Um...is Chorus promoting piracy?

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Zepanda66

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#271682 22-May-2020 10:37

I came across this interesting promotional thing from chorus on facebook promoting hyperfibre. I hope these were legal downloads through Disney+ lol.

https://www.chorus.co.nz/blog/fibre-fast-whats-around-corner

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#2489280 22-May-2020 10:39

I think they mean downloading it in FHD or possibly 4K legitimately from a streaming/download service...

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#2489288 22-May-2020 10:48

I think Disney+ only supports downloading to mobile devices, so is there a phone or tablet that can store 1.6TB? Is there another way of legally downloading Marvel movies in Blu-ray quality?

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#2489302 22-May-2020 10:56

Maybe individually from the Microsoft store?

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#2489303 22-May-2020 10:59

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#2489305 22-May-2020 11:00

Does any legitimate service offer the download of Blu Ray Remux quality?

Regardless that (if true) is very impressive. Average speed of 234 MB/s or 1877Mb/s. That's well faster than the write speed of a typical 7200rpm drive, and and the 1.65Tb size is bigger than typical for SSD's in residential settings.

Also the references to Wifi 6, I suspect they used a "Wifi 6 router" but plunged in a hardwire. Real world proformance testing seems to imply that Wifi 6 Tops out about at 1.5 Tbps in the real world.

https://www.cnet.com/news/how-fast-is-wi-fi-6-our-latest-speed-test-results/

Of course does beg the question of the need to download 50 hours of content in 2 hours. I guess somebody could be downloading content to consume over their holiday in a location with poor internet...

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#2489308 22-May-2020 11:04

Wakrak:

Maybe individually from the Microsoft store?

It doesn't list the UHD file sizes, but a 2:15 1080p movies is 8.22GB, quite a bit lower bit rate than is typical on Blu Ray disks.

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#2489311 22-May-2020 11:06

Scott3:

Of course does beg the question of the need to download 50 hours of content in 2 hours. I guess somebody could be downloading content to consume over their holiday in a location with poor internet...

Why bother going on holiday if you are going to spend it all plopped in front of the telly?

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Zepanda66

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#2489320 22-May-2020 11:13

Scott3:

Does any legitimate service offer the download of Blu Ray Remux quality?

Thats why I asked as far as I know none do. Even Disney+ doesnt do remux.

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#2489333 22-May-2020 11:28

Rikkitic:

Why bother going on holiday if you are going to spend it all plopped in front of the telly?

I went on holiday in Northland to a beach and it bucketed down for the five days, no TV signal, no internet, just the barest hint of cellular data. With some other couples and about eight kids....

The most beaten up board games suddenly had quite an appeal!!

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#2489342 22-May-2020 11:54

Is my simplistic approach wrong that their maths doesn't add up

1650 GB of movies across the 23 films in the MCU is about 71.7GB per movie, thats more than even a dual layer Blu-ray can hold (50bg right?), 4k discs may hold more, unsure, but maybe they also d/loaded all the extra feature discs too?

Also don't forget the Blu-rays hold the uncompressed audio tracks (either Dolby or DTS versions with possibly atmos/DTS-x), whereas no streaming platform offers such high bandwidth audio, so again, cast doubts on either their claim or the legitimacy of the d/load source

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#2489349 22-May-2020 12:22

sen8or:

1650 GB of movies across the 23 films in the MCU is about 71.7GB per movie, thats more than even a dual layer Blu-ray can hold (50bg right?), 4k discs may hold more, unsure, but maybe they also d/loaded all the extra feature discs too?

71GB is in the upper range I'd expect for a UHD title with a single video and audio stream. I have one that is 79.9GB.

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#2489353 22-May-2020 12:29

mudguard:

Rikkitic:

Why bother going on holiday if you are going to spend it all plopped in front of the telly?

I went on holiday in Northland to a beach and it bucketed down for the five days, no TV signal, no internet, just the barest hint of cellular data. With some other couples and about eight kids....

The most beaten up board games suddenly had quite an appeal!!

@mudguard What part of Northland? I want to make sure I never visit it

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#2489968 23-May-2020 10:29

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@mudguard What part of Northland? I want to make sure I never visit it

Ha, it was a bay in Tutukaka somewhere. Oh for a TV with USB and a stick full of movies.