i am not going to start anything but torrents are not hit or miss.
you look for what you want and download the torrent and you get what you want.
ideally Yes, that is how torrents are SUPPOSED to be
but you have alot of people who dont really know anything about video conversion trying to make a name for themselves (which is utterly pointless on the web) that choose the fast encode settings they can find to get the video out on the web as soon as possible whether it has been cropped, commercials cut, or has correct aspect ratio or not
so you look for what you want, find it, and it may STILL be a crappy, that has parts missing or some commercials still in
granted given enough time i would be able to find a video that is good quality, but at the cost of what? one HD episode can be over a gig!
or i can watch hulu, who always has the commercials cut out (and they encode from the source NOT tv) i can download it as fast as my computer can download (thanx to RMC) and i know that it will be around 230mb for and hour show and what the quality will be
thus i will say torrents are hit and miss because no matter what it says.... you just dont know whats in the torrent
and come on guys, we only watch the show once and trash it anyway! who cares if its semi good quality?
PS:
IDK why this would be important here... but if you DO want to rip your own movies from dvd use DVDFab and MeGUI to do it, it works great!
and the Aspect Ratios of 2.35:1 and 2.40:1 are both ACTUALLY 2.39:1 (check wiki
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OR if you are converting for PSP or whatever the below is most useful
so...
2.39:1 = 688x288 (closest possible ratio, 2.388888888889:1)
1.85:1 = 592x320 (dead on aspect ratio! 1.85:1)
EDIT:
Now movies are being released in 16:9 (or 1.777777777778:1) aspect ratio, standard HiDef WideScreen TV Size, so...
16:9 (1.78:1) = 512x288 (Dead on aspect! 16:9 or 1.78:1)
Alternatively, if 512 is to small, you can use 688x388 (very close aspect ratio 1.77:1)