• maxprime@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I’d rather wait, or pay to see it in a theatre. Every time.

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    3 months ago

    If I want to see a movie so badly, I’d rather go to the cinema rather than watch a low-quality camrip.

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    3 months ago

    I’d rather wait for at least a 1080 webrip than to suffer through the cruddy audio and visuals of a cam. Heck, I don’t even like going to the theatre, why would I pretend to do that in 480p with early 2000’s cellphone audio?

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    3 months ago

    All of them have really bad audio and as such, they’re completely useless.

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        3 months ago

        TS releases do have good audio. Cams in general have a lot of visual problems though; poor color accuracy, warping, incomplete frames, sometimes people moving around, things like that. Also pretty much every cam I’ve seen lately has been covered in ads for sketchy gambling sites throughout the entire runtime. None of this makes for a good viewing experience.

        Also, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cam with subtitles available.

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    3 months ago

    Reminds me of the good ol’ days in the 90s. Watching cam recordings and people standing up or taking loudly the entire movie.

    Haven’t watched a cam recording in decades. Don’t plan on doing that again.

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    3 months ago

    I ended up using a cam for a movie from 2009 to check to see if the movie had differences between the theater version and the DVD release. It didn’t but it was neat that I could, 15 years later.

    So I respect it, but also, good god will I never actually watch them for the actual movie itself.

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    3 months ago

    Back in the early days, watching a cammed movie was tolerable because the 480p rips that we’d otherwise get were so heavily compressed that there’d be hardly any step up in quality. It was also usually the fastest way I could find a new movie.

    These days, releases get leaked from inside the studio all the time, at full quality, so there’s not really any legitimate need for cammed movies anymore.

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      3 months ago

      I would not say “all the time” at least the movies I watch, but it is mostly only some months (if even) until a movie is available on some streaming service and gets ripped in 4k

  • K0W4LSK1@links.hackliberty.org
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    3 months ago

    Usually I hate them, but there’s this deadpool vs wolverine cam edited on my private tracker. It has blown me away. I swear if I didnt know it was a cam I wouldn’t have guessed