Why do movie cams (the ones recorded in theatres and put on torrent sites) seem like they’re always small and blurry low-quality video files, even though camcorders have improved massively in the last decade?
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What the other people said…plus the fact that the video is likely compressed to save space. Turns out when you are giving away a product for free, you probably arent shelling out on hosting costs.
There are several explanations for that. Maybe the person recording is nervous so their camera is not in position to record the movie comfortably (similar to the last reason).
Maybe something in front of the camera moved and it fucked up the focus and they didn’t focus it back.
Maybe even they couldn’t find a seat all the way in the center of the back row to capture the whole screen.
Movies come out quickly on DVD now so just wait until it’s on DVD and someone burns it.
Taking a fancy schmancy camcorder into a theater is a real easy way to get caught and ejected (and possibly arrested). As such, those people who bootleg movies do so in as discreet a way as possible.
Most of the time that means recording with a small inconspicuous handheld device, (most often a phone). Phones can take some pretty good video, BUT generally they require good lighting to do so. If you’ve ever been in a movie theater you probably know that “good lighting” is not high on the list of “things found in a movie theater”. So the video as a result is lower resolution. Additionally, the small microphones in a phone can’t accurately capture and reproduce the 8.1 Dobly Surround Sound experience, so the audio is pretty flat and crappy on playback by comparison to the source.
Because it is illegal to capture the movie and pirates tend to use very small cameras to not get caught and a small camera has worse video quality. Also why should any pirate buy an overly expensive camera? It is not like they are making money with it if they are uploading it to torrent.
A lot of them are shot on phones or small consumer grade camcorders, which have small sensors and thus terrible low light performance. Small sensors can’t capture as much light as larger ones. Better performing cameras with larger sensors and better lenses would be hard to hide in a theatre.
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