list your favourite HD release group

**Likvid** · 10-06-2008, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by saulin

Originally Posted by ryan20021982

Good for your tv but 720P is still 1280x720

Anyways 1280x534 is not 720p so I wonder why a lot of groups choose that res.

My god you are new to this.

It's 534p because they crop the black borders and only process the image to save space and make the files smaller.

**Cleaner** · 10-07-2008, 10:50 AM

NoGRP for sure

**ryan20021982** · 10-07-2008, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by saulin

Originally Posted by ryan20021982

Good for your tv but 720P is still 1280x720

Anyways 1280x534 is not 720p so I wonder why a lot of groups choose that res.

True 720P is 16:9 not all movies are released in 16:9 some are 2.35
which is even wider which IMO is retarted, but thats what it is

**MjWoNeR** · 10-13-2008, 11:55 PM

I guess I have to go with EuReKa based from my experience. The higher the quality the better.

There is nothing more insulting to a good calibrated 1080p HDTV than a "2 hour action film" 1080p rip with less bitrate than a DVD.

**smd9** · 07-26-2009, 04:15 PM

This might be a little off topic, but it seems that most of the non-scene groups release with DTS sound, and I've noticed scene starting to do this too. IMO, DTS is a waste of bit rate unless you have a really high end audio system. Most comparisons I've read on-line say that most people can't tell the difference, and notice changing the audio system (i.e. hardware/speakers) more than changing the audio encoding (Dolby/DTS).
So basically, my point was to ask if there are groups which don't sacrifice in video bit rate (which I think is much more noticable than audio bit rate) but prefer AC3 over DTS.

**brightsid** · 07-26-2009, 08:52 PM

You are wrong sound is important as video. And you don't need a high end audio to understand the difference in movies.

**smd9** · 07-26-2009, 10:39 PM

Um OK. Other that just calling me "wrong", would you care to back up your claims somehow?
I'm not saying sound isn't important. I appreciate a cool surround sound track just as much as the next guy, if not more. I'm just doubtful that a 1500kbps DTS sound stream is more than twice as good as a 640kbps AC3 stream, as the bit rate might imply. That extra 860kbps would make more of a noticeable difference in video bandwidth than it would in audio bandwidth (especially in smaller 720p releases), IMHO.
Anyway, I didn't mean to take this too far off topic and turn this into a DTS vs AC3 debate.

PS I like DON as a release group too :-)

**Lucifer9999** · 01-04-2010, 03:10 PM

the best for me:
- p2p: esir, ctrlhd.
- scene: sinners, cinefille

plus wiki, don, eureka, hdbrise, septic, reveille......
and many others, i'm a big fan of 720p releases (the best balance between size and quality)