I think it might be source from iTunes?
I don’t think iTunes has it, but Netflix supposedly does:
https://www.netflixmovies.com/true-lies-1994
I don’t have a Netflix subscription, so I can’t see what the quality is like, or even if they really have it. They don’t give any technical details about the video stream, and there are no user comments at the bottom of the page.
It had NL subs so maybe it’s from NL.
It looks pretty clean, the pans are without any strobe.
Yes, the only subtitles it has other than English are Netherlands/Dutch, which suggests that whoever created the torrent was from the Netherlands. Whether or not that’s useful information for identifying the source, I don’t know.
If it came from a streaming site then the streamed source probably isn’t much better than the torrent file. Streaming sites usually use crap bitrates; far lower than a Blu-ray. One thing is for sure though: somewhere up the line a decent, progressive, HD transfer of this movie exists, and in the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, which is exactly what would be used to master a Blu-ray.
It was encoded almost exactly 3 years ago, so whatever the source was, it isn’t new.
Edit: According to a few posts I’ve found on forums, you can get True Lies in HD through VUDU’s “disc to digital” thing, whatever that is:
If you have the DVD, you can do a disc to digital conversion at VUDU and get the movie in Hi Definition.
It’s my go to version when I watch it, nice transfer with great sound.
The movie doesn’t show up in their catalog when you do a search for it, but it’s there when you do the disc to digital, or at least it was.
There are many movies that they have in high definition and OAR that aren’t available elsewhere, including many Disney titles.
And there’s also this assertion from the same forum thread:
True Lies came out in Blue Ray in the Czech Republic and Germany, years ago but not in the rest of the aria odd, can someone explain this.
Others on the thread dispute that claim though.