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And as Aldo Raine says: "That might be my masterpiece."

The PROPER rip of Basterds is the cinematic equivalent of carving a swastika into a Nazi’s forehead. It doesn’t just show you history; it it.

When you watch a PROPER 1080p encode, you are participating in the film's central lie: That cinema has the power to correct reality. The group who released this rip didn't just copy a disc; they declared war on the previous encoder’s mistakes. Tarantino declares war on the previous century’s mistakes. Most streaming versions of this film use Dolby Digital. It’s fine. But the DTS track in this specific 2009 BluRay encode is a monster. Inglourious.basterds.2009.proper.1080p.bluray.dts.x264

Look at the strudel scene. In 1080p, you see the steam. You see the cream. But you also see the of the era—a ghost in the machine. That noise is the metaphor. The 1080p resolution is high enough to show you Shosanna’s tear, but low enough to remind you that you are watching a constructed reality.

But if you dig into Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds , you realize that this specific file name is accidentally poetic. It describes the film’s entire thesis. And as Aldo Raine says: "That might be my masterpiece

Because Tarantino loves grain. He loves the celluloid flaw. The PROPER 1080p BluRay encode (usually sourced from the VC-1 or AVC transfer) hits the sweet spot. It is sharp enough to see the blood spatter on Bridget von Hammersmark’s shoe, but soft enough to retain the filmic texture that 4K sometimes scrubs away.

File Name: Inglourious.Basterds.2009.PROPER.1080p.BluRay.DTS.x264.mkv The group who released this rip didn't just

Sound familiar? That is literally Lt. Aldo Raine’s mission statement. The "official" version of WWII (the one where Hitler dies in a bunker in 1945) is, to Tarantino, a BAD release. It is unsatisfying. The aspect ratio is off. The audio is muddy.

But you chose to search for the PROPER . You wanted the DTS audio. You wanted the uncorrected, high-bitrate 1080p truth.

That makes you like the Basterds. You looked at the standard release and said: "Nah, I want the version where they get it right."

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Virtual Platforms

Highlights

Acknowledgments

Digiteo
We would like to thank Digiteo that supported us in making the UNISIM virtual platforms available to the community.

Exhibition

HiPEAC
We presented a poster at the poster sessions of the HiPEAC'12 conference, January 23-25, 2012, Paris, France. The HiPEAC conference provides a forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers, and operating systems for embedded and general-purpose systems. The conference aims at the dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of international contacts among scientists from academia and industry.

On-going evaluation

OPEES
A UNISIM virtual platform of a Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT is being evaluated by project partners in the context of OPEES (Open Platform for the Engineering of Embedded Systems), a European project that aims to ensure long-term availability of critical / embedded systems engineering technologies to secure industry competitiveness and development.