Caltrops - Enter the Matrix





	[quote name="Horrible Gelatinous Blob"]Back when I first started using BitTorrent to download movies, I'd download anything. Handcam, shaky-cam, foreign cam with subs, whatever. Didn't matter. Free movies! Then I got more discriminating, and wouldn't touch anything lower than a domestic telesync. A lot of times, a telesync or telecine would never appear, so I got used to waiting for the DVD rip, and it wasn't long before that was my basement. I'd mess around with R5 screeners on occasion, but I held the line on DVD rips for a long, long time. Shortly after I got back from Paris, a friend and I were chatting and he asked me where I got my high-def downloads from. I told him that I didn't download high-def rips, since they were too big and couldn't be played on my TV easily. He acted shocked, and then mocked me for not knowing about the explosion of popularity x264 has experienced. "Well, that's all fine and good," I sneered. "But how am I supposed to play mkv files on my television?" And then he directed me to mkv2vob. Ever since then, I can't convince myself download anything less than a 720p Blu-ray rip, no matter how much I want to see the movie in question. Once I figured out that I didn't even have to copy the file over to the PS3; I could just drop it into a shared folder and stream it directly to the television with no waiting, it got even worse. Even TV shows, with which I used to be quite satisfied with xvid encodes, are now subject to the constantly raising bar. I ask you, Caltrops: how have your tastes in piracy changed over time?[/quote]