Vizz.tv Exposed - A Review of the $24 TV Tracker

November 05, 2009 by sharky

Here’s one tracker you won’t be finding invitations floating around for, and that’s Vizz.tv. As many already know, this new TV tracker only offers membership through a $24 yearly fee. As luck would have it, we were fortunate enough to find a subscriber who granted us unconditional access. Presenting the Net’s first (and only) review of Vizz.tv, in which we explore if Vizz really lives up to the hype.

Vizz.tv has Scene Axx… So What

For those who follow public & private IRC #tracer and #pre channels - you may have noticed a new kid on the block - Vizz.tv. One thing is certain: Vizz certainly has scene access, and it shows in their pre times and overall number of races.

ScT

On ScT’s tracer channel, which has long been regarded as a reputable benchmark among private trackers who compete in ‘torrent races’, Vizz stats are as follows:

• Torrents raced: 1,248
• Been #1 - 62 times (4.97% win average)
• Been #2 - 125 times (10.02% average)
• Been #3 - 179 times (14.34% average)
• In Top 3 - 366 times (29.3% of the time, Vizz appears in the Top 3 races)

Trac3

Vizz is also listed at Trac3.me, a public preDb/trace website. As shown at www.trac3.me/?site=ViZZ, Vizz stats are somewhat similar to ScT’s - and perhaps more forgiving:

• Torrents raced: 4,002
• Been #1 - 346 times (8.65% win average)
• Been #2 - 589 times (14.72% average)
• Been #3 - 766 times (19.14% average)
• In Top 3 - 1,701 times (42.5% of the time, Vizz appears in the Top 3 races)

(The discrepancy in figures related to different torrent race statistics involves a variety of different factors, none of which we’ll even begin to explain). We should also note that Vizz is not listed at p2p-net.eu’s Tracers channel, for reasons unknown. But one thing is clear: Vizz is a competent tracker in reference to pretimes, at least for scene TV releases.

Vizz.tv Stats:

Vizz’ tracker lists a total of 6,500 torrents, although only 1,000 are active. It’s unclear if some of the total torrent stats are carry-overs from the old site Bitt.tv - but we would suspect so. Delving into the age of their torrents it appears that the "new Vizz" began getting serious about adding scene releases in mid-September.

Vizz.tv currently has 93 members and 1,028 active torrents, with in excess of 150 new torrents added daily.

The Bottom Line:

Scene access means fresh, fast content and the ability to add an insane amount of new torrents. Vizz doesn’t disappoint, and easily serves up ~150 torrents daily. However, all of the same content can be found on your favorite scene tracker (SCC, ScT, GFT) or even on ’scene/P2P’ hybrids such as TorrentLeech, RevolutionTT or IPTorrents. Is Vizz.tv worth paying for? Not a chance.

One anomaly that we noticed which needs to be fixed, is when we downloaded .torrents - they always append the https:// tracker to the announce URL, which clearly doesn’t work - Vizz has yet to set up a https tracker. For this, we were required to edit the announce and remove the ’s’ from the URL in order to force the torrents to connect to the tracker.

For $24 one would hopefully assume that Vizz would be a leecher’s paradise, especially if everything was properly hosted on seedboxes, which it isn’t. Ratio/H&Rs — No definitive evidence suggests Vizz is a ratio-free tracker (ratio is still recorded). Both their Rules & FAQ don’t shed much light on this being otherwise.

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