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johnklos 5y ago
Not really. Even though you can get excellent quality h.265 encodes, it seems the MP3 generation's hearing is so impaired that compressing the hell out of audio and losing tons of audio quality is too common. What's the point of a beautiful 2500 kbps h.265 video if they're going to kill the audio quality by squashing it to 128 kbps?
- knaik94 5y ago
  I do appreciate that Dolby digital 5.1 has become more common as a standard release and don't require a remux download.
iamacyborg 5y ago
Considering the size of bluray rips, let alone UHD ones, TPB downloads are usually a significant step down in terms of quality vs directly ripping a disk.
- black3r 5y ago
  i don't use TPB, so I don't know if they are there as well, but elsewhere on torrents you can find both full blu-ray disc copies and "remuxes", which are just directly ripped from blu-ray to mkv without any loss of audio/video quality.
- tjpnz 5y ago
  With modern codecs you're unlikely to notice much difference between a 20GB download and a rip you did yourself.
  - chungy 5y ago
    The words of somebody that's never witnessed the quality of a UHD disc :)
    - dotancohen 5y ago
      Sell it to me! Seriously, I'd love to hear how much better the quality could be. I miss 35 mm and spot (and hear) digital artifacts often and it drives me crazy.
      - nottorp 5y ago
        Get a blu ray (not even UHD) of Matrix (the 1999 one, there were never any sequels) and compare the lobby explosion scene with any torrent or stream. Mind, it's not worth it for most movies. However, those flames are a good example of why bandwidth can matter.
        dx034 5y ago
        But even a 20GB file? Streams are much more compressed, but I found files >20GB or so to be pretty much the same quality. Which doesn't really matter though, you can also find 40GB files of most movies, they should (if encoded well) definitely match the quality.
        cbg0 5y ago
        It varies quite a bit, I see a lot of banding in various scenes on my TV with 20GB WEB-DLs compared to an actual 4K BR rip.
        rosndo 5y ago
        In most cases that is to be expected because WEB-DLs tend to be poorly encoded. You should be looking for a remux.
        oauea 5y ago
        High quality torrents exist? I could download this right now: BD66 / m2ts / Blu-ray / 2160p / Scene / Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision / HDR10. It's a 64GB file.
        5y ago
- Mashimo 5y ago
  You can download UHD disks if you want. I only have a 7 year old 1080p projector @ 100", so for me a 10 - 20 GB rip is fine.
  - TacticalCoder 5y ago
    I also only have a 1080p projector, no TV... 2 GB rips (not 20 GB) at 1080p are totally fine (and way, way, way better than any streaming service).
    - Bud 5y ago
      Even on a good 4K TV, 2GB rips (and definitely the 4-6GB rips you can often also find) are really quite adequate for a lot of movies if it's a modern codec and the rip has been done well. Some movies are a bit more challenging than others, of course.

Not really. Even though you can get excellent quality h.265 encodes, it seems the MP3 generation's hearing is so impaired that compressing the hell out of audio and losing tons of audio quality is too common. What's the point of a beautiful 2500 kbps h.265 video if they're going to kill the audio quality by squashing it to 128 kbps?

knaik94 5y ago
I do appreciate that Dolby digital 5.1 has become more common as a standard release and don't require a remux download.

iamacyborg 5y ago

Considering the size of bluray rips, let alone UHD ones, TPB downloads are usually a significant step down in terms of quality vs directly ripping a disk.

black3r 5y ago
i don't use TPB, so I don't know if they are there as well, but elsewhere on torrents you can find both full blu-ray disc copies and "remuxes", which are just directly ripped from blu-ray to mkv without any loss of audio/video quality.
tjpnz 5y ago
With modern codecs you're unlikely to notice much difference between a 20GB download and a rip you did yourself.
- chungy 5y ago
  The words of somebody that's never witnessed the quality of a UHD disc :)
  - dotancohen 5y ago
    Sell it to me! Seriously, I'd love to hear how much better the quality could be. I miss 35 mm and spot (and hear) digital artifacts often and it drives me crazy.
    - nottorp 5y ago
      Get a blu ray (not even UHD) of Matrix (the 1999 one, there were never any sequels) and compare the lobby explosion scene with any torrent or stream. Mind, it's not worth it for most movies. However, those flames are a good example of why bandwidth can matter.
      - dx034 5y ago
        But even a 20GB file? Streams are much more compressed, but I found files >20GB or so to be pretty much the same quality. Which doesn't really matter though, you can also find 40GB files of most movies, they should (if encoded well) definitely match the quality.
        cbg0 5y ago
        It varies quite a bit, I see a lot of banding in various scenes on my TV with 20GB WEB-DLs compared to an actual 4K BR rip.
        rosndo 5y ago
        In most cases that is to be expected because WEB-DLs tend to be poorly encoded. You should be looking for a remux.
      - oauea 5y ago
        High quality torrents exist? I could download this right now: BD66 / m2ts / Blu-ray / 2160p / Scene / Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision / HDR10. It's a 64GB file.
        5y ago
Mashimo 5y ago
You can download UHD disks if you want. I only have a 7 year old 1080p projector @ 100", so for me a 10 - 20 GB rip is fine.
- TacticalCoder 5y ago
  I also only have a 1080p projector, no TV... 2 GB rips (not 20 GB) at 1080p are totally fine (and way, way, way better than any streaming service).
  - Bud 5y ago
    Even on a good 4K TV, 2GB rips (and definitely the 4-6GB rips you can often also find) are really quite adequate for a lot of movies if it's a modern codec and the rip has been done well. Some movies are a bit more challenging than others, of course.