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1080p Balanced

Overview

The 1080p Balanced profile provides an emphasis on space efficiency and streaming optimisation, while still retaining some audio and visual fidelity. It is available in 2 formats - Full and Single Grab. These formats affect only the immutability of the profile.

This profile prioritises high quality WEB sources i.e. Movies Anywhere, Amazon and APTV, with fallbacks to lower tier WEB sources - Netflix, Hulu, etc. After the weakest WEB sources, it uses the same release group ranking to find transparent encodes, then SD remuxes and encodes if nothing else is available.

In addition to tier 1 WEB sources, a special consideration for encodes by BHDStudio has been added to the scoring breakdown. While not preferred over the tier 1 WEB sources, they are ranked above any other Blu-ray encodes due to their emphasis on streaming optimised encodes. They are not ranked higher than WEB tier 1 sources due to their lack of subtitles. They're roughly equivalent to a high to mid tier WEB source in terms of fidelity. These encodes are extremely useful as many releases don't have a streaming option available.

Installation

Review the guide on Importing Profiles & Custom Formats to import the necessary custom formats and profiles inside your Radarr / Sonarr installation.

When prompted to select a profile, choose 1080p Balanced in your preferred immutability.

Score Breakdown

Resolution Source Codec Internal Audio Extras Indexer Flags Score Upgrade
1080p Movies Anywhere 220 500
Amazon Prime 210
Apple TV+
Disney+ 200
Netflix
HBOMax
Hulu 190
Peacock
Paramount+
Roku
iTunes BHDStudio 90
HD Tier 1 1080p Golden Popcorn 80
Stream Optimised
HD Tier 2 70
HD Tier 3 60
HD Tier 4 50
DVD Remux HD Tier 5 40
HD Tier 6 HDB Internal 30
SD Tier 1 SD Golden Popcorn
HD Tier 7 Special Edition 20
SD Tier 2
Blu-Ray h264 Atmos IMAX 10
WEBRIP Criterion
480p DVD Xvid FLAC 0
DD+
DTS
DD
720p BD Remux TrueHD Special Features -9999
2160p x265 DTS-HD MA
h265 DTS-X

A breakdown of each of the internal tiers can be found here: Release Group Tiers

Quality Profiles

Grouping Quality Profiles
Balanced Capable WEBDL-1080p
Bluray-1080p
WEBRip-1080p
Fallbacks HDTV-1080p
WEBDL-480p
DVD