Pyra news partially stale from the dragon's mouth

[matzesu]

I dotnt think that i will be able to play these Videos on the first few months until the 3D Driver is ready and the Power Saving Options..

I also wonder how good the Pyra can get Charged from my 6000 mah Anker Powerbank....

 

[mati]

I wonder how Amazon Prime Video will perform on the Pyra though. In order to get HD on Linux nowadays you either need the Android app or an approved web browser. On my laptop I solved it by installing Microsoft Edge (the development version for Windows 7) in WINE, but I literally shiver every time I think about that as a concept. On a screen the size of a Pyra I think SD quality might look fine or at least good enough, but when we have a screen capable of 720p I want to actually get 720p content.

It hurts enough that I'm still paying full price for a service that refuses to deliver full content, both in terms of selection for my country and quality for my devices.

I guess Sweden has at least the right to bypass copy protection for a private copy of discs. So you could rip Blu-Rays, convert them to 720p MKV, put them on a SD card and watch them e. g. with Kodi.

Of course streaming is more common right now and many of you don't own discs anymore. My disc collection spans around 300 movies and it is easier for me to find something I want to watch in my own movie collection, than on Netfilx or Amazon. Sadly in germany it is not allowed to bypass effective copy protection. So that is, of course, something I would never do.

 

[bzar]

So that is, of course, something I would never do.

Reading this next to your shifty-eyed avatar makes me suspicious.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

Sadly in germany it is not allowed to bypass effective copy protection.

? It'd only be effective, if you can't bypass it. ?

 

[Djhg2000]

I guess Sweden has at least the right to bypass copy protection for a private copy of discs. So you could rip Blu-Rays, convert them to 720p MKV, put them on a SD card and watch them e. g. with Kodi.

Of course streaming is more common right now and many of you don't own discs anymore. My disc collection spans around 300 movies and it is easier for me to find something I want to watch in my own movie collection, than on Netfilx or Amazon. Sadly in germany it is not allowed to bypass effective copy protection. So that is, of course, something I would never do.

Our situation is quite complicated. We're allowed to circumvent copy protection for personal use unless it's an effective copy protection (meaning not easily circumvented), with the exception that if it prevents you from accessing the content on a physical object which you own then you can do whatever to have to.

Say for instance that I buy a DVD containing a movie. If I want to have a backup it's currently perfectly legal to rip it to whatever I want as long as I don't share it with anyone beyond my family and close friends (there are some limits decided in court here, like I can't claim 10000 friends I've met online 2 seconds before sharing it with them are my close friends).

If I buy a Blu-Ray and want to play it on my Linux machine, the law grants me the right to do whatever I have to in order to watch it on Linux.

If I buy a DRM protected movie online and it requires a proprietary player to verify HDCP then I'm SOL. If I install Windows and grab the decrypted HDCP stream then I can keep that as a backup but I can't reverse engineer the player to play the movie in Linux. Unless support for that player is officially dropped because then I am free to reverse engineer it.

I say currently because now lobbyists are claiming "nobody copies for private use anyway" and thus the current private copy laws should be dropped. Well, if nobody does it, why do they care then ?

Also, obligatory I am not a lawyer disclaimer.

 

[Xcl4m4t10n]

I dotnt think that i will be able to play these Videos on the first few months until the 3D Driver is ready and the Power Saving Options..

I also wonder how good the Pyra can get Charged from my 6000 mah Anker Powerbank....

Photo of Matzesu removed. I don't know what implication was meant, but it contributed nothing to the discussion. - Binky

 

[matzesu]

Why?? Do this Picture of me shows something that gives the readers of this boards a solution to run Videos on the first few Months on Pyra??

I know my Style looks a bit Strange, whit this Hat (which is quite useful but don’t keep your ears warm ,) and the Buff underneath (that keep your ears warm) ..
This is my Winter head gear as I think it will be quite useful for snow etc , but unfortunately there was just one day whit snow this winter ..


Whit best regards, Matthias

 

[Swordfish II]

I wonder how Amazon Prime Video will perform on the Pyra though. In order to get HD on Linux nowadays you either need the Android app or an approved web browser. On my laptop I solved it by installing Microsoft Edge (the development version for Windows 7) in WINE, but I literally shiver every time I think about that as a concept. On a screen the size of a Pyra I think SD quality might look fine or at least good enough, but when we have a screen capable of 720p I want to actually get 720p content.

It hurts enough that I'm still paying full price for a service that refuses to deliver full content, both in terms of selection for my country and quality for my devices.

I have both amazon and netflix, but since my mobile devices are widevine l3, they only support SD.

I usually end up torrenting to get hd. Morally I think it is justified since I only torrent shows on those and I do pay for the HD services of both.

Dunno if that falls under fair use legally though.

 

[Gren]

I'm still alive, but stuffed with work and I'm also fighting a bit with my health, but I'm not dead yet
1000 cases will ship to me next week, 550 mainboards have also been produced already. So yeah, moving along

Hey ED - hope you're OK

Just wondering if the cases turned up last week, and if so, are they up to scratch?!
I'm interested in any tidbits of updated news you are willing and able to share (as I'm sure are others)

Still waiting "patiently" for my pre-pre-order!

Gren

 

[Djoga'Ro]

I usually end up torrenting to get hd. Morally I think it is justified since I only torrent shows on those and I do pay for the HD services of both.

I thought, what you are getting via torrent you are sharing as well, at least during the time it needs to get it. ?

 

[Swordfish II]

I thought, what you are getting via torrent you are sharing as well, at least during the time it needs to get it. ?

You do, unless you turn off the upload, which I do.

 

[PowerGod]

You do, unless you turn off the upload, which I do.

BURN HIM !!!

 

[Djhg2000]

I have both amazon and netflix, but since my mobile devices are widevine l3, they only support SD.

I usually end up torrenting to get hd. Morally I think it is justified since I only torrent shows on those and I do pay for the HD services of both.

Dunno if that falls under fair use legally though.

I'd say it falls under what's fair from a moral standpoint. Pretty sure it's not legal in Sweden, although some officials have said they won't chase down people occasionally downloading a movie or two because that would be a waste of police resources. There was also no record of people receiving settlement letters from the movie industry in Sweden last year. It appears that have simply given up now that one of the largest ISPs in Sweden (Bahnhof) basically said enough is enough and took a movie studio to court over sending invalid requests for subscriber information. Bahnhof won and since then they only share subscriber information with police following a valid court order, to the great annoyance of local police trying to sneak in requests without a court order.

You do, unless you turn off the upload, which I do.

This however is not fair from a moral standpoint.

(Mods, please keep in mind this is a joke and I do not want to encourage unlawful activity.)

 

[levi]

In my experience, it's very rare that anyone is feeding off your download when you're downloading it. Though my main experience of torrenting was during uknova's glory years, where I was only torrenting stuff I could have recorded on my VCR. Maybe if you picked a newly ripped movie that might be more popular, or maybe the limited upload of my internet at the time was more significant in my troubles in maintaining a good looking ratio.

 

[Djhg2000]

In my experience, it's very rare that anyone is feeding off your download when you're downloading it. Though my main experience of torrenting was during uknova's glory years, where I was only torrenting stuff I could have recorded on my VCR. Maybe if you picked a newly ripped movie that might be more popular, or maybe the limited upload of my internet at the time was more significant in my troubles in maintaining a good looking ratio.

I just leave Transmission running as a daemon on my Debian server. You wouldn't believe the ratios I'm getting on my Linux ISOs (no seriously, they really are Linux ISOs). Distributing Linux distros makes me feel like I'm finally donating something useful back to the community besides random small code projects.

 

[matzesu]

Some Years ago, i bought a Blue Ray Player, a Box of James Bond Movies, and another Movie on Blue Ray, and whe have a bunch of DVD, but i wouldnt want to rip the Disks to watch them on a Mobile Device like the Pyra.., also i have a 10 gig Dataplan, so watching Netflix even whitout WLAN wouldnt be a big issue for me..
And as long the dark parts of the Movie arend too dark, i wouldnt mind to have just SD..
Once i watched Game of Thrones in our Garden, and the Scenes in Winterfell wherend visible because they where too dark..

 

[Xcl4m4t10n]

Photo of Matzesu removed. I don't know what implication was meant, but it contributed nothing to the discussion. - Binky

So you should remove his avatar too, no? It contributed nothing to the discussion. Oh wait, like the 95% of comments on this topic.

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[matzesu]

My Avatar is fine, but to post it whitout commentary is a bit, i dotnt know..
I mean i look strange on this Picture, execly whit this Hat, but its my Favored hat..
You could me send naked in the City, i dotnt have issues whit this, but only if i can take my hat ^^

 

[ClockworkCoder]

I'm just wondering how ED is faring. We've had a couple of "I'm not dead" posts, which is encouraging, but I sincerely hope he's starting to recover from whatever was/is ailing him.

 

[PowerGod]

You could me send naked in the City, i dotnt have issues whit this, but only if i can take my hat ^^

At least, don't wear it on the head !