Battlestar Galactica Miniseries (2003) [720p] x264 - Jalucian

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314979


IMDB RATING: 8.5


Plot:

A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth.



CONTAINER....................................: MP4
FORMAT..........................................: X264
GENRE............................................: Drama/Sci Fi
FILE SIZE........................................: 854 MB/808 MG (1.62GB)
RESOLUTION...................................: 1280x720
BITRATE MODE................................: Variable
AVG. VIDEO BITRATE.......................: 1000kbps
AVG. AUDIO FORMAT/BITRATE.........: AAC/160kbps (96kbps for Director's Commentary Track)
CHANNELS......................................: 2, Dolby Pro Logic II
SAMPLING RATE..............................: 48.0 KHz
FRAME RATE....................................: 23.976 fps
LANGUAGE......................................: English
SUBTITLES......................................: English
RUNTIME.........................................: 1:34:39/1:29:30


Notes:

This is the 2003 miniseries in 720p resolution which preceded the four season show which was a remake (and improvement) of the original series from 1978-79. I have included a second selectable audio track for the Director's Commentary. The primary audio is 2 channel Dolby stereo @ 160kbps and the Director's Commentary track is 2 channel Dolby stereo @ 96kbps. This a two-part (and thus two file) miniseries, which is why some of the above stats have double entries.

Also, the visible "grain" in the video is intentional and is not an encoding error. The makers used chemically treated film to achieve this affect in order to give it a gritty, war-time documentary feel.

Bitrates listed are variable, using multi-pass encoding for maximum quality, which means the numbers you see are average bitrates.

Please note that my bitrates and file sizes are optimized for those who store and watch movies on their computers. The bitrates are high enough to look perfect on "normal" sized monitors and low enough to keep download times short and the file size small enough for those who have limited hard drive space to work with. If you plan on watching something on a large HD screen, you're going to need one of the larger file size, higher bitrate torrents. The larger the screen you'll be watching on, the higher the bitrate has to be to maintain picture quality. If you have a large screen, you'll need to experiment too see what bitrate it takes to maintain a quality picture for your particular size screen.

So far as I can tell, this is the only torrent of the miniseries in 720p resolution that's a reasonable file size *and* contains the second audio track containing the Director's Commentary, so please seed for as long as possible, preferably until reaching a share ratio of at least 3:1.