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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by ebb_earl_co on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:12AM (#39258222)
What is YIFY?
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Double_a_92 on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:19AM (#39258258)
A pirate group that was known for releasing movies in small files, but with a decent quality.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by scrlk on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:15AM (#39259911)
YIFY encodes were notorious for being bitrate starved to the point where good SD encodes trumped YIFY "HD".
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by geraldhh on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:10AM (#39272400)
true, but the overlap in quality between low/high resolution and bitrate encodes are neither historical nor limited to yify.

as someone that grew up with VHS and VGA; 2-3mbps h264 720p is fine and few practical gains above 5mbps 1080p.

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