Please don't debate with me over what I'm about to say... I'm just letting everyone know where I stand on this issue, so here goes...
I for one prefer to watch dramas on the TV set, period. My PC is for e-mail, programming, word processing, home finance, web surfing, and video editing and archiving. My PC is not part of my entertainment system.
When I first started capturing video content about 8 months ago, I was trying to get a feel for what Jdorama fans wanted. Nowadays, I don't care what people prefer. I capture exclusively on MPEG-2 and MPEG-2 for myself and myself only. I trade with others via snail-mail if they want my captures. My listings explain in great detail what formats my captures are in. I also retain the original captures. In many of my snail-mail trades, my clients have the same preferences as I. Some of them prefer that I convert the AVI containers to MPEG-x so they can view it on their TV. And I cringe and keep my mouth shut when they ask me of this. They also like permanent subtitles burned into the video. They don't like the subtitles on a separate file because, as you probably see in d-addicts, it involves the PC's operating system too much, and most major-brand DVD players can't play subtitle files.
In return, I HATE receiving re-rips. When I snail-mail traded with someone awhile back, the GTO series I received was a VCD re-rip of jem's DivX release. The quality was simply HORRIBLE!!!!
As far as p2p on-line trading, I upload MPEG-2 and MPEG-2 exclusively. Simply put, if people don't like working with those formats, then they shouldn't download my captures. I do, however, have stuff like UTSR that are quite unique, so if people decide to pass up on my A- graded version of UTSR simply because of the 750MB file size, then they'll have to settle on the D+ graded 150MB file size version of UTSR in DivX format. Hey, that's their loss! Ironically, these complainers still download my captures, so I'm not going to change. If they re-rip it to XviD or DivX, that's fine with me because they downloaded all 750MB of it, and therefore I'm already out of the loop.
--- groink
I for one prefer to watch dramas on the TV set, period. My PC is for e-mail, programming, word processing, home finance, web surfing, and video editing and archiving. My PC is not part of my entertainment system.
When I first started capturing video content about 8 months ago, I was trying to get a feel for what Jdorama fans wanted. Nowadays, I don't care what people prefer. I capture exclusively on MPEG-2 and MPEG-2 for myself and myself only. I trade with others via snail-mail if they want my captures. My listings explain in great detail what formats my captures are in. I also retain the original captures. In many of my snail-mail trades, my clients have the same preferences as I. Some of them prefer that I convert the AVI containers to MPEG-x so they can view it on their TV. And I cringe and keep my mouth shut when they ask me of this. They also like permanent subtitles burned into the video. They don't like the subtitles on a separate file because, as you probably see in d-addicts, it involves the PC's operating system too much, and most major-brand DVD players can't play subtitle files.
In return, I HATE receiving re-rips. When I snail-mail traded with someone awhile back, the GTO series I received was a VCD re-rip of jem's DivX release. The quality was simply HORRIBLE!!!!
As far as p2p on-line trading, I upload MPEG-2 and MPEG-2 exclusively. Simply put, if people don't like working with those formats, then they shouldn't download my captures. I do, however, have stuff like UTSR that are quite unique, so if people decide to pass up on my A- graded version of UTSR simply because of the 750MB file size, then they'll have to settle on the D+ graded 150MB file size version of UTSR in DivX format. Hey, that's their loss! Ironically, these complainers still download my captures, so I'm not going to change. If they re-rip it to XviD or DivX, that's fine with me because they downloaded all 750MB of it, and therefore I'm already out of the loop.
--- groink