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I don't know what the original quality is, but for TV, there are usually 2 or 3 release formats (excluding webrips): standard quality (about half the height/wid
by shitlord 14y ago
I don't know what the original quality is, but for TV, there are usually 2 or 3 release formats (excluding webrips): standard quality (about half the height/width of 720p), 720p, and 1080p. The standard quality and 720p are usually posted a few minutes after the show airs, and the 1080p usually comes a long time later. Sometimes, episodes are even posted before the show airs in your region.
- rayiner 14y agoBut how are they doing the rips? Are they getting the original encoded stream, doing analog capture and reencoding, or what? If DRM forces them to do a less than perfect copy of the stream, that's a big win for the content producer.
- tmzt 14y agoMaybe through DVI? If you can watch something on a standard computer monitor you can also capture it in high-resolution RGB through the DVI port.
- rayiner 14y agoRight, but then you decode -> re-encode which decreases quality. At the aggressive bit-rates used for HD content online, that can be substantial. So as long as DRM forces re-encoding, content producers can say: "buy it for the best quality" and that's a win for them.
- shitlord 14y agoSorry for the late response; I don't usually check threads. According to someone I asked on IRC, House of Cards apparently airs somewhere offshore (I think it was Germany), but that is where the non-webrip episodes are coming from. It also explains why there are only six different non-webrip episodes released. BTW, the webrips are the ones that are coming from DVI or from captured + decrypted video streams.