George R R Martins A Game Of Thrones 20 (c2c) (2014) (Empire-Adventurers) cbr (- Nem -)

Thanks.

Thanks

You're plain wrong, as far as I can discern. If you actually look at the Adventurers and GreenMan releases at magnification, instead of making the pardonable assumption that bigger must be better, it's quite obvious that that assumption is wrong in this case.

I'm too clueless to be able to tell exactly what the underlying reasons may be (better paper copy, better scanner, better software, or simply better know-how), but the GreenMan scan clearly has the higher definition of the two, as well as the nicer palette, and if there are any compression artifacts, I sure can't spot them. The Adventurers release gives us for the inflated filesize is a pristine encoding of a mediocre original, which is kinda pointless and has nothing to do with "HD". And if you were to re-compress that one to the same size as the GreenMan version, you'd find that the quality doesn't noticably suffer, which is pretty much the definition of being undercompressed.

Assumptions are blind; it's for you to use your own eyes! :)

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ETA: Actually, what am I doing using a thousand words where two pictures would do a much more convincing job - BRB.

Sorry, took a bit longer than I anticipated, but this makes the case quite nicely, I daresay:

Bigger is better... except when it isn't: A Case Study