Lack of HD titles as of late
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Thanks for the info.Just speculation here but if it's from the production side, it could possibly be due to makeup. Specifically, standard makeup looks bad on HD due to the increase in resolution picking up extra details, making it look caked up. Meanwhile, "HD makeup" requires different techniques and products.
The answer is DRM.
JAV is distributed using several methods: DVD, BluRay, download, and streaming all protected by some form of DRM. In order to get those movies to people like us for free the DRM must first be dealt with, there are 2 ways: DVR it or remove the DRM from the original file.
The DVR method involves that you screen record the movie as it plays in real-time therefore taking a very long time (the duration of the movie) and encode (lossy) to an output file. The higher quality you output to the more computer resources are needed. But the best thing about this method is that this works with all formats, DVD, BluRay, download, streaming, etcc. DRM or not, as long as it can be displayed on your computer screen it can be recorded.
The other method is to remove the DRM from the original file. This is the ideal way because it produces a lossless output and the process is very fast.
Removing DRM from physical copies (DVDs and BluRays) is easy. The specifications are standardized to be compatible with DVD/BluRay players (read: not proprietary) so once you figure out how to crack one you can crack them all. People figured out how to crack this a long time ago and so if someone has a physical copy, decrypting the movie is quite easy.
But nowadays JAV is primarily distributed through downloads and streaming. In order to crack the DRM on a downloaded file it requires you to connect a server and/or use a proprietary media player so its a bit tougher. But as with all DRM, time is the answer and eventually people figured it out. This is why even though HD has been available for a long time HD rips have only became available relatively recently. Yipman and others operated in this way, decrypting HD video downloads from DMM then distributing them DRM free to the public. But there has been some DRM implementation changes recently (about a month or two ago), putting people like Yipman at full halt until it is cracked once again.
In effect we been thrown back into the stone-age, before DMM’s DRM was cracked, leaving left only the low quality DVR rips and the occasional high-quality DVD/BluRay rips.
Well there you go. Hope that explains it.
JAV is distributed using several methods: DVD, BluRay, download, and streaming all protected by some form of DRM. In order to get those movies to people like us for free the DRM must first be dealt with, there are 2 ways: DVR it or remove the DRM from the original file.
The DVR method involves that you screen record the movie as it plays in real-time therefore taking a very long time (the duration of the movie) and encode (lossy) to an output file. The higher quality you output to the more computer resources are needed. But the best thing about this method is that this works with all formats, DVD, BluRay, download, streaming, etcc. DRM or not, as long as it can be displayed on your computer screen it can be recorded.
The other method is to remove the DRM from the original file. This is the ideal way because it produces a lossless output and the process is very fast.
Removing DRM from physical copies (DVDs and BluRays) is easy. The specifications are standardized to be compatible with DVD/BluRay players (read: not proprietary) so once you figure out how to crack one you can crack them all. People figured out how to crack this a long time ago and so if someone has a physical copy, decrypting the movie is quite easy.
But nowadays JAV is primarily distributed through downloads and streaming. In order to crack the DRM on a downloaded file it requires you to connect a server and/or use a proprietary media player so its a bit tougher. But as with all DRM, time is the answer and eventually people figured it out. This is why even though HD has been available for a long time HD rips have only became available relatively recently. Yipman and others operated in this way, decrypting HD video downloads from DMM then distributing them DRM free to the public. But there has been some DRM implementation changes recently (about a month or two ago), putting people like Yipman at full halt until it is cracked once again.
In effect we been thrown back into the stone-age, before DMM’s DRM was cracked, leaving left only the low quality DVR rips and the occasional high-quality DVD/BluRay rips.
Well there you go. Hope that explains it.
I guess it's not only the lighting & extreme close-up. The skin reacts on stress and so on. While the skin of some people doesn't react that much it does for others. Means if they had shot that movie maybe 2 days earlier or 2 days later she maybe would have looked different.
I thought they would have to re encode stuffs since all the newer HD release are now mkv. If they have to go screen capture DVR method from now on.... hope they can start using H.265 compression to further reduce the size.
Seems there aren't only not many HD titles now, but also a lot with very big watermarks. And SD + big watermarks = not much pleasure watching it. 
And as far as I can tell Chinese (or at least Chinese speaking) groups are the one with low quality and big watermarks.
And as far as I can tell Chinese (or at least Chinese speaking) groups are the one with low quality and big watermarks.
Yes, I totally agree. But still it's a fact that the number of HD releases is going back and the quality of SD releases is also going from bad to worse thanks to watermarks and other modifications.
Nice, but premium only 
Well at least we know there's still HD stuff floating out there somewhere
Well at least we know there's still HD stuff floating out there somewhere