RealDebrid giving me less headache lately since their nearest server is in Singapore. It is all down to how the routing is due to broken undersea cable. Back then Aldebrid doing really well

Yeah when you have debrid and found cached source, torrent peer count doesn't matter.

For me I always go for h265 followed by Dolby vision and Atmos (Sony TV and HTA7000). I don't really go for remux as sometimes it is just the multi lang audio being in it. Yes supposedly that's the highest quality video but non remux with well known group ripping it encoded it pretty well.

Night time aldebrid seems to have routing issue for my case since early of the year. Could be related to sea cable issue. Realdebrid for me stable even at night since they have singapore server. I use both RealDebrid and Aldebrid depending on what i want to watch since RealDebrid seems to block more content like certain season of CBS's Survivor USA series im watching with my family now. For hot and popular movies, i doubt will have prob getting cached source since likely other ppl have cached it before.

For the encoding, im not too picky as long as it looks right. Some content has fake or incorrect tagging like claimed DV but it doesnt map properly to my tv. However when trying another DV release for same movie ok pula in dolby vision bright/dark preset. Just need to see see mana works well but so far isnt troubling. Cant remember specific scene release group since theres too many.




I think i can live without acoustic center channel. On modern content that has been mixed well, it doesnt provide much diff. But when watching older 90s TV show i can hear vocals slightly better with it. I had mine default to on anyway. A7000 is overpriced actually. Samsung can provide similar performance with much much cheaper price since they bundle in woofer and rear upfiring speakers as well in the mix. I just got it for sake or matching everything Sony5. The only pros i have is i can connect PS5 direct to soundbar for 120hz+VRR and can control everything using remote TV (no need to rely on soundbar remote anymore).