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Psych.S01E01.720p.WEBRip.H264-DRAWER

Resolution..: 1280x720
Audio.......: aac

This is basically similiar to what's been done for years on Pee2Pee and known as WEB-DL.

Native HD video downloaded from iTunes with the DRM and metadata stripped and remuxed
into .mkv container. Video/Audio are untouched. There is absolutely no point to reencode
as the source is progressive and the file sizes are very "affordable". That's also the
reason for H264 tag and not x264.

The Good: Most of TV shows never see a Blu-Ray release. This is the closest thing
you'd get to a retail HD release. HDTV 720p caps are not regularly archived on many
sites and they have the all "issues" of a TV cap - screen spam from network, occasional
issues such as airing compression artifacts, encode filtering issues, no end credits
and so on.

The Bad: 1) Go prove you didn't just leech it off a Pee2Pee and scene'd it.
2) No rules
3) No site sections
4) Low tradability.

So why bother? Everyone likes high res and so do we. In this instance for example, the earlier
seasons of Psych
didn't even air in HD and unlikely to ever see a Blu-Ray release. The quality is not amazing but it's arguably
better than dvdrip. As with most USA channel shows Psych is also highly grainy and lacks the detail we are
accustomed to nowdays. Bottom line: We wanted to have it in high res and thought we might as well
share it too.

We have also muxed vobsubs from the dvdrip into the container. A lot of shitty players can't read those
but they won't break cause of them (as far as we know at least). OCR to srt from dvd subs is a ball
ache of
pain so this will have to do. Use smart players like XBMC, MPC etc and you too can enjoy the subs :)

Best way we thought of to work around "The Bad 1)" is a screenshot of our iTunes queue as it's downloading
the set. Seems like a decent proof we spent our hard earned money on the atrocity that is iTunes,
fruit of
the devil's spawn (aka crApple).

"In between the lines there's a lot of obscurity, I'm not inclined to resign to maturity"