list your favourite HD release group

NsC? i haven't come across that very often.

also, if you've got problems with any of the specific release group feel free to share as well.
 
wow goldstone. nice list, but i've never seen 80% of those. i guess i'm just interested in the more popular ones that're good.and er... i'm not interested in porn groups either, which makes up a substantial portion of your list =s

these are the groups i'm familiar with:
1) ESiR - non-scene
2) CtrlHD - non-scene
3) ill - non-scene
4) NiX - non-scene
5) THOR - nonscene
6) hV - scene
7) CDDHD - scene
8) SZ - ?????
9) chakra - scene
10) sinners - scene
11) SEPTiC - scene
12) PRiDE - ?????
13) REFiNED - scene
14) PROGRESS - scene
15) REVEiLLE - scene
 
GoldStoNe said:
Look for non-scene releases, particularly CtrlHD, Esir and iLL. Their encodes are generally better compared to scene encodes. (But there are exceptions.) The reason is that scene groups race who would release first, thus compromising picture quality. A good rip would take hours to complete.
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Word, especially CtrlHD is releasing at a crazy pace for the moment (5-10 releases per day). But I'd mention Goldstone as well, because if you are the one who did the Smallville hddvd seasons, I love you for it :D

To be honest, there are quite a few single people or smaller and less popular groups over at HDBits who get the idea of quality rips and follow up with amazing results. Names? How about MMI, H2, HDL, NWO and more. Lets not forget ALANiS who are non-scene as far as I know but do the most amazing 720p rips.

While there are only very few non-scene groups known well enough (most of which release exclusively at HDBits), the concept of a highdef community works because a whole group of people is working together to maintain it and offer new stuff.
 
saulin said:
Which groups actually do 720p releases at 1280x768?

I see a few 1280x534 on Bit-HDTV. Some where much bigger than others too. I was just browsing for Iron Man and there was 1 at 2.56 gigs and one at 4.41 gigs and a couple at t 6.6 gigs which is probably the one I would get.

What's generally the size of a really good quality 720p release?

Sorry I'm new to this. Normally I'll just get DVD9 DVDs but HD rips are better quality so I might as well get HD rips since they are smaller than DVD9 DVDs as well.
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I'm also very curious about this, as I'm very new to HD too. I usually just go for the smallest size, and I always grab only 720p releases. The quality from what I've grabbed has always looked excellent(beautiful actually) to me. But would grabbing the larger file sizes of the same 720p movie mean better quality than the smaller file size?
 
fstrulz said:
There's a new internal group from BIT-HDTV called FraMeSToR -- their encodes have very high video quality and optional HD audio. IMO, they are the best out there right now (with all due respect to EuReKa and ESiR).
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Indeed. Framestor releases are amazing.
 
the best for me:
- p2p: esir, ctrlhd.
- scene: sinners, cinefille

plus wiki, don, eureka, hdbrise, septic, reveille......
and many others, i'm a big fan of 720p releases (the best balance between size and quality)
 
SEPTiC again haha.

looks like i might wanna concentrate on 720p over 1080p now since the difference doesn't seem to be worth the file size increase. would the increase in resolution from a 1080p be able to make up for a poor 720p encode? from what you've said, it probably wouldn't but i thought i'd ask just to be sure.

also, this's probably a little OT, but since it's my thread.. ;) issit safe to watch these plasma/LCD TVs at such close range nowadays? i sorta lost interest in TVs years ago so i'm a little rusty with the crt - lcd/plasma conversion era.

i think i've come across highdefforum before, but i didn't stay for long cus i realised alot of the threads were begs for hdbits.org invites. yeah it'll be nice to have a HD subforum, probably under the movies section. it's not like those discussion sections are heavily modded anyway; i mean, there's no point in enforcing strict rules about general discussion. there's an anime section, which is quite underutilised, so why not a HD section? there're clearly alot of people who need to be educated in HD, people like myself.
 
Mmh, there's another thing I have to clear up a bit. What makes a bad encode - or why do scene groups have this bad reputation among hd enthusiasts? Lets start from the other end: what makes a good encode? Little or no visible blocking, keeping the original hue/coloring, keeping the original details including any sharpness/blurring, keeping the original aspect ratio. What scene groups don't always get right are these details that do not necessarily make the movie look bad - but in comparison with the original or a proper encode those differences can be very obvious. The main goal an encoder aspires is to create a copy of a movie that looks just like the original ... and some groups fail in that task more often than others ;) It doesn't always mean the end result looks bad but it's not authentic enough for those enthusiasts.

athenaesword said:
also, this's probably a little OT, but since it's my thread.. ;) issit safe to watch these plasma/LCD TVs at such close range nowadays? i sorta lost interest in TVs years ago so i'm a little rusty with the crt - lcd/plasma conversion era.
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It is one of the distinct advantages of the digital display technology to be closer to the screen and still have a sharp enough picture.
 
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