Posted by Capitalismuntamed on 01/25/08 11:36

On 2008-01-22 09:11:28 +1100, Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> said:

>> Lions for
>> Lambs).
>
> I've seen those multiple movies-per-DVD discs before.
>
> About half of them contained different movies than what the packaging
> indicated. Many of the movies weren't even in English - they were dubbed
> in French, German, or other languages, with fixed subtitles you couldn't
> turn off (sometimes, the subtitles weren't in English either.) Some titles
> were obviously filmed on a handicam in a theater. Mmmm...nothing says
> "quality" like hearing the camera operator snoring into the mic. Speaking
> of quality, DVD these ain't. They're essentially highly compressed and
> re-encoded VCDs, making VHS tape look pristine by comparison.
>
> I can almost understand buying garbage like this when you were back in
> Afghanistan, but in the US? There's no reason to pirate, unless you're just
> a scum bag. As I mentioned previously, many libraries will rent DVD - even
> new releases - for free and unlike these crummy 6-movies-crammed-on-a-disc,
> they look tons better AND are legal

Yes, and you can make perfect FREE copies of them! Bittorrent is really
good too!

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