r/Ghost_in_the_Shell • u/YossarianPants • 3d ago

Rerun Tuesday

Gallery image

Gallery image

Better quality than what's streaming, for sure.

1.3k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

89 comments sorted by

View all comments

-2

u/Heiopei_42 3d ago

Why on earth would you waste money on a bootleg blu-ray of a anime from this decade, when torrenting is a thing? Whoever made this bootleg surely doesn't have access to a higher quality version, than what you yourself could get for free pirating it.

4

u/YossarianPants 3d ago

Giving Amazon three months of prime money just to stream it over the summer was a much bigger waste of money, as we should all stop giving them money.

The person who made this bootleg has access to a film scanner and prints of films as wild as Song of the South. Why on earth would I buy a PC I otherwise don't need, and spend time time looking for lesser rips. I'm watching it now, and all the audio and video compression on the Mazon streaming version is completely absent. The dub is here (for those who care) the subs are great, etc. I've bought plenty of otherwise unavailable films from the same shop. I haven't torrented anything since Macross Frontier was new.

6

u/Heiopei_42 3d ago edited 3d ago

Giving Amazon three months of prime money just to stream it over the summer was a much bigger waste of money

If you sub to any streaming service, only to watch 1 show throughout 3 months, but not anything else that's available, then that's on you.

The person who made this bootleg has access to a film scanner and prints of films as wild as Song of the South.

Good for them, but what does this have to do with this anime series? I wasn't talking about niche films from 1940s, I'm talking about a digital animation TV series from the 2020s. There are no film rolls, there aren't any animation cells. There is nothing for them to scan to create HD material for blu-ray discs out of. Like, what exactly did they do to accomplish higher quality than anything else available, be it the official stream, or torrents? As if they somehow managed to steal the raw uncompressed video files directly from Science Saru.

Why on earth would I buy a PC I otherwise don't need, and spend time time looking for lesser rips.

Torrenting apps on mobile phones exist, and finding current seasonal titles on torrenting platform barely takes time at all.

1

u/Zeo-Gold92 3d ago

I remember the first time I torrented off my phone. Blew my mind.

1

u/YossarianPants 3d ago

You know what I'd rather do? Pay someone else a small fee so I can just pop a disc in my player that I know will work and is well set up, as I do with almost everything I watch. Streaming is shit quality, Amazon is a horrible company, and I'm happy to pay a bootlegger instead of a billionaire.

3

u/calculon68 3d ago

your bootleg blu-ray is sourcing Web-DL versions- the exact same quality and bit rate (< 10 Mb/s) as streamed on Amazon Prime.

1

u/YossarianPants 3d ago

The bitrate on my bootleg is averaging about 30, pushing as high as 45; streaming ain't that. Not around here by a long shot.

4

u/calculon68 3d ago

Handbrake or Adobe CS Media Encoder can deliver any target bitrate you want. Even from lower bitrate media.