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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.

Is there literally ANY baseline to a lifetime membership? Seems the only thing of which you're assured with a lifetime membership is a neat little username and password. So for now, downloads are being eliminated as part of the membership baseline. Because of the immense improvements and costs associated with a new codec. There is LITERALLY nothing preventing them from next eliminating free streaming as part of the baseline membership. Because, you know, new codec and all... Then, as I said, you are left with your neat little username and password.

This is really a sham and a scam being perpetrated on your paying members. People paid for their memberships with the knowledge they would have access to downloads as part of that membership. To eliminate those is literally the definition of bait and switch. But the tone of your posts has shown what you think of your paying members.

Plenty of new fish in the sea, right?

doublevr Streaming ot downloads is like all-in-one headsets to wired, around 90/10.

You guys are fighting the losing battle.

If there are so few people downloading, why kneecap us? It shouldn't make much difference to your budget to keep providing original quality downloads

If people want to pay for AV1 downloads they can go ahead, charge for the cutting edge stuff since it costs more resources to create

harigeharry

"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."

Many a businesses have died due to Hubris and not listening to their core audience, pray it doesn't happen to SLR.

petex67 Well I do think highly of @doublevr, I believe that if a decision turns out the wrong way, he'll see it in time and reverse it before any real damage is done. I strongly doubt his 2D decision though but enough has been said about it, we'll just have to see how it goes.

petex67 Yes I'm sure that's true as well

You simply cannot offer a lifetime subscription, take features away, and then charge extra for them. No sensible person considers this acceptable. If you want to take away original downloads for new subscriptions going forward, then, while I still don't like that, it's at least not taking away something someone already paid for. Active subscriptions should retain the ability to download original quality, at least until the next renewal date (for non-lifetime subscriptions).

harigeharry

If the high quality SLR videos continue and continue to improve then to me even though I am not a 2D VR fan I will glady except the trade off.

Right now the SLR videos are getting super sharp tothe point that non PT still look pretty darn good processed as AI PT. The colors are deeper and crisper.

For me the name of the game is total immersion and they are pushing forwards again towards this and not backwards.

PaulBlart Thing is, if you bought a subscription a month ago you thought you were paying for HBR files. Then they take those away and give you 'free' flat video's instead, something you're absolutely not interested in. How is that even fair?

harigeharry

I hear you. Ill let DoubleVR or someone else respond to that aspect of it but as far as creating the ultimate immersive videos at least recently it has been more steps forward than backwards..