Family Guy Season 09: Lossless

Fox declined to comment for this article. But a low-level post-production engineer, speaking off the record, laughed when I asked.

"I have seventeen copies of Season 09. Web-DL. HDTV. Blu-ray remux. They’re all lossy in different ways. The Blu-ray has better video but the dialogue normalization is crushed. The HDTV capture has original commercials but a hiss on the rear channels. The true lossless? It’s like The Big Lebowski ’s rug. It would really tie the room together." family guy season 09 lossless

Consider the infamous "Bird is the Word" sequence in Episode 18. On a 256kbps AAC stream, it sounds like a loud mess. But users who claim to have found "lossless" samples describe a radically different experience: individual harmonies panned across six channels, a sub-bass kick that doesn't clip, and—most bizarrely— where Peter’s inner monologue runs counter to his shouted lyrics. Fox declined to comment for this article

"Lossless Family Guy ? Half the original Season 09 audio was recorded in a closet on a $40 mic. You’re looking for vinyl warmth from a photocopier. But let them search," he said. "It keeps the bitrate nerds from asking about Season 04." Web-DL