Specialized Private BitTorrent Sites - ‘HD Video’

March 05, 2008 by sharky

It’s matter-of-fact that almost all BitTorrent sites carry movie torrents (if they know what’s good for them), and it’s not too difficult to find the High-Def (HD) video files in most cases. A simple query for x264 or 720p turns up some sweet LCD-friendly results in a public BitTorrent search engine. But very few (if any) offer a category devoted to HD - everything is just jammed into that VIDEO MOVIES pigeonhole. If you love HD as much as us, we feel your pain - finding a steady stream of high-res film releases on public BitTorrent sites is about as difficult as finding a Toshiba HD-DVD player that’s NOT on sale these days.

Private sites that strictly offer only HD releases fill a niche-market for us cinephiles. Never again do we have to wade through pages and pages of mis-categorized publicly-submitted flicks — all the while using every known trick-in-the-bittorrent-book to filter out the lowly KVCDs from the HDRips. Without further ado, we present a list of Private BitTorrent sites that exclusively deal in high definition video torrents.

We agree that the list is rather small, and the good ones aren’t regularly open to new signups. So to avoid feeling like we ripped off our viewers, we’ve come up with some tips & tricks for finding HD video - posted at the bottom.

HD TORRENT SITES

http://www.hd-bits.ro

— OPEN? - YES.Members: unknown.Ratio: 1.0 / 1.0.# of Torrents: 1,562.Features: Great site for HD torrents in ALL categories (lossless audio, TV, x264, Blu-Ray, documentaries). If you’re into HD, you’ll want an account here!

http://hd-torrents.org

— OPEN? - YES.Members: 2,846.# of Torrents: 454.Features: Great new tracker for all things HD! (Opened June ‘08). There’s lots of formats to choose from (720p, 1080p, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, x264) in a variety of categories (IMAX, pr0n, Anime, Docu’s, movies). HD-Torrents also offers a large selection of freeleech torrents, and even some nice ‘packs’.

www.hdtransmission.com

— OPEN? - YES.Members: 686/10,000.# of Torrents: 115 (for now).Features: HD-Transmission is a brand-new Hi-Def tracker to the scene (launched July ‘08), and tons of new torrents are added daily. HDT uses a karma system to be spent on invites and other special site perks. User limit is presently set to 10K - get in before they become ‘invite only’.

http://tracker.hdclub.com.ua

— OPEN? - YES.Members: 12,210.# of Torrents: ~900.Features: A Russian tracker for HD movies, lossless audio, TV torrents, IMAX, concerts, sports, documentaries…

http://x264.me

— OPEN? - NO.Members: 5,000.# of Torrents: ~2,300.Features: Never open publicly to new members; however ‘invites’ aren’t too difficult to find (surprisingly). While not exclusively an “HD” tracker, you’ll find some of the popular 0day XviD scene releases as well. Making ‘Power User’ at x264 is easy enough - just upload 25 GB and be with the tracker for at least 4 weeks.

http://hdtracker.ru

— OPEN? - YES.Members: unknown.Ratio: unknown.# of Torrents: unknown.Features: A Russian website - very difficult to navigate for us English! Offers both HD movies and music.

http://subtracker.net

— OPEN? - YES.Members: unknown.Ratio: unknown.# of Torrents: unknown.Features: Site is in German - no word on what the torrents are like. Click on the “Registrieren” button to signup.

http://hdcenter.ath.cx/signup.php

— OPEN? - YES.Members: unknown.Ratio: 1.0 / 1.0.# of Torrents: 200?.Features: Yet another German site. With an astonishingly good Alexa rank of #765 (could this be true?) we just had to sign up. Many torrents are dual-language (Eng-Ger); all categories of HD can be found (1080p, Blu-Ray…there’s even HD Pr0n!).

http://www.hdfrench.com

— OPEN? - NO.Members: unknown.Ratio: unknown.# of Torrents: unknown.Features: This private HD BitTorrent site is in French (as you may have guessed) and the registrations are closed for the time being.

http://hdbits.org

— OPEN? - NO.Members: unknown.Ratio: unknown.# of Torrents: unknown.Features: HDBits is closed for registrations right now (as they are most of the time). This site is a real sought-after account. If you can ever get in, treat it like gold.

http://www.bit-hdtv.com

— OPEN? - Sometimes.Members: 10,000.# of Torrents: unknown.Features: Keep checking back at this one, it’s notorious for opening for public signups unexpectedly.

http://scenehd.org

— OPEN? - NO.Members: unknown.Ratio: unknown.# of Torrents: unknown.Features: Another good HD private site. At last check, it’s closed to new signups.

See a site that’s not listed? Post it in the comments!

Other HD Sites / TV BitTorrent Sites

Most private TV / Movie BitTorrent sites offer a section devoted to HD. Check out some of these (our rankings from best to worse):

Other HD Tips

Here are some other (non-torrent) solutions for finding HD releases.

— http://www.rlslog.net - This is both a BitTorrent site and a Direct Download Link (DDL) site that offers many newer HD/Blu-Ray/x264 releases - 121 at last count. TIPS: For DDL links, look to the bottom of the “article” for each movie (be sure to read the posted ‘user comments’ as these often contain the most recent good links). For BitTorrent, look for a torrent link in each movie listing - it will appear like this:

— Use an IRC Search Engine to find HD files. For example, IRCDig.com came up with over 250 results for the query “x264″. Change the search parameters to Blu-Ray, HDDVD, HDTV etc. for additional results.

— Use a good DDL meta-search site to find Direct Download Links from RapidShare. For example, rapid-search-engine.com generated thousands of DDL links for the keywords “HDDVD”, “Blu-Ray” and “HDTV”. Not only that, but the results show the host DDL site, which you’ll be able to visit and browse.

— Got Usenet access? There’s a ton of High Definition files posted there. Use NZB search sites such as www.magnatic.com.

Above all else, be imaginative when searching for HD files. Our advanced search tips offer an enormous amount of resources.



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