On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:05:18 GMT, cooking <cooking@email.com> wrote:
>G.Hubbard,
>Unlike mainstream TV shows it's not common to see both 720p and 1080p choices for cooking shows.
>The "market" is quite thin for them, so there is little group competition to provide variants (thank goodness
>the w4f and btn groups exist). Related, on the receiving end one can't get all the shows from a single
>.nzb site, and most of the automated systems for tracking new releases are unreliable for "thinly"
>released shows. So, finding new releases is still a manual process, and it takes a fair amount of time to
>regularly check multiple sites for the shows captured. Further, I suspect many folks tracking a.b.m.cooking
>know most .nzb sites now don't carry cooking shows (because of the obfuscation that became the norm a
>year or so ago), only the "best" feed sites do, and almost all of them are closed to new members.
>Also, to be blunt, some folks still have data caps. So providing 1080p or higher versions does have a cost too.
>cooking.
>
Cooking,
And the funny thing is, the 720p rip WAS a quality rip not too long
ago. I remember how great it was when things went from VCD to SVCD,
then finally to XviD or MP4, with the resolution geting better little
by little. It used to be a dream to get your hands on anything much
better than a 480p release. Now, 1080p seems to be all over the place
and much more easily accessible. But you're correct - the data caps
still do mean balancing quality with gigabytes for me and why I have
settled with the 720p rips for viewing the cooking/food show posts.
-Jazzman
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