proudly presents..
The.Wire.S03E09.INTERNAL.720p.BluRay.X264-REWARD
Release Date....: 06-2015
Genre ..........: Action | Crime | Drama
Source .........: Retail Blu-Ray
Video ..........: 1280x720, X264 CRF 19-20 @ 23.976fps
Audio ..........: DTS 1509kbps
Duration .......: ~60 mins
Link ...........: http://www.tvrage.com/The_Wire
Notes ..........: We got some requests to internal the episodes we didn't
win. We figured we might as well do everything again
using CRF with some more advanced settings and closer to
max allowed bitrates. As always, English stripped and SDH srts
are included in addition to vobsubs for all the languages.
Older productions are often a lot more grainy/"noisy"
(and thus less efficiant to compress) than shiny/smooth current
digital productions. Default/below default 2-pass with minimum
bitrates fail to deliver a very good result for such.
As a result, the 2-pass releases show some loss of fine detail
and grain texture. More evident in the encodes that used
the outdated HDX 2011 recommended settings (such as subme 7),
than in our somewhat more "modern" 2-pass ones.
We've included some comparisons in SXE01 on/for each season.
Play the game and you shall be rewarded!