720p Esir
1080p CtrlHD
CtrlHD
EuReKA
REFiNED
iLL
PerfectionHD
ESiR
CHD
BLiND
CiNEFiLE
SiLU
SZ
SiNNERS
720p Esir
1080p CtrlHD
Friends, please tell why you choose that ones. I want to know what they are good. Bitrate, audio, colors or something..
eureka and esir.
my friend encodes fine, hes da best
ESiR and CtrlHD are one of the oldest nonscene encoders.And their home is HDbits, i'm not sure but oldest HD tracker as i know, most famous and highest level as well.Collect eveything together, with their quality encodes...way is bright
I would love to see some better screenshot examples. I see that there is a very slight difference in the two above, but that could be the exception just as much as it could be the rule. And I don't know if that's the best example, since there really isn't much going on there that needs to be the best quality possible.
From the threads I've seen pertaining to HD, it seems like there is a kneejerk reaction within this forum to note that torrent encoders are the best. The charge seems to be led by a handful of HDBits members, so I think this is, in part, a matter of pride.
It just seems to me, as someone who leeches 720p releases of whatever group gets it to usenet first except when I'm going back in time and CtrlHD or ESiR or DON or whoever have been posted recently, that all of the films I've seen have been great HD quality. It seems that the zealots just take it for granted that these torrent encoders are better and never really prove the point in an irrefutable series of examples.
Tangentially, if you're not a member of HDBits (or using Usenet where at least some of the better movies are posted), where do you find such releases?
Esir and CtrlHD, IMO. I like PerfectionHD's rips as well.
Esir and CtrlHD
Eureka for 1080p - for quality and especially compatibility reasons. I have yet to find a Eureka release that does not play back properly on hardware players. They strictly stick to 4.1 profile and a relatively low number of reference frames, in addition to dxva compatibility. All this is very important, and even everybody's darling ESiR, a very good group, no doubt, had 1080p releases that simply don't play back properly on hardware players.
ESiR for 720p - they seem to be 'specialised' on 720p, and a lot of their releases are quality indeed. And for 720p, the whole reference frame and dxva compatibility issue is much less of a problem (less of a burden, both memory and CPU wise).
As far as scene groups are concerned, REFiNED, SiNNERS and Japhson usually do a pretty good job. While p2p rips often are of better quality indeed, the difference is not as huge as some make it to be. There are some quality scene rips out there.
Last edited by shipwreck; 04-23-2009 at 02:45 PM.
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