//Ripper LENGTHY Notes:

Note on R5/TC's

Over the past 6 months the major movie studios have been releasing retail dvds early in Russia. They do this to stop the widespread use of pirated telecines (which were once very common). Lately however there has been very few real telecines, most of the scene telecines you see are actually R5 retails.

R5 retail is rushed out by the studio, they are basically competing with pirates, so there is little to no cleanup of the film after the telecine process. So the main difference between telecines put out by the pirates is that the r5's are done using pro equipment, professional studios and professional people. The quality of R5 retail is very similar to dvdscr's, no time is usually spent cleaning up dvdscrs either.

The range of quality we now have is like this.

R1/2 retail > DVDSCR > R5 Retail > Telecine > Telesync > Cam. Vhs scr and wps, come around the ts mark (obviously differs between rls).

We will be tagging future releases as follows:


Tag: R5 Example: Moviename.R5.format-group


We want to cut this bullshit, and just tag as R5, not as dvdrip, just a new category: R5.

Tag: R5.LINE Example: Moviename.R5.LINE.format-group

Any R5 retail, which hasn't got english audio will be synced to DIRECT LINE english audio and tagged as R5.LINE. In the past they have been tagged as TC (ex: Crank.TC.XviD-ZN) and DVDSCR(ex: Ice.Age.2.The.Meltdown.DVDSCR.XViD-DaNK).

Tag: TC Example Moviename.TC.format-group

Any illegally produced non studio telecine, should be tagged TC.

Basically we are sick of whats happening, somebody has to make a stand, just look at the whole pirates of the caribbean mess!