AV1 Is Now Live on SexLikeReal!
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petex67 SLR streaming users is out of proportion bigger than downloads. and in downloads it's rather a small group using "Original". can't go wrong.
it's better for creators economy and everyone to get it extra for those who really want it.
thx for all the wishes. same to you good Sire
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Good thing - people with purchased PPV will get AV1 upgrade
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doublevr does this include all content that has been purchased but SLR no longer has distribution rights for like VRBangers/VRConk? I’ve purchased quite a few videos before I went lifetime since it was an option.
OpeningThng19 only active SLR videos are getting av1 treatment and all the future ones
doublevr wait surely I’m misreading this. If I’ve paid for a lifetime subscription I don’t have to now pay for an individual video if i want to download original file?
You do. Why do you think people are raging in this thread?
This is absurd,
Improvments? How is taking away a feature and locking it behind a paywall an improvement in any way to the user?
It's not.
Bait and switch, as many have said.
Many people have paid for a lifetime membership for the high quality videos and now we have to pay extra? Sounds pretty shady....
not cool guys... Harming those who have committed the most to your website.
Wait what? This applies to people with active year/lifetime subs? How is that even legal?
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SchnuppiLilac LMAO that you did that. Yeah, I think I left fairly reasonable comments which still give credit where it's due - but this nuance requires writing longer sentences/paragraphs. So it seems like staff is more likely to reply to shorter comments, which can naturally skew more complain-y. And that's how we arrive at dismissal of 'randoms' and tooting of one's own 'innovation' horn, like some kinda TEMU Elon Musk.
VRXVR like a Frankenstein that have many different things that confuse the heck out of any new novice
ah, so the Destiny 2 of adult video. Get ready to Witness my schlong reaching its final shape.
Can also consider Early Access for scenes like on Steam
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This all sounds like a company who instead of focusing on making the best product is trying to do a bumch of different things and doing them all subpar instead. The product is confusing right now to me. Way too much going on.
I could care less about downloads, I only stream but I do think it's a bad move to change it on people without any reason except "costs have gone up." The recent lexi luna PT is the best videos they've ever done imo. The problem is that's the first one I liked in probably about a year or longer.
I hate how they are trying to do 50 different things instead of focusing on what makes them stand out. They should only be doing Originals and PT and there should be multiple videos per week coming out. It's so slow with releasing still.
1 ) No one gives 2 shits about 2D porn, its free everywhere on the internet and you can watch it on Meta Browser on Quest. No need to use Deo for that. (the 2d vids arent even available on DEO either).
2) Still way too many subpar studios to cycle through, wish they got rid of a lot of the bullshit. There's even studios listed on the rigt hand side that don't even have any videos but are sitll in the menu to be selected.
2) AV1 looks marginally better, definitlely not good enough to justify paying extra for it. I don't understand why the switch over to that when it's clearly just not a big enough leap.
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Hurto11 Exactly this!!! Very well said. Just stop that 2d nonsense already, cut the crap studio's no one cares about. Focus on high quality SLR originals!!
I don't think cutting the crap studios will result in more quality content. Producing more content of any kind means higher costs, so there only will be more quality content if more quality content leads directly to more revenue. Excluding external content that almost no one watches will not make SLR release more videos per week.
Regarding 2D content: It is pretty clear already that no one watches it, and no one without a headset will pay for an SLR subscription to watch flat on their phones when there is PH etc. The only thing I could imagine is that there is an audience that would pay for flat with scripts but I have no way of knowing if this is true. Not sure if there is any serious competition in that sector.
What concerns me more is that the next big thing that has been launched the other day is SLR Toonz Originals. Toons! I couldn't dream this up even if I tried.
It's funny how we always seem to get the things no one wants: Jimmy, flat, downloads for $9.99 a piece, toons. So maybe we should ask for less, more crappy, more expensive non-VR content in order to get what we actually want?
End of sermon.
This just seems like another push to force streaming to me. AV1 offers better compression, and with image quality and resolution improving, the already low 30Mbps bitrate cap is even more limiting. Which will lead to download quality getting inferior to streaming quality especially with the upcoming 16K Black magic cam.
The original file was the way to get around that low bitrate but now SLR takes it away and pretends paying for every video separately is a viable solution for something YOU ALREADY PAID FOR IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. It's absolutely ridiculous to me that you should pay for another type of encoding. New codecs are just part of the natural evolution of digital media not a feature let alone a reason to pay 5+ per scene?!
Honestly, it's really starting to get old. I used to be a huge SLR fan due to them introducing lots of scripts, later AI scripts, passthrough, and delivering the best content for the longest time. But really, it seems like every month or so SLR seems hell bent on pisses me off nowadays. It's getting really hard to defend you really.
Why can't you just serve to the needs of your customers instead of trying to force people in some vision of what a customer should be like? I really hope SLR will get back to it's roots as I think you're really alienating your customer base with all these changes nobody wants like forcing people to use Deo VR even if they want another player, constantly attacking and restricting downloads, removing the public API, limiting script downloads, focussing on 2D, making features streaming only, etc., etc.
Like really, I know this probably will be ignored but please just get back to doing things like you did in the past and stop limiting what people actually want all time. You're really just pissing people off this way.
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2D VR is really just a bad idea. I mean I still have my own selection of 2d vids from the time VR wasn't a thing and I have a directory of the best 2D porn I've come across over the years. I watched it recently on my AVP with Moonplayer which can convert them via "realtime 3D". It kinda looks nice, but that's about it. If you have a choice between the hottest 2D porn, with some 3d-ish conversion or really natively shot high quality VR, of course one chooses to watch the latter. 2d just can't compete. And even though I have this directory of my favs 2d porn, in those few circumstances that I want to watch 2d porn I always find myself using one of the free websites out there, just because they have an awesome selection of porn too and it's just always available and easy to pull up. Out of respect for SLR I won't name those websites here but there are some really GREAT ones out there and they're completely free (well apart from the ads of course). I just dont see how SLR wants to compete with that.
It just doesn't make any sense, I don't believe it will return any income to SLR and it WILL eat resources. Just stop all that crap and focus on the core business, the reason that we're here: high quality SLR VR originals.
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harigeharry flat costs us nothing. Like no additional cost at all.
It's a separate thing that we are bridging smartphones as users have to get on web before they get into vr. There's no direct path into vr.
We already got the first 1,000 flat videos and i really like it. We start seeing traction with the best titles yet to come. Gets you busy both in vr and smartphone. Getting many more flat as there's abundance of it produced.
We have impressive 2025 pipeline as we got all star tech team and tapping into product and business now.
Bear with us and you will get many more just like all the other things we innovated that no one believed. We are dead serious getting spatial media like no one else.
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Also I agree on evolution happening in many ways. There are new users coming to us every day that know nothing about VR and expect us to deliver the best experience.
Streaming ot downloads is like all-in-one headsets to wired, around 90/10.
You guys are fighting the losing battle.
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Premium now needs to be renamed 2nd class. PPV is such a poor value I can't see many bothering with that.
But what is the technical difference between the AV1 stream file and the download file? Is there one? Because the stream encoding is nothing impressive. It's not an upgrade.