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Post #905933

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towne32
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Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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Date created
8-Feb-2016, 6:53 PM

EGOvoruhk said:

Harmy said:
Also, my master-file for the 1080p release would be somewhere around 300-400GB with my current AVI masters but since I’m planning to move to image sequences for master for v3.0, the master will probably be more like 1TB.
So I’m not likely to release that and anything else would already be a re-encode

I didn’t mean the RAW source, just similar to what TN1 is doing, using Chouonsoku’s x264 settings and releasing a verge large MKV that other encoders could use as a source. That way someone could make a BD50 with it, a small 480p encode, or anything in between

I think what was discussed in TN1’s thread as ideal (whether or not they actually do it), was releasing both:

  1. 50GB DL version
  2. 25GB cropped version.

No one wants the primary BD compatible format to be a ‘third party’ re-encode, even from a high bitrate file. Might as well get it right the first time for something that’s going to be sitting on people’s shelves as their go-to copy. And as Harmy said:

If your 2.35:1 TV doesn’t have a function to zoom in letterboxed video, so that it fits exactly I’d be very surprised, because that would be incredibly stupid, since all 2.35:1 Blu-Rays are released with black bars, and even all streamed media on iTunes, Netflix and Ultraflix and such have them AFAIK, so without this function there would be zero point to such a TV from the legally purchased media point of view.

I just don’t see the point of the cropped version.