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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The turnaround from screen to home media has gotten short enough to where it’s fine to wait for a high quality version. Cams were good in the 80s when you bought the VHS tapes from some dude selling them out of a box down in the subway. Though the odds of brining home a blank were pretty good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel bad because someone paid for a ticket and sat there filming for 90 minutes but I can't stand them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah bad way to enjoy the film...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not worth the storage space. I'll wait for digital/physical release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

plus watching a movie in the theatre is always a nice experience.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

People still do this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

considering a lot of the slop people really want to watch is focused on hi def production and special effects I don't even understand how it still exists

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Given that some films are getting post-release edits before they appear on streaming or physical media, it might be a good idea just from an archival perspective.

I'm not a good judge of piracy methods for consumption, as I am currently willing to pay their prices or do without.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Well, its the thought that counts I guess

[–] [email protected] 68 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

Patience is a virtue

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

I cannot fathom why anyone would want to subject themselves to such utter horror.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even TS releases?

The audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source (often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesync

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Look for deadpool vs wolverine cam/TS v2 has subtitles and its actually a good cam. I didnt believe til I watched it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I have watched them but usually I wait for HD.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Like it doesn't exist for me. Same for MD

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

Eh, I'll wait for a better version.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ya'll grammar police need to chill

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you're going to be using Black American culture, you should at least try do it right.

And, no, it's not just English. This was popularized through Black Southerners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just to be sure, I mispelled it on purpose in reply to @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I know it's probably a typo, but it's worth correcting in case people don't know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Hats off to those who do it. I don't need to see things when they're new, so I will generally just wait until there's a home release or streaming rip. I'm not a 4k guy or whatever, I'm down with DVD quality or worse, I still wanna see it in a better format than a cam. But there's clearly people who want it, so I'm glad people are out there doing the work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't listen to this weed smoking wanker. Their copy is half French and half sign language in Korean.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Isnt that how all movies are deafblindFrenchKoreantorrents.ru tells me thats all there is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I have no idea. I throw money in a burn barrel in front of movie studios and they mail me direct to laserdisc masterpieces.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

😮never thought about the archive function of CAM releases

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What do I think of cams?

RIP DVDSCR's

[–] [email protected] 131 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They look like crap, I won't watch them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Same and I have pretty much have no opinion outside of that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Telesync, maybe

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