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What is YIFY?

A pirate group that was known for releasing movies in small files, but with a decent quality.

YIFY encodes were notorious for being bitrate starved to the point where good SD encodes trumped YIFY "HD".

true, but the overlap in quality between low/high resolution and bitrate encodes are neither historical nor limited to yify.

as someone that grew up with VHS and VGA; 2-3mbps h264 720p is fine and few practical gains above 5mbps 1080p.