So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 on DVD

So, I've finally finished making Season 5 DVD's. There are quite a few sets of changes and notes that you might all be interested in reading about (all of which are detailed below) but the most important thing is that this seasons set of DVD's look MUCH better than seasons 3 and 4. This has to do mostly with the fact that I used Badger's videos from IDF for most of the season rather than the usual torrents. The second reason is that I actually did more research into how to encode them better, DVD video is now encoded at 720p at 29.97 fps with AC3 audio at 192 kbps. Before I wasn't encoding progressive video sources correctly, so now it looks much better. Another reason why these look better is because they take up more space, I've put all 23 episodes onto 12 DVD5 discs and encoded all video using CCE Basic using a triple-pass VBR encoding to produce MPEG2 video that's closer to the high quality source videos. Lastly, for the first 5 episodes the DVDs have optional English subtitles that I've created.

As you can probably tell, these DVDs take in incredible amount of time and energy for me to create, you may make free copies for family, friends, or fellow fans as you wish. If you're going to re-distribute the discs online or whatnot, please do it at a reasonable price! At the end of the day, these are just DVD-R/DVD+R discs and they are fairly cheap to purchase. Please don't rip off your fellow fans by charging an arm and a leg to get a copy of this DVD set. I did not create these discs for myself or anyone else to profit off of, and if you catch anyone out there re-distributing these discs at a ridiculous price please contact me.

Now onto some technical information. Due to the audition and Vegas episodes being as long as they are, I decided to not force more than 3 hours onto a single DVD5. Ideally if I wanted to get the absolute best quality out of the high quality source video that I downloaded from Badger, I would need to stick about 60 minutes onto a DVD5 or no more than 120 minutes on a DVD9. DVD9 aren't cheap and a lot of DVD players still have trouble playing them. To conserve space yet retain quality, I decided not to put more than 2 episodes per disc this year, which really only results in having 1 more disc in the set than last year. Sadly, it's the cost of an extra disc but it looks SO much better now. I figure since we're in an age where more and more people are getting high definition tv's, you'd really be able to see compression artifacts if I tried to squeeze this onto 6 discs like I did season 3.

DVD information & Details:


How to Get DVD's:

Price is $36 flat for all 12 discs of season 5 shipped anywhere in the United States. Please e-mail me at siifuthun@yahoo.com if you want the discs shipped out of the USA or if you'd rather pick up the discs from me in person (you'll get a $3 discount). I can accept payment through paypal, check, money order, or cash at your own risk. If Fox ever releases SYTYCD Season 3, 4, or 5 on dvd, please throw these discs away and buy the actual dvds. If your total ends up over $45 you'll automatically get upgraded to priority mail shipping.

Disc & EpisodesMenu ScreencapsVideo ScreencapsEnglish Subtitles?Additional Notes
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 1 Episode 1-2

YesNone
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 2 Episode 3 & Extras

YesSubtitles are for episode 3 only.

Extras:

  • Janet Jackson "Rock With U" MV
  • Various Dancing With the Stars clips with SYTYCD dancers (view menu screencaps for entire list)
  • Season 4 dancers appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 3 Episode 4-5

YesNone
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 4 Episode 6-7

NoNone
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 5 Episode 8-9

NoNone
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 6 Episode 10-11

NoEpisode 10-11 are encoded from videos downloaded from bitorrent due to a drop in quality in Fox broadcast of SYTYCD is Badger's area which caused massive pixelation during strobe lights.
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 7 Episode 12-13

NoEpisode 12-13 are encoded from videos downloaded from bitorrent due to a drop in quality in Fox broadcast of SYTYCD is Badger's area which caused massive pixelation during strobe lights.
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 8 Episode 14-15

NoEpisode 14 is encoded from video downloaded from bitorrent due to a drop in quality in Fox broadcast of SYTYCD is Badger's area which caused massive pixelation during strobe lights. Episode 15 is from Badger's videos.
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Disc 9 Episode 16-17

NoNone
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Disc 10 Episode 18-19

NoNone
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 11 Episode 20-21

NoNone
SYTYCD Season 5
Disc 12 Episode 22-23

NoThe introduction on Badger's video for episode 22 was cut off, so I edited and inserted the missing intro using the video I downloaded from a torrent. Depending on your dvd player, you may experience a slight pause in the transition.


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