Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Palinov Jensen » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:38 am

Chimerix wrote:
I like the increased permanence and reliability of physical media. I like the process of sorting thru a shelf filled with discs to decide what I want to see. I like menus and chapter markers. I like driving the film from across the room with a remote control from a comfy chair. I like watching on a full-sized TV with decent sound as opposed to a monitor less than 2 feet from my nose.


My feelings exactly! It's the same reason why I continue to buy physical media including CDs, with Increased permanence and reliability being the biggest factor.

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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Fred588 » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:41 am

Chimerix wrote:
Fred588 wrote:I think the future is in downloads, and almost certainly of individual scenes.


Little players like Apple and Adobe agree with you. Personally, I buck the trend. I like the increased permanence and reliability of physical media. I like the process of sorting thru a shelf filled with discs to decide what I want to see. I like menus and chapter markers. I like driving the film from across the room with a remote control from a comfy chair. I like watching on a full-sized TV with decent sound as opposed to a monitor less than 2 feet from my nose.


I understand. I dislike the concept of renting my software by the month, for example. As far as scenes are concerned, however, it is entirely feasible to acquire them by download and then make your own disks, menu systems, etc.
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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Fred588 » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:44 am

Chimerix wrote:
Fred588 wrote:I think the future is in downloads, and almost certainly of individual scenes.


Little players like Apple and Adobe agree with you. Personally, I buck the trend. I like the increased permanence and reliability of physical media. I like the process of sorting thru a shelf filled with discs to decide what I want to see. I like menus and chapter markers. I like driving the film from across the room with a remote control from a comfy chair. I like watching on a full-sized TV with decent sound as opposed to a monitor less than 2 feet from my nose.

I think I would prefer to have the film, disks, tapes, or whatever, along with a glass of wine, delivered to me by several topless models.
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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Chimerix » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:48 am

Fred588 wrote:Please correct me if I am wrong but its my understanding that the actual media used to deliver video has nothing to do with its quality, except to the extent it limits resolution or file size. A traditional DVD is, of course, limited to standard definition but its not the DVD media itself. A DVD ROM is just a storage device. The same is true of a file delivered on a memory stick or on line. What ultimately determines the quality is the resolution (2k vs 4k) and the bit rate. The QD resolution does produce some enormous files but if one can download them that should not be an issue. Such files can then be stored on a hard drive or anything else one wishes to use.


A file will look the same regardless of the delivery vehicle; that's true. But what happens, at least in today's world, is that a blu-ray (or DVD) represents a captive amount of storage. There's 50GB of storage there and a 90-minute movie; there's no reason not to render the movie out at a very high data rate and make it look amaze-balls. For online delivery, tho... the typical household user can't download 50GB of data in a reasonable time (4 1/2 hours on the connection I have right now), nor reliably stream something with such high data rates. Compression is the "compromise."

The day may be coming where transfer rates are so high and compression is so clear that we're watching 16K video in real time and transferring multi-terabyte files in the blink of an eye. Today, though,
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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Chimerix » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:49 am

Fred588 wrote:I think I would prefer to have the film, disks, tapes, or whatever, along with a glass of wine, delivered to me by several topless models.



Well, of course!
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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Fred588 » Thu Jul 05, 2018 10:59 am

Chimerix wrote:
Fred588 wrote:Please correct me if I am wrong but its my understanding that the actual media used to deliver video has nothing to do with its quality, except to the extent it limits resolution or file size. A traditional DVD is, of course, limited to standard definition but its not the DVD media itself. A DVD ROM is just a storage device. The same is true of a file delivered on a memory stick or on line. What ultimately determines the quality is the resolution (2k vs 4k) and the bit rate. The QD resolution does produce some enormous files but if one can download them that should not be an issue. Such files can then be stored on a hard drive or anything else one wishes to use.


A file will look the same regardless of the delivery vehicle; that's true. But what happens, at least in today's world, is that a blu-ray (or DVD) represents a captive amount of storage. There's 50GB of storage there and a 90-minute movie; there's no reason not to render the movie out at a very high data rate and make it look amaze-balls. For online delivery, tho... the typical household user can't download 50GB of data in a reasonable time (4 1/2 hours on the connection I have right now), nor reliably stream something with such high data rates. Compression is the "compromise."

The day may be coming where transfer rates are so high and compression is so clear that we're watching 16K video in real time and transferring multi-terabyte files in the blink of an eye. Today, though,


As I think I hinted at before, I have all the equipment and most of the software to do Blue ray disks; the only thing lacking is the software to make the menu system. It would be interesting, not to mention useful, to know if other people would want this.
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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby dlodoski » Thu Jul 05, 2018 1:03 pm

Chimerix wrote: ....I like the increased permanence and reliability of physical media. I like the process of sorting thru a shelf filled with discs to decide what I want to see. I like menus and chapter markers. I like driving the film from across the room with a remote control from a comfy chair. I like watching on a full-sized TV with decent sound as opposed to a monitor less than 2 feet from my nose.

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Re: Professional Quicksand Videos...On VHS?

Postby Duncan Edwards » Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:56 am

Chimerix wrote: ....I like the increased permanence and reliability of physical media. I like the process of sorting thru a shelf filled with discs to decide what I want to see. I like menus and chapter markers. I like driving the film from across the room with a remote control from a comfy chair. I like watching on a full-sized TV with decent sound as opposed to a monitor less than 2 feet from my nose.


Can't argue with any of that. The big thing for me that makes streaming or downloading video such a godsend is not having to physically hide the stuff. For those of us in compromised situations who have to keep it hidden a full size VHS tape was an absolute nightmare. From very early on I had to keep stuff in a remote storage space that made retrieval difficult. Then I had to take Dave's beautiful full color covers and turn them inside out just in case. Then after I had so many of the things I had to have both a local hidden location for immediate use and off-site. The problems are obvious. Now I can keep the entire MPV collection in the cloud, on my pc, anywhere and view anyway I want. My latest is to run it from my personal cloud and mirror the image from my iPhone on my big screen tv when the situation permits. VHS was not a very flexible media for viewing.
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