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Resolution..: 1280x718
Audio.......: ac3 5.1
This is basically similiar to what's been done for years on Pee2Pee and known as WEB-DL.
Native HD video downloaded from iTunes with the DRM and metadata stripped and remuxed
into .mkv container. Video/Audio are untouched. There is absolutely no point to reencode
as the source is progressive and the file sizes are very "affordable". That's also the
reason for H264 tag and not x264.
The Good: Most of TV shows never see a Blu-Ray release. This is the closest thing
you'd get to a retail HD release. HDTV 720p caps are not regularly archived on many
sites and they have the all "issues" of a TV cap - screen spam from network, occasional
issues such as airing compression artifacts, encode filtering issues, no end credits
and so on.
The Bad: 1) Go prove you didn't just leech it off a Pee2Pee and scene'd it.
2) No rules
3) No site sections
4) Low tradability.
Best way we thought of to work around "The Bad 1)" is a screenshot of our iTunes queue as it's downloading
the set. Seems like a decent proof we spent our hard earned money on the atrocity that is iTunes, fruit of
the devil's spawn (aka crApple).
Why bother? Everyone likes high res and so do we. We are aiming at shows we personally love and don't
have high res copies of. In this instance, Damages S01 was the only one released on Blu-Ray, S04 never had scene
caps and S05 only analog HDTV caps. We decided to do S02-S03 as well for consistency, as those webrips are
the closest thing to retail.
Little lamb...
Smile!hing to retail.
Little lamb...
Smile!