My rule of thumb is to just wait till the blu-ray is released. Ill either get a remux or a very solid encode. Web-DLs can usually be found earlier than the blu-ray release too (usually like month, or a few weeks, before the BD release). I'm not saying rips or cams cant be "good quality", but I would rather watch an actual scene release or closer to the quality of a physical counterpart. I'd rather be patient and just wait for better releases.
I totally agree with this approach. Web-DL is good enough for me, but cam is really a non-starter.
It depends on the movie and how they market it. Usually once it hits streaming services good rips will be available very quickly.
Personally I don’t bother with CAMs or TSs, I’d rather wait until there’s a good rip.
Use Radarr, set the quality you want, watch stuff when it shows up.
If the movie is not available on any physical media or online streaming sources yet, the best you'll find is what's known as a cam, which is the dude sitting in the theatre in a hoody recording like you see in the warning of what not to do before the movie starts.
A lot of trackers don't allow them because the quality is so bad, I see them a lot on TL tho. I think they even have some exclusive releasers.
How do people not get caught recording? Wouldn't someone sitting near them notice?
Buddy I’m pretty sure people are getting jerked off at the movies, people probably relieved when the person next to them is just recoding with a camera.
If I have to sit still for any amount of time then I’m jerkin’ it
So THAT'S why you're no longer a bus driver!
Once it's released on a streaming service, quality private trackers will have it within minutes.
On rare occasions a high quality copy gets leaked early. But most of the time, all you’ll get is CAMs until the movie is released on a streaming service, then that will get ripped in full quality. This typically takes around 6 weeks these days. After that you wait another 6+ months for the Bluray release which is higher quality still.
Yep no magic to get movies early anymore, the people who upload them can get them when everyone else can.
Those pre-release DVD Screeners and early regional releases to compete with bootleg market are a thing of the past.
I found that Bluray rips can come earlier than the release date, but I assume that’s because of the time required to get the whole product supply chain up and running. And insiders can a copy of the physical disc early in that process. But for streaming, yeah same time as the rest of us.
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