Why you all should all use SCENE ONLY trackers

[mitraark]

I am not anal about quality but i definitely feel bad if the movie i'm watching is all pixelated :| Sometimes Scene only care about fastest Pre and don't put in that extra time to needed to encode a better quality rip.

[iLOVENZB]

I am not anal about quality but i definitely feel bad if the movie i'm watching is all pixelated :| Sometimes Scene only care about fastest Pre and don't put in that extra time to needed to encode a better quality rip.

Oh the irony. At least most scene groups use "raw" sources. Let's use the first high profile screener of 2011, Drive. The source all the p2p groups used was "Drive 2011 SCREENER-P2P" (filename: DRIVE_V10.m4v, size: 707 MB), so how did 'TCM' (filename: DRIVE.SCREENER.TCM.avi, size: 1.16 GB) manage to add an additional 480.84 MB to that?

From nfo:

work done : converted to a avi[xvid] little sharping resize and contrast tweek there is a sample download it and check it!!

I can understand the other groups reason for size increases, they converted 2ch audio to 5.1 (don't laugh) and added their 'personal' filters (ie. random calculations on their 1-click app)

[Night0wl]

Has nothing to do with preaching, all i say is that scene trackers wont have encode after encode. Btw, Night0wl, how tall are you? I'm 6ft and sit around the middle centre with no issues or complaints. Wouldn't you be better suited to the back? You're height would act as an advantage to overlook the 5ft heads?

Scene has introduced x264 with HD, People who still use XviD are prepared to skimp on quality. Besides there are a few INT SD x264 groups, they just don't don't get spread as easily. This scene mainly goes under CN X264 or RU x264. Groups like TLF, XTM, USL, BMDru, CNXP, NewMov etc. Some of these groups even have a public board where they offer DDL links or FTP.

I am over 6ft 6inches and my biggest problem is more the legspace in all the decent or good seats. Every time I've been to the cinema for the last 15 or so years, I have either been sitting quite uncomfortably or had terrible seats. All the ones with no seats in front have me blocking smaller people behind me and/or bad viewing angle.

There are lots of great SD X264 encoding groups or individuals. The only problem is that they are spread around many sites and do site internal encodes. When those are not available I use e.g. TL or even at times public sites to find movies that are done better than their scene counterparts. On a site like TL you search for a movie, sort by size and exclude any of the 720 XviD and everything under e.g. 1.4GB depending on type and lenght of the movie. Pretty much if the scene release is 2CD, you should look for around 3CD size unless you find a X264 rip. I can't remember the last time I watched a scene encode of either action or horror that I was happy with.

BTW if you know of other sources for great rips than the regular ones, then please do tell.

[IdolEyes787]

I am over 6ft 6inches and my biggest problem is more the legspace in all the decent or good seats. Every time I've been to the cinema for the last 15 or so years, I have either been sitting quite uncomfortably or had terrible seats. All the ones with no seats in front have me blocking smaller people behind me and/or bad viewing angle.

Curse not the movie theatres for being blind to your concerns ,rather curse God for making you a freak my friend.

Also instead of worrying about blocking the view of smaller people maybe consider grinding their bones to make your bread.

[Night0wl]

Curse not the movie theatres for being blind to your concerns ,rather curse God for making you a freak my friend.

Also instead of worrying about blocking the view of smaller people maybe consider grinding their bones to make your bread.

Oh I'm not worried at all. I just download to my hearts' content, what I otherwise would be using my hard earned cash on. With the awesome quality bluray sourced non-scene movies I've been downloading for the last few years, I actually am starting to prefer watching movies in my living room with friends, rather than wasting money on the unfulfilling cinema experience.

I know you think quality shouldn't matter, but in reality I have a much broader selection to choose from than you, because the movie doesn't even have to be that good to enjoy it. Maybe for the wrong reasons, but who cares

[mjmacky]

because the movie doesn't even have to be that good to enjoy it.

There are 101 synonymous phrases that could communicate the same idea. Starting with some of the most obvious to the more derived:

-As long as it's HD, I like watching shitty movies.
-Ooh shiny.
-I think you should shit in my mouth first, because if it's already full of piss, the feces might float out.
-When I fall over and hit my head, it's over a 6 ft drop.

97 more to come!

[IdolEyes787]

because the movie doesn't even have to be that good to enjoy it.

There are 101 synonymous phrases that could communicate the same idea. Starting with some of the most obvious to the more derived:

-As long as it's HD, I like watching shitty movies.
-Ooh shiny.
-I think you should shit in my mouth first, because if it's already full of piss, the feces might float out.
-When I fall over and hit my head, it's over a 6 ft drop.

97 more to come!*

*My wife comforts me by saying something very similar to that after our lovemaking so I'm assuming that the same thing also applies to movies.*

* Of course my brain is pretty oxygen starved at this altitude so I might be hallucinating.

[whatcdfan]

I'm not going to quote like 50 posts in the thread but could someone throw me the reference to a release where a p2p has done a better encode compared to the scene.

Yes, absolutely, and a good thing too. If only a small group of people were allowed to upload only a few copies of anything then it would be much easier for the copyright trolls to focus their attentions. It is in all of our interests to encourage as many people as possible to upload, even to upload multiple identical and near-identical (and far-from-identical) copies of things. Not only does that frustrate the copyright trolls but it ensures continuity of supply of rippers/encoders/uploaders. The good ones always burn out eventually.

I disagree, guys at DMCA are not starving wanderers, they have enough information and resources at their disposal which could be used to focus anywhere anytime, even a regular torrentier knows a good bit of "where" and "who" respectively. They wouldn't be blinded if there are too many to spot, will they? so I'm not going to buy this theory. Supply wouldn't fall short either as long as their is demand and means available, I don't care to elaborate on this any further.

Having more sources then actually ever required at the cost of quality is unacceptable to me. A private trackers shouldn't be used as a testing/learning ground to make good encodes. It'll frustrate me far more then the copyright guys with that other equation. There should be some criteria quality wise to be able to upload stuff. IPT requires 150 kB/s up for the members to have when applying for the uploaders status, why is that? to facilitate the downloaders, right? still, who would want to download a shitty encode at that speed? It's also a complete wastage of time and bandwidth it takes to make encodes, upload 'em then download 'em and finally going back the comments page to yell at the uploader. Also, it hurts the retention rates of a certain release having too many encodes.

Yeah, it adds to the choices but it's only an illusion. If you're quality conscious, you wouldn't go on to watch everything encoded by some teenage, first time encoder. It's like five hens around amidst one chicken, it ain't serve as a choice if you're a gay. Yeah, they're free but still most of us can't spare six hours a day and 15/20 GB per release just to find the right encode even if they're unemployed and ultra-rich.

[mjmacky]

I'm not going to quote like 50 posts in the thread but could someone throw me the reference to a release where a p2p has done a better encode compared to the scene.

That's like asking for a place that sells better burgers than McDonald's.

[temisturk]

If you're quality conscious, you wouldn't go on to watch everything encoded by some teenage, first time encoder.

If you're quality conscious, you wouldn't be watching encodes, period.