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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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.
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