Hello. I have seen a few .NFO's over the past few weeks from groups who are releasing DVD-R movies. Last one i seen was lord of the rings, the groups basically get the retail DVD and do what the rest of us do with reincoding they then split the image with winrar and release them on the net. In pretty much the same way as Xbox, PS2, PC games and the like.

My question is not were to find them, i know thats against the rules but more along the lines of has anybody ever encountered one of these movies?, it sure would save me a lot of time (I am using a P3 600mhz to encode!) downloading them. Like most of you here I have no trouble finding anything, just these movies.

TIA for any replies.

Peace

Cal_G

To find these kinds of releases you would probably have to be or know someone in a release group.

They will typically be on private irc channels, dont even try to look you will never find them. If you goto a channel which is on an nfo file 99% of the time you wont even get a response.

When you come across such a film then you are looking at at least 85 to 95 rar'd folders @ 50mb each + a sample @ 50mb for quality control + sfv file for download accuracy!

also be aware:

take Resident Evil just for example {LOL yeah I know everyone has picked holes in this release}, well you only get the film (which may have been downsampled/but you wont notice unless you are a cyborg!) several features (ie extra trailers/features/comentry) removed to make the movie fit a 4.37gb dvd-r and not forgeting the nice DRS release group intro added which in 50% of dvd players screws up and stops playing {they should have put "skip the DRS title" sentance in the nfo to inform people of this prob} again the nfo should state what has been done to make the film fit! again be aware some groups don't tell the truth in thier nfo's to make themselves look good!

I have done a few myself a while back, on dsl it takes between 2 and 4 days to up one film, same if not longer for downloading!

Imo it's not really worth it unless you can't buy it but with the price and availability of NEW dvds, around £7 - £10 now/£12 - £15 for newer stuff {check out www.play247.com} I would rather have an original dvd9 than a dvd-d without all the extra features and no cover, plus the time of dloading (unless you have a nice t-1 or t-3 connection).

darren™

that true but m8ty do u honestly sit there and go through the extras and the mind numbing commentry :(, and not all new dvds are dvd9 (ie dual layered ) :)

oh I agree, I can say I rarely watch the extras and listen to the directors commentry *yawn* {a feature only film students probably use lol} ....With the right software, time, patience and knowledge it's possible to do a full backup of a dvd9 - dvd5 see doom9.org but all the rips I do are "film only" and with releases they insist you have as much of the original as possible.

plus something I do find funny (which is what you pointed out) is allot of rental only dvd's are dvd5! and then when they get released they get all the extras etc etc and are on dvd9!

well u can get a lot of backup dvd silvers which are pressed that are dvd9 , , but if you backed up a dvd9 to a normal 4.7 g disc , wot would you leave (dolby digital soundtrack5.1 )which i need so badly to run my home cinema setup:) . it just makes a good film badder:)