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by saiya-jin 2587 days ago
Yify 1080p rips offer great quality for 99% of the folks out there (ie 55" screen with nice B&W speakers) and yet they are usually under 2GB. No disturbing encoding artifacts, pixelation in fast scenes etc.

You really don't need more. And if you do and have enough computing power, h.265 goes even further in smaller package.
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crtasm 2587 days ago
They achieve that by discarding huge amounts of detail from the image, compare a yify 1080p to a well made 576p encode and you may find them less acceptable. They look terrible to me.
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leetcrew 2587 days ago
honestly if Yify is transparent to you, more power to ya. you'll save a lot of disk space. I wouldn't watch a Yify encode on anything larger than my 13" laptop.

if you want to ruin yourself, try grabbing a Sparks and a Yify encode of your favorite movie and try watching one of the dark scenes in both files. the difference is plain as day on my 27" ips panel.

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bscphil 2587 days ago
Honestly I think the situation is even worse on a laptop. Unless you're pretty wealthy, you and probably most people you know have a TV screen that's small enough and far enough away from your couch that your laptop sitting in your lap actually beats it in pixels / degree. I've got a (old) 50 inch plasma set, and since I'm not sitting 4 feet away from it my laptop easily beats it.

On the other hand if you really can't tell the difference between a 2 GB encode and an average sized encode, say 16 GB, it's a good hint to make an appointment with your eye doctor. (I'm nearsighted, so I can't even tell 576p from 1080p on my TV without glasses.)

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