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8.5/8.5/8.5
Love the fact that a decent copy of this movie has finally surfaced.
Quality video and sound and the movies great...
Thanks MeekRab

Resized myself and it looks good.I went and seen this movie it is great a must see.

Vid--8
Aud-8
Mov-9

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Originally posted by Somnus
Now this is going to sound stupid, but I never cropped the bars out before. What do you use to do that? I just always accepted they were there LOL

Like I said.. stupid question.

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Not sure what everyones bitching about, the XBMC played it on my 16X9 flawlessly.

8/8/5- movie was boring as hell.

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v.8¼--sizing issue
a.9
m.9
great job besides the bar issue, but an easy fix none the less. GREAT movie, makes you think bout what the cia is really up to.

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Nice Post MeekRaB, keep up the good work! Picture and sound are Fantastic!

video 9
sound 9
movie ? (10% watched)

Thanx 4 the great copy.... Cheers!

v8
a8
film looked good ,couldnt get into it due to mother coming round ,but what i made out it was around a 8

Just to add some clarification on the "Black Bars"
The Black Bars are always present when watching widescreen content on 4:3 Display Units. They will be above and below the screen. Providing the picture isn't zoomed or stretched.

They will be on 4:3 content on widescreen Units, providing no zooming or streching. here they will be to the left and right of the image.

Getting rid of these bars is not the real issue, as some of us prefer watching movies in their OAR (orginal aspect ratio).

In the encoding process however, some rules hold true. Those black bars must be cropped. The cropping does not get rid of the bars or alter the ratio of the movie. It removes the very sharp line between the actual pictures and the black bars. This is what we are concerned about - the sharp line. For enconding, the sharper the image, the more detail visible, the harder the encoding app has to work to make the image look good.

Bitrate is almost always never enough, wasting precious bits just to maintain the "sharp line" is simply as waste. Improving overall image quality is the purpose of this rule.

Some of these rules are not explained. But they make good sense. If it were not for these rules, standalone video players may not have been so popular, bringing about devices that play divx/xvid for all of us. Some of these devices are budget units that have weak processors and do poorly when the resolution is increased. Which may need to be done to keep the "black bars", otherwise the overall resolution will be reduced to keep it compatible and yes - a reduction in image quality.

Having these rules bring about a standard that assist the "scene" to regulate the quality, this in turn will allow digital distribution to dominate over disc based distribution as the legal method to obtain movies in the upcoming years.

So noone else saw any blockiness with this release? So why would I be? Also it plays too fast on my DVD player. And seeing as how I have the Philips 642 (the most popular DVD player of them all LOL), its odd that no ones complained about that either. Is it possible my DL of it is corrupted eventhough it passed par2 and WinRAR's crc32 test?

Edit: Well, it was apparently the avi being joined that screwed up the release. I still have the original separate avis and there's no blockiness when I play them. so forget this topic I guess.

Apparently since the Video data rates of the avis are different (the other stats are identical though), they're not compatible for joining. And I'm not reencoding just get rid of the pause in between, I'll just have to live with it.


NUKED: AVI'S have different video data rates.