first pirate film ever watched

dogz

I know this might seem to be warez but its not ment to be, i only want general info on the film

Basically what was the film, Was it a cam, tlesync, etc and was it in divx, vcd, etc and finally what was the quality like

To start things off mine was Spidermaan it was a telesync in divx and the quality was like an old vhs tape .

tman

Old School, damn thing restarts at certain points of the film (i recieved it on a dodgy cdr)
i now have 40 odd gb of divx/xvids:)

dogz

yea got spiderman on cdr and then had 2 hdds full of divx but there all gone now, deleted didnt need them anymore they were all given to me on cdr

lodgepole

Natural Born Killers in 1995 on a VHS tape. I'm pretty sure it was a second or third generation copy of an American video of it.

First digital bootleg was Fellowship of the Ring, the DVD screener.

Hagar

ET on Betamax prior to cinema release in Ireland.

And no, I'm not taking the p1ss.

The Brigadier

Return of the Jedi on VHS before the cinema release....quality was pretty good as I remember....Well compared to standard VHS.

Sleepy

Jurassic Park on VHS prior to the initial release. Crap Quality, loads of people's heads in the way etc

Digital it would have been The Fellowship of the Ring DVD Screener on DivX.

Khannie

Originally posted by Hagar
ET on Betamax prior to cinema release in Ireland.

And no, I'm not taking the p1ss.

Similar....ET on VHS after cinema release (Spielberg didn't release ET on video for /ages/ after the cinema). Quality was good as I recall.

CivilServant

Old School??! That's last year stuff, n00bie

Seen the matrix cam job when it came out in 1999 thanks to a mate. And The Phantom Menace shortly followed. Great times. Everyone was delighted with cam jobs, we didn't care if it was totally crap quality which it was. Then divx 3 came on the scene and blew everyone away.

Now I won't accept anything less than xvid, with qpel and GMC for quality

Good thread topic dogz!

Booster

ET on VHS, good copy, back in 82.:D

ixoy

I saw Terminator II: Judgment Day on VHS as it was in the cinemas here.
I'm struggling to recall my first film on my PC though. It was before Fellowship anyway...

tman

Originally posted by CivilServant
Old School??! That's last year stuff, n00bie

pfft, i was ripping mp3's when you were still suckling at your mothers teat.

rymus

Wild Things, a long time ago on VCD. Friends dad brought it back from Malaysia along with a few others.

Rew

Lethal Weapon II and The Fly II on very very dodgy VHS I think they came from the Lebanon but it was a long long time ago... Dont think they were cams just heavily copied.

My first SVCD/VCD's were a cam copy of StarWars Episode I which I promptly showed to my mate who was heading to the states the next day just to see it early... Quality was OK nothing to rave about typical cam.

Slpery slope after that

KdjaCL

ET then some movie called Robocop ,lknew nothing about it only it was a tape with robocop handwritten on it. Class movie

1st proper downloaded one was shrek2.


kdjac

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Pirates of the Carribean.......(sorry, it had to be done)


Oddly the first pirate movie i ever saw WAS a pirate movie also, Hook on copied VHS bought from a reputable store on minghy street in the lebanon back in 1994.

Good days.

ixoy

Originally posted by tman
pfft, i was ripping mp3's when you were still suckling at your mothers teat.

OK - when were you doing mp3s? Remember those days when you could only play the first 30 seconds before you had to buy the player? Before WinAmp existed? Ahh memories!

tman

Originally posted by ixoy
OK - when were you doing mp3s? Remember those days when you could only play the first 30 seconds before you had to buy the player? Before WinAmp existed? Ahh memories!

*ahem* yeah, way before all that!

funnily enough, the only film that i haven't been able to rip properly is pirates of the carribean:dunno:
damn audio was out of sync

remoteboy

ET on VHS, about 6 months before it hit the cinema in Ireland. Watched it so many times that by the time it hit the cinemas i couldn't be arsed going to see it on the big screen.

The quality of the tape wasn't great although I didn't know it at the time. It was only when the merchandising started hitting the shelves that I realised ET was brown not green. True story.

As for all this digital jiggery-pokery, I still haven't seen a pirated movie on CD-R, DVD-R, etc. - mainly because my DVD player doesn't support them (it's an old Toshiba) and it just ain't the same watching movies on a computer monitor.

Col_Loki

Platoon was prob my first (there was alot of them arround that time) . First DivX ......... LOTR and by god was i impressed.........

Stephen

Jurassic Park on VHS around 1993, also came from mingy street/naqoura, Lebanon

****ty quality hi-8 camcorder in cinema job, you could see people getting up to go to the jax.

Rew

There seems to be a fair few Army Bratz and/or Army Grunts around....

Any one else have stacks of dodgy tapes where the tracks dont match the play list??

po0k

Originally posted by Sleepy
Jurassic Park on VHS prior to the initial release. Crap Quality, loads of people's heads in the way etc

Digital it would have been The Fellowship of the Ring DVD Screener on DivX.

First ever of which I was aware: Jurassic Park, VHS, quite posibly the same one as you Eoin.

Digital: can't remember, saw someone watching a film on their PC, asked them why did they pay for a DVD with such bad quality, noticed they didn't ahve a DVD drive, found out about Divx 3.11alpha

Giblet

Would of been most films in the 80's I seen.
This guy used to run a video shop down the road, and it was shut down. Used to come around the doors and sell copies of hem at cheap prices, and he used to get stuff that wasn't out yet. Everyone bought them.

OfflerCrocGod

South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut bril film first film I ever downloaded - now my HDD is full because of all the films (60GB) damn you Bittorrent!!:D

Explosive_Cornflake

Hmmm, sad and all, but thew lion king on VHS a long time before it was out here. I remember my friend got it from oman off some realition of his. Next thing i remember was fight club, and then resident evil on a VCD which came from London.

from tmanfunnily enough, the only film that i haven't been able to rip properly is pirates of the carribean

I spent a long time trying to converyt this film. In the end Auto GK did the job and its a piece of piss to use. Make sure you rip in ifo mode, its a lot easier then.

deckie27

Mine is also ET '82
At the time I didn't even know it was a pirate i was about 10.
The cub scouts aranged for us to watch it on the local pubs big screen as far as I rembember is was very soon after if not at the same time it was in the cinema

Dec

Venom

Originally posted by Hagar
ET on Betamax prior to cinema release in Ireland.

And no, I'm not taking the p1ss.

Same

Agent Smith

jungle book, on a doggy vhs,



first download was shindler's list, almost dvd qualitty,

took 1.3gb's.


was worth it,
(took 4vcd's)



ah yes, back in the day when i had access to a 1 mb line....


sigh....

dogz

oh forgot to mention my first vhs. It was honey i shrunk the kids a vhs copy from a retail one so qality was quite good:rolleyes:

Explosive_Cornflake

Originally posted by dogz
oh forgot to mention my first vhs. It was honey i shrunk the kids a vhs copy from a retail one so qality was quite good:rolleyes:

I'm told thats the first film i saw in the cinema

kazaam

any1 here got 0day or 0sec, i really need some sites, pm me

The Real B-man

Dumb & Dumber on VHS classic first pirate DVD finding Nemo perfect Copy no dodgy picture or sound and all the extras work to !!!

L5

First digital copy was spiderman 2, near perfect quality, followed by shrek 2 also perfect quality :cool: