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1 Apr 30, 2008 at 08:44 by Rycon

Bank Job isnt all that great. Cloverfield I thought was good. Untracble is for retards who know nothing about computers..

lol ‘I hacked his wifi’ .. from hundreds of miles away?

2 Apr 30, 2008 at 08:55 by RandomGuy

I rather liked the Bank Job….
Cloverfield was dissappointing and yeah untraceable wasn’t great, I liked the end though and one the messages read: “a genius has died today” and “haha you got beat off a girl” I actually laughed!

3 Apr 30, 2008 at 09:03 by Somebody2

For movie downloaders, for optimal quality check out movies encoded with H264, it is in MP4 container but the quality is amazing for its size. A 600mb H264 has higher quality than a 1.4gb Xvid encoded movie.

For famous H264 rippers check out: unisonband (unisonband111 if you’re using demonoid) and my favorite NewArtRiot. You can back up your own DVD collection using handbrake to encode your movies with H264 easily and with amazing quality.

Xvid is outdated, move forward with technology!!!

*Spread the message, makes me sad when I see such high quality movies with such low seeds, at least download one movie or rip one using handbrake and see for yourself*

4 Apr 30, 2008 at 09:07 by TotalWimp

The Bank Job was not all that good
Untraceable was decent, but unrealistic.
Horton Hears a Who! was quite funny
Cloverfield really sucked if you asked me.

5 Apr 30, 2008 at 09:29 by KarmaCorps

this shows perfectly the turds hollywood is crapping out every month.. I mean seriously where are the “apocalypse now’s” “the Terminator 2’s” or “Aliens” of yesterday. instead we’re givem AVP2, 27 Dresses and shitty cloverfield.

Pathetic.

6 Apr 30, 2008 at 09:51 by Anonymous

@ 3…

Well said, time to move on methinks.

7 Apr 30, 2008 at 10:11 by jds

cloverfield would have been good if the camera would have stopped the excessive shaking. I understand their intent to seem realistic but a line needs to drawn between realistic looking and watchable content. Many people who watched this movie could not concentrate on the film due to vertigo issues (sea sickness feeling).

8 Apr 30, 2008 at 10:42 by KarmaCorps

You can over-analyse and pull a film to pieces looking for it’s good bits, but it’s still be a piece of shit at the end of the day.

9 Apr 30, 2008 at 11:09 by Moviefan

I haven’t see the The Bankjob yet Because I don’t like Jason Statham.Untraceable is not bad…

10 Apr 30, 2008 at 11:22 by nurgle

no, untraceable was terrible … Totally unrealistic.

@3 I agree, handbreak is really good. Its a free program that works on all platforms. It even includes the source code to compile it into your kernal if you want. Good stuff H264 all the way! :)

11 Apr 30, 2008 at 12:21 by lolwhat

as a huge zombie fan i must say Diary of the Dead was a big disappointment.

12 Apr 30, 2008 at 12:38 by Crandom

@3: How can you even begin to say H264 is better than xvid?!?!? It is made by apple, is laggy, does not support hardware acceleration, has large file sizes, is liable to corruption, suffers terrible motion bluring and does not scale well.

Xvid/Divx changed video for ever, and is widely renowned as being the best video codec on the market. For example, I tried to convert a 768×432 movie (StelThisFilmII) to 640×480 and it changed from 640mb to 924mb. How? The resolution, sound quality and fps were all the same, yet the file ends up massively bigger. If anything H.264 is outdated even though it is newer than xvid. And it’s open source, which places it further ahead than H.246 any day.

Again, I really am shocked at your lack of understanding, it really does amaze me.

13 Apr 30, 2008 at 12:47 by Fugazi

I liked The Bank Job. Nice to see, that they did’t have to show up armed to the teeth to get something done. They just outwit the system and use the established mechanisms for their own ends.

14 Apr 30, 2008 at 13:25 by Fonzi122

With handbrake, if you set the constant quality above 80% it causes the file to be larger than the DVD. Obviously no. 12 set it at 100%.

Just set the bitrate at 1000kb/s and u get perfect quality and file sizes like 660mb for a 80 minute movie (without reducing resolution, leaving it at Anamorphic RAR).

LOL HANDBRAKE WAS MADE BY APPLE xD. So apple endorses piracy?

15 Apr 30, 2008 at 13:25 by Drandom

@12
H264 is a standard codec part of the MPEG-4 suite. It’s not made by Apple, they just use it since they now how good it is.

It’s a codec quite difficult to master, since it has a lot of input parameters, so that’s why you failed horribly using it (well, it certainly isn’t you fault but the default settings of your encoder were obviously bad)

And converting a lossy video (xvid) to another lossy format (H264 can do lossless as well, depending on parameters) is really not a good idea…

H264 is video only, no sound involved in the process. For that you should check AAC.

You can have hardware accelerators for H264, they are coming to the market… (e.g. one included in the ipods).

Last but not least, the most used H264 encoder is x264, another open source project used by almost every ripping software.

So yes, xvid is good, but if used correctly, H264 is by far superior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264

16 Apr 30, 2008 at 13:29 by Davy Jones

@12

First of all, how can Handbrake be open source and made by apple at the same time? It’s multi platform meaning it is available FOR apple. (and linux and microsoft)

Second of all, have u ever checked out a movie with H264 these days and compared it to Xvid? Cuz if you speak out of experience I’d understand but its obvious you’re speaking out of ignorance. Check out a 1.4gb movie and a H264 700mb then talk.

And there is this amazing thing on Handbrake that is called QUALITY CONTROL. You see, you type numbers or select the quality or select the target file size to choose how big the dvd file is gonna be…you can fit movies for iPods and PSP, why wudn’t it support small file sizes.

The reason its laggy is cuz ur PC under performs, sure it takes longer than Xvid, maybe, im just guessing here, maybe…CUZ IT GIVES BETTER QUALITY?

Lemme help you out a bit, go to wikipedia and research these things: open source, bitrate (changing resolution isn’t as important as bitrate in file sizes), how to type numbers into a GUI, and how to use wikipedia.

Your lack of understanding amazes me.

*Future reference, please people do ur research, its idiots like no. 12 that can cause new and improved technology to fail due to their ignorance.

17 Apr 30, 2008 at 13:43 by Ji

With the exception of The Bank Job, everyone of them are just pure shit, poor endings, poor story, no wonder hollywood is losing so much money when there giving us shit like this, ofc we aint going to by the movies on dvd

18 Apr 30, 2008 at 14:07 by mz

I liked The Bank Job and Cloverfield, though neither was fantastic. The rest I haven’t watched.

19 Apr 30, 2008 at 14:40 by The LOL-maker

Bank Job looks promising

Untraceable looks like ur usual thriller

Horton Hears a Who was good for the kids(not rly a dvd rip tho, just a rly good r5)

Teeth’s plot makes me LOL, think im gonna watch it

Cloverfield was decent

27 Dresses is dangerous, it performs surgery on you while you watch, it replaces all Y chromosomes with another X.

20 Apr 30, 2008 at 16:15 by Concerned

Compared to other movies since Christmas the Bank job was good. Cloverfield wasn’t bad - but it took a while to put a few of the pieces together the first time you watch it. Untraceable was really a good movie - but very predictable - maybe not so much specifics but the ending. PS I love you is a classic example of a chick flick, those who like them will like it, those that don’t - won’t.

21 Apr 30, 2008 at 16:20 by Crandom

@16: Learn to spell. Respect the community and YOU do the research. H.264 is a proprietarytechnology developed by ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). They are NOT open source and not free as in “libre”. As you probably don’t know, MPEG is one of the most famous of propriety copyright holders, which is why you have to download gstreamer-fluendo or gstreamer-ffmepg when installing linux and gstreamer to play mp3 files. I mean, have you ever used linux?

You say that it is open source because a program converts video into it? Thats ridiculous! LAME converts to mp3, yet mp3 is not open source. Same for OpenOffice.org, pdfReader and more.

As for the apple thing, they are the only people who have decided to use it on a large scale and have an agreement with MPEG to use it. No other major players have chosen H.264 and so Apple can be seen as the only people keeping H.264 alive.

Xvid has constantly beaten H.264 on multiple scaling tests; you can deny H.264 does not scale well. It also lacks double layer tri-fixed point deblocking like xvid has.

Finally, H.264 was released in 2003 and has changed very little, where as the latest version of Xvid (1.1.3) was released in 2007.

The only benefit of H.264 is it requires little processing power to decode as it is very sparsely encoded, so can be used to display HD media well. But so can Xvid, and with dual and quad core support coming soon it will become viable.

The community supports Xvid and will not easily go H.264, so there is little point trying to push forward and inferior technology.

P.S. It is bad form to quote your own criticisms - I will the same criticism as last time; “Your lack of understanding amazes me.”

22 Apr 30, 2008 at 16:26 by Crandom

Citations (Wikipedia):

“In countries where software patent regulations are upheld, the vendors of products which make use of H.264/AVC are expected to pay patent licensing royalties for the patented technology that their products use.”

“Discussions are often held regarding the legality of free software implementations of codecs like H.264, especially concerning the legal use of GNU LGPL and GPL implementations of H.264 and other patented codecs.”

23 Apr 30, 2008 at 16:44 by Konstantin

The Bank Job is good if you just want a straight shot of entertainment.

24 Apr 30, 2008 at 16:48 by hypex

What’s so wrong about Cloverfield?
It was creative and full of action, doesn’t matter how it’s filmed, it became more realistic that way.
Perfections :P
Give it a try.
Wanna se Diary.

25 Apr 30, 2008 at 17:07 by Hobbyist

Gotta love this bunch of hobby criminals who pulled The Bank Job for how they play their cards.

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