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Post #905938

Author
EGOvoruhk
Parent topic
Harmy's RETURN OF THE JEDI Despecialized Edition HD - V3.1
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Date created
8-Feb-2016, 7:20 PM

towne32 said:
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.

Agreed, I would much prefer a BD50 from Harmy than some random person upscaling in on MySpleen

towne32 said:
I just don’t see the point of the cropped version.

This is for PC, not a TV. I use MPC-HC with madVR/NNEDI3 for most video playback, I’m not aware that I can remove the black bars. The only point of black bars is to meet the Blu-ray spec, there’s no point in keeping them in otherwise, and you can end up with encoding anomalies around the borders of them. Most proper digital releases will remove them, eg all iTunes movies are anamorphic (I’m not still going on about removing them, just providing points that you can’t see)

That being said, I’d much rather have a BD50 than an anamorphic MKV. It would serve far more people than just the niche Ultrawide crowd