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#1495675
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Halloween [spoRv] *BD-25 RELEASED*
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AdmiralWasabi10191 said:

Guess I fucking don’t, and will be “wasting” my money instead of holding out on another fan-made disc. Link me to this spectrogram instead of only typing about it. Unless whoever ripped it from the 4K disc grapped it as FLAC and not DTS-HD MA…
Otherwise, I don’t care.

This is the last time I’ll spoon feed you.
https://imgur.com/OtEQhwK
https://imgur.com/HhHl2P5
And flac is still lossless

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#1477661
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The Simpsons: Embiggened Edition (* on hiatus *)
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woodsyallen said:

I’m currently in the process of re-ripping all my DVDs because I found out the versions I ripped years ago I forgot to encode the surround audio. The benefit is that Handbrake has better settings now so I can make better quality rips.

That said, I still don’t really know what to tick beyond the obvious pre-sets. If anyone has any suggestions I’d love to hear them!

My current solution is to take the Fast480p30 preset, make sure to encode at “same as source” frame rate, and turn on “animation” tuning. But if there’s any other suggestions I would appreciate the advice.

Use MakeMKV, and keep the raw MPEG-2 files

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#1470759
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Info: Recommended Editions of Disney Animated (and Partially Animated) Features
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Doctor M said:
I’m not a huge fan of HDR. I completely believe it’s the modern equivalent of colorizing a black and white film.
You are extracting light levels and colors from a film print (or in this case a computer) that the original creators had no expectations people would see.
I don’t understand why more purists aren’t against it since it isn’t the intent of the filmmakers.

I think a big problem with HDR, and a lot of reason people don’t like is less poor mastering (though there’s plenty examples of this and it certainly doesn’t help) but rather many people’s equipment. It’s meant to be viewed in a dark room, and it’s not like SDR where you can just turn up the backlight to accommodate a brighter room. Add to that most people don’t have high end displays that can get bright enough and/or have poor tonemapping, and most definitely not calibrated to reference levels, it can make HDR look very bad compared to SDR.
Dolby Vision tries to fix some of this, and does to some extent, but overall you’re not going to have a super great experience if your display isn’t up to the task

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#1468266
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Info: Films re-released with alterations
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Charles Threepio said:

Most releases of Iron Man, with the sole exception of the IMAX Enhanced version on Disney+, replace a photo of Iron Man on the front page of The Chronicle at the end because of a rather complicated lawsuit filed by a leaker over that photo.

I never knew about this. Kind of a crazy story, it’s weird that it’s on the new D+ version.