Up there talking bout "high quality" HDMI cables
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Bring yourself down to an electronics store ( the kind that is run by a 50-ish year old guy who's an electronics buff - who sells capacitors, transistors, solder, and has testing equipment. )
Ask the guy his opinion on HDMI cables - and cables in-particular. If you need proof of equality - the guy usually has some meters & signal generators there. It'll prove his point scientifically.
Needless to say - good cables aren't expensive - they're just often overpriced at rip-off prices. A decent cable shouldn't cost you more than $20. It's just wires - wrapped in a layer or two foil - packaged up in a plastic jacket. Oh, and there's a piece of metal & plastic on the end of it. Not exactly high-tech. If you pay more than $20 for a wire -
[ Just a note here. I know all about twisting - signal balancing that it does, interference, solid core vs twisted core internal wires, etc etc etc. I'm keeping the argument simple. I prefer simplicity. ]
well -
You're the guy who PT Barnum talked about.( Especially if you own any
Monster Cable products - especially that. Monster cable is a brand of idiocy. If you own that shit - you are screaming "I'M A MORON" as loud as you can - to the point where your lungs are about to implode. )
[ Just another caveat here - if you buy the $20 wire from a store that sells $2 wires - it's going to be very, very different than if you buy the $20 wire from a store that sells a $100 wire.
The store that sells the $100 wire - is selling you the $2 wire for $20. ]
There never was a debate. Just off-topic B.S.ing.
-Like it or not, some people still use XviD for playback. That dead horse is lookin' deader all the time.
-Like it or not, fansub groups prefer encoding with H.264. That dead horse is also lookin' deader all the time.
Geez, it really reeks in here!
Makes me hungry. Could you please add a little S-MPEG4 v2 with that WMV?
Some FLV and AMV might also help a bit.
Wow, lol, I see this thread has exploded into one mad debate.
Personally - I'd vouch for lower quality releases - not horrible, but half of what it should be. It's fansub - it should be fansub, not collector grade.
From my day, we encouraged each-other to go out and really support what you were getting ... vs just getting it. As in - if ya like it that much, go buy it. Now I'm seeing arguments here about all of the DVD style features aren't in the downloadable package. Don't you think that will cause ... just a little bit of pain to the industry we all love here?
I mean - even when I was crazily buying stuff - it was literally 4X more expensive. Now you get whole series for like - nothing.
Guess though - I come from a dying era. :|
