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Answerman - Record Town and Media Play

You can't compare the two imo. Interns are interns. They aren't professionals or even entry-level. They have no degree in the field, let alone real world work experience. It is honestly is an opportunity for them because under no under circumstances would someone with no knowledge or experience get the access and training they receive from whoever they intern with.

When people say interns should be paid, I think they should ask why should an intern be hired. They have no experience and they don't even have education. They would always be a poor quality candidate by default and likely the worst candidate that would realistically apply.

@leafy sea dragon:

The main reason for the internet speeds being crap in the US is them being monopolies - for instance, Google recently started rolling out here and Time Warner Cable shot our connection speed up to about three times what we had(from 80Mbs to over 200Mbs). Turns out banning competition has the expected results.

Which brings me to the reason why home video ain't going nowhere anytime soon: not everybody can get good internet, period. My father lives in small town out in the sticks where you can buy faster internet options from TWC, but you won't get faster internet; DSL only works if you're so close to the base station and satellite has crippling bandwidth caps with high prices. If you live too far out, you can still be stuck with dial-up.

@leafy sea dragon:

The main reason for the internet speeds being crap in the US is them being monopolies - for instance, Google recently started rolling out here and Time Warner Cable shot our connection speed up to about three times what we had(from 80Mbs to over 200Mbs). Turns out banning competition has the expected results.

Which brings me to the reason why home video ain't going nowhere anytime soon: not everybody can get good internet, period. My father lives in small town out in the sticks where you can buy faster internet options from TWC, but you won't get faster internet; DSL only works if you're so close to the base station and satellite has crippling bandwidth caps with high prices. If you live too far out, you can still be stuck with dial-up.

What everybody singing the dirges of physical media forgets is the art of perspective: yes, your little bubble might be free from issues that cause problems for streaming everything, but rural areas aren't so lucky - and America's rural.

prime_pm wrote:

You still have to sit through the [expletive] ads for TV shows even if you're a paid HuluPlus member. There is no win.

You could always subscribe to Funimation, The Anime Network, or Crunchyroll instead. Then you can watch all your anime ad-free.

I have a Hulu Plus subscription myself, which I use to mostly watch US TV shows, and whenever there is a commercial break I only get 1 or 2 short ads. Considering the amount of content Hulu has, a few short ads are easy enough to deal with.

In Europe, Central America, South America, and much of Asia (I don't know about Australia or any other region I didn't mention), these connections are public. Any service is allowed to use the country's entire network, and they can be shared anywhere. In some countries, the government sets them up, and in some countries, private companies set them up but must allow competing services to use them too. As a result, competition is fierce, and they can get blazing Internet at relatively low prices. By comparison, the United States is behind most of Eastern Europe in Internet speed relative to price.

@prime_pm and dragonrider_cody, not sure why you two are putting up with ads on Hulu Plus. Hulu is obviously fine for non-anime stuff, but if you're watching anime, stick with Crunchyroll or Funimation. I personally would hate having to watch commericals if I already paid for a subscription.

and I've just deleted mdo7's private message of his K-Pop related links-galore is too much for me to handle.

Region lock. I'm in Romania. Do the math. And don't diss people who want to watch as it airs. It's insanely fun to discuss the latest episode on forums.

What's with the aversion people have to advertisements? I grew up watching the full 8 to 12 minutes of commercials per half hour of television. Watching one to three per half hour online feels a lot less troublesome by comparison.

To answer your question, let me ask another question. A broadcast-quality master file (let's say, a 1080p QuickTime ProRes HQ file, which is pretty much the gold standard in video production) for a 24-minute TV episode clocks in at around 39 gigabytes. As it so happens, I am uploading a Blu-ray master around that size to a replication plant as I type this very sentence. I only get 5 megabit upload speeds on my cable modem, so the Aspera file transfer client is estimating it'll take about 22 hours. And that's if nothing gets disconnected or crashes in that time. And if the file comes through and it's got an error, I'd have to start all over again.

That's why a lot of people will torrent/stream a show that can be seen on Hulu Plus, because many don't like the ads.

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To answer your question, let me ask another question. A broadcast-quality master file (let's say, a 1080p QuickTime ProRes HQ file, which is pretty much the gold standard in video production) for a 24-minute TV episode clocks in at around 39 gigabytes. As it so happens, I am uploading a Blu-ray master around that size to a replication plant as I type this very sentence. I only get 5 megabit upload speeds on my cable modem, so the Aspera file transfer client is estimating it'll take about 22 hours. And that's if nothing gets disconnected or crashes in that time. And if the file comes through and it's got an error, I'd have to start all over again.

What? Is this "Aspera" seriously what passes as a "professional level" file transfer program? You can do better with a free torrent program. The original file would be broken into the normal pieces, and then each piece would be checksumed for integrity. And with the master now a series of pieces you could resume a broken transfer with little data loss. Add in a final recheck of the completed transfer with, say, a SHA-512 hash of the original file and you'd be mile ahead of what you're having to put up with.

Kadmos1 wrote:

That's why a lot of people will torrent/stream a show that can be seen on Hulu Plus, because many don't like the ads.

That and the anime on Hulu isn't HD, even for paying subscribers (which I am one). Plus, I've watched stuff on steaming before and had service fail out. Once it was my Internet, but more often it's the service. If I download a fansub the file is fully on my computer so I know I'll get to watch the whole thing.

assuming there's no separate, improved "home video version" of a show