The idea behind 'no downloaded footage' is based on fansubs and RAWs, which are both problematic for legal reasons, not legit storefronts like iTunes. However, like the compromised-quality reputation of fansubs (which is another reason for the rule, yes, but not the most important reason), the quality of most video download stores like iTunes or Amazon will not be comparable at all to a DVD copy (although the HD trailers on the Quicktime site, and presumably HD purchases from the iTunes Store, are a big exception to that rule - they still won't compare to Blu-ray, though).
In iTunes' case, even though they use H.264, the featureset that Apple uses is pretty crippled, and even at that would be easily outperformed by other encoders operating at the same featureset - this means that it's going to have some rather visible problems (again, exempting the HD stuff, as downscaling them virtually eradicates that issue).
DarkPhoenix22 wrote:The idea behind 'no downloaded footage' is based on fansubs and RAWs, which are both problematic for legal reasons, not legit storefronts like iTunes. However, like the compromised-quality reputation of fansubs (which is another reason for the rule, yes, but not the most important reason), the quality of most video download stores like iTunes or Amazon will not be comparable at all to a DVD copy (although the HD trailers on the Quicktime site, and presumably HD purchases from the iTunes Store, are a big exception to that rule - they still won't compare to Blu-ray, though).
In iTunes' case, even though they use H.264, the featureset that Apple uses is pretty crippled, and even at that would be easily outperformed by other encoders operating at the same featureset - this means that it's going to have some rather visible problems (again, exempting the HD stuff, as downscaling them virtually eradicates that issue).
So, basically you're saying that iTunes DOES have some anime, but the quality isn't that great????
Daniel_BMS wrote:Have you tried Netflix?
Scintilla wrote:I always thought Greencine had better selection when it came to animé?
Daniel_BMS wrote:You haven't heard of http://www.netflix.com ?! Well I haven't heard of Green Cine. Thank you Scintilla.
I admire your idea to make AMVS with graphic novels.
Castor Troy wrote:Um, I think the topic creator lives in England where he can't have access to netflix or greencine.
Qyot27 wrote:
2) You're NOT running the newest version of iTunes (or possibly even many of the minor versions prior to the switch from iTunes 8 to iTunes 9, I can't remember which particular minor version the cutoff occurred on), because the decryption software doesn't work with it yet, and you'll be SOL.
gotenks794 wrote:Qyot27 wrote:
2) You're NOT running the newest version of iTunes (or possibly even many of the minor versions prior to the switch from iTunes 8 to iTunes 9, I can't remember which particular minor version the cutoff occurred on), because the decryption software doesn't work with it yet, and you'll be SOL.
There are always ways. The easiest of which (but perhaps worst quality way) being screen recording.
gotenks794 wrote:There are always ways. The easiest of which (but perhaps worst quality way) being screen recording.
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