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I used to work in a cinema and it was absolutely fucking dreadful.
We once had a woman come out crying to security because she'd taken her kids in to see a film and a guy started getting a hand job from his girlfriend right next to them.
With films and TV I had a period of about a year a few years ago where I downloaded torrents of movies and occasional TV shows, but having a Sky, Netflix and Amazon sub means that pretty much everything comes my way conveniently at some point and I'm happy to pay.
I have to say I think the music streaming services have their prices set too low - I'd probably pay more. If I was less lazy I'd work out a way to reimburse my favourite artists in other ways too, but I *am* this lazy, so...
I could hear the difference between a legal paid for download and cd. Cd won.
Torrent downloads often came in way lower quality..
I have my own "online" Movie collection via Plex so ripping is essencial.
i have my whole music collection as MP3 and M4A and I can't hear a difference, but my 50 year old ears dedinitely aren't as good as they used to me, I've lost some top end and bottom end. I converted all my CD collection and sold them.
I would be gutted if I changed my setup and started to hear a noticeable difference!
one thing I have noticed over the years is that new torrents are much higher quality than they used to be, often FLAC lossless.
They have youtube, spotify and 4g now so can stream in real time. so i could well believe that illegal downloading is falling.
I still buy CDs, though we have Netflix/Prime for films/box sets. I buy all my software too.
I can stream Spotify without any issues and I'm on Vodafone FFS!
I'm certain I even noticed a drop in audio quality when playing songs from my phone over bluetooth. A wired connection just seemed to sound better. How much of this was a placebo though...
Then again it was all more pronounced anyway having seperate tweeters, mid range and sub bass all angled to fire at the best angles with 3 amps a whole lot of eq!
Twas a short lived time, and the car and all the gear have long since been sold to fund real life
no doubt torrents are better quality now, the ones I was using would be about 10 years old or there abouts now I imagine. Limewire and bearshare haha.
Nowadays my music collection is largely itunes downloads, played on an hp laptop that has that bang n olufsen play eq built in.. which just makes my external speakers crackle.. then again theyre a cheap ish set of edifier speakers too!
I hate cinemas too, once I went there with a new girlfriend and I ended up siting next to a blubbery woman who'd brought her annoying kids too.......almost put us off!!!