Taken from Slyck's Lingo of the TV Downloading Scene
- http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=695

Name of the Groups: LOL, LOKi, FoV, SFM, Fanta, CTU, CRIMSON, and FTV
These names will often be attached to the files. They identify who was responsible for the "rip". This allows downloaders to have an idea of what kind of quality the rip is going to be. Some are shortened versions of the names. For example FoV = Future of Vision, and SFM = SciFi Maniacs. LOL is one of the most active groups - with their captures of many of the more popular shows being some of the most wildly distributed. LOKi has also become quite popular of late, capping many of the popular shows that LOL hasn't. FTV was once one of the most common tags you would see on rips. They do MPEG-1 analog captures, and have become less popular in the last year or so.

Types of "rips"
Here are the most common tags you will see on TV episodes, discribing what kind of "rip" the episode is. HR-HDTV = High Resolution High Definition TV, HDTV - High Definition TV, PDTV - Pure Digital TV, and DSRIP - Digital Sateilittle Rip. The HDTV label is given to releases that are both purely digital, AND are broadcast at either 720p (60fps) or 1080i (30fps). The PDTV label is given to releases with purely digital sources with direct digital stream extraction such as via a DVB-{S,T} pci card or a HDTV card. This includes non-HDTV resolution digital transmissions such as the Enhanced Digital TV format used by Fox that is captured with an HDTV card. This does NOT include a captures from a digital source with an intermediate analog conversion, e.g. a digital satellite receiver box with S-Video out to a capture card. HR.HDTV is HDTV source (1920*1088,29.97i or 1280*720,59.94p), 960x528 WS resolution, and untouched AC3 audio.

These HR-HDTV captures are the highest quality and newest format to be found. It's no good to download these and watch them on a standard TV as it can not handle the high resolutions used by this format. They are for watching on a high definition TV or computer monitor set to a high resolution. Older slower PC's may have trouble playing these. They have begun showing up at some TV torrent sites, and ED2K hash link sites. It has even became possible to find some movies released in this HR-HDTV format.






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p/s : i reckon that you change the topic of this thread to better reflect the content..

"The naming convention of P2P movie files"

This post has been edited by fendii: Apr 14 2005, 04:53 AM