About a year back, we posted an article on FILEnetworks Blog about a specialized HD private torrent tracker by the name FraMeSToR-HD. It was a project started by the veteran P2P movie encoder group FraMeSToR. Today, a year later, FHD is undergoing some massive changes. First and foremost, the site is now called BeyondHD – they have moved to a new domain, a new visual theme and is pretty much a different site in terms of looks. More importantly, it is now essentially a ratioless tracker powered by the newly implemented “Download Credits” (DC) system. Despite these changes, BHD remains to be a specialized tracker for high definition content including 3DBD, BD25, Remux & other Blu Ray encodes, 720p,1080p/1080i movie and TV shows and even lossless FLAC music. If you are interested in joining, signups are now open for a limited time.

The switch from Framestor-HD to BeyondHD seems to have gone smoothly. All existing user accounts and torrents have successfully been migrated over to the new site. As of 6/2/2012, BHD now tracks ~3000 active torrents and has a registered users base of 6700+ members. Quoted below is what BHD site admins told FILEnetworks Blog about the new changes:

Well what's changed, we're running our puppy on a heavy modified xbtitFM you can safely say we're the first ratioless HD Tracker*. Instead of a ratio system our coder implemented a Download Credit (DC) system. New members get a 50000 DC bonus to start Users can donate and get VIP time ( FL ) or can buy DC points. For example when you download a torrent, you will first see the download check system come up with stats similar to below:

• Your torrent file is ready for download
• Your Download Credits:   128,025   
• Download Credits after download:   117,025  

HD VIPS will NOT be charged , this is already calculated in de numbers you see. If the file is 100% / 75% or 50% free leech , it will cost you 100% / 75% or 50% less Download Credits.

Just like before we still don't allow Scene x264 HD releases and we're going to keep it that way. Don't get me wrong we got nothing against the scene we love those guys let's say we got
different opinions when it comes to encoding.. ;)

*There was previously a ratio free private HD tracker by the name SceneX. However this site is now defunct, making BeyondHD the only functioning ratio free HD tracker currently in existence.

One of the mains reasons behind the change over from FHD to BeyonHD seems to invite more internal encoders other than Framestor in to the tracker and beef up the number of available releases:

Our idea is to bring you a huge number of quality content, not only by us, but also by other quality groups or sole encoders who share our vision. That's why we are going to change our site name from framestor-hd.org to beyondhd.org. We believe that this will open up the gates to welcome more new encoding talent and we could have a lot more available content.

That being said, there are quite a few internal encoder groups already affiliated with BeyonHD:

• FraMeSToR - 1080p encodes, REMUX and BD25
• ALeSiO – REMUX
• FASM - 720p / 1080p MP4 h264 and 1080p PS3 encodes
• NiBuRu - 1080p encodes
• LoNeWolf - 1080p encodes

Some of the releases available on BHD can be seen in the screenshot below:

If you are a fan of HD content, you will naturally want to join this tracker. Thankfully, BeyondHD administrators are starting up by re-opening signups which have been closed for the most part of last year. Be warned that open signups won’t last forever – get in while you can.

Site Name: BeyondHD(http://www.beyondhd.org)

Signup URL: http://www.beyondhd.org/index.php?page=account

Special thanks to BeyondHD administrators and staff for the excellent support given.

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HD-Torrents is currently open for signup. After yesterday’s open registration at HDChina, one could say these are good times for fans of HD content – but some of you might disagree, especially if you are one of the many who got disabled due to inactivity over at HDT. Couple of days ago, HD-Torrents admins launched a massive operation to to purge inactive accounts from the tracker. As a result over 7500 accounts were disabled due to inactivity – this was effectively one third of HDT’s users base. But that’s not all, signups at HDT have been opened once again to fill the vacated ranks with new blood. For those of you hearing about this tracker for the first time, HD-Torrents is a veteran specialized HD torrent site indexing high definition movies and TV shows including scene, non scene and internal releases. Open signups at HDT is quite a rare occurrence so get in while you can.

At the end of last month, there were around 22000 registered members on HD-Torrents. Fast forward three days into October this number has fallen towards 14000. Over 7700 accounts were disabled for inactivity – this is one tracker where just logging in once a month to keep the account active is not going to work. To quote the official rules:

• If you have a combined download total in excess of 25 GB and your ratio is below 0.70 you will receive two consecutive warnings. Failure to act upon the warnings and increase your ratio above 0.70 will get your account disabled.
• You are required to download at least 15 GB each quarter (90 days). Each quarter starts respectively on 1st day of January, April, July and October and ends on the last day of March, June, September and December. If on the 26 day of the last month of each quarter you are bellow the 15 GB minimum, you will receive a reminder. If on the last day of the quarter you still do not meet the requirement, your account will be disabled

It’s highly likely that it was the minimum quarterly download requirement of 15gb that doomed many of the disabled members. If you are thinking of creating an account here, do not forget about the two rules quoted above.

Coming back to the content indexed on HDT, it is in fact a pretty good HD tracker. With over 13500 torrents and an active seeder/leecher community (most popular torrent on this tracker has over 500 seeds), HD-Torrents is a good place to be if you love high definition content. It tracks lots of 720p and 1080p releases (in x264 container), untouched Blu –Ray, Blu-Ray Remux, etc ranging from movies, TV shows, documentaries, anime to even some high quality lossless music. There are a lot of p2p releases indexed (in addition to scene releases) including some uploads by internal encoder groups which include HiDt (which includes EuReKa who formerly released on Awesome-HD), ViSTA™, DNL, HDMaNiAcS & KRaLiMaRKo.

As said in the title of this post, signups for HD-Torrents are currently open. An official post by administrators on the homepage says:

Dear members, we moved HD-Torrents to a new server and we decided to open the tracker for registration to a total limit of 38,000 members. The site will open at 16:00 GMT on 03.10.11

It is not clear if the site would stay open until the user limit of 38000 is reached (that leaves around 24000 free spots up for the taking). However, if you like HD content, here’s a good opportunity to be part of a decent HD tracker.

Site Name: HD-Torrents (http://hd-torrents.org)

Signup URL: http://hd-torrents.org/account.php

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We are one whole day late in publishing this news but if everything goes according to plan HDChina’s open signups will continue until midnight on 3rd of October 2011 and everyone will have plenty of time to create an account on this awesome HD tracker. First things first – as the name suggest, HDChina is a private tracker that has Chinese origins. But that doesn’t mean it would be useless for those who seek to download English content. HDC in fact tracks a lot of English releases (including scene, non scene and tracker exclusive uploads by affiliated groups) in addition to local content. It is a massive HD tracker that every serious fan of HD content should definitely be a part of. Last time this tracker opened signups was back in February 2010 – which is more than a year ago. This time around they have a limited open signup to celebrate National Day in China.

Although not very popular in the western world, HDChina is a huge private tracker and is one of the largest HD trackers ever. At the time this post was being written there were over 46500 registered members on HDC and it also had a mammoth sized torrent index with over 33000 HD torrents. The reason for it’s relative lack of popularity in English speaking countries might be the whole ‘Chinese connection’. After having a glance at the signup page filled with Chinese characters, many people seem to turn away, assuming this to be a BitTorrent tracker with releases local to China. This however is far from the truth. Majority of the content indexed on HDC are in English language including international releases such as Hollywood blockbusters and HDTV shows aired in the US and UK. Even the site interface can easily be switched to English if required - Once logged in, just click on the English flag icon on the top left corner of the page to change the language. Also note that this site labels almost all torrents including English only releases using both Chinese and English wording. So just know that a torrent having a Chinese label doesn’t mean it’s a Chinese release.

As far as the content goes, HDC is movie/TV tracker. A list of categories and video formats found on this tracker are summarized below:

• Movie: Blu-ray, 1080i, 1080p, 720p
• TV Episode: TV EP (CN/HK/TW), TV EP (JP/KR), TV EP (US/UK)
• TV PACK: TV Pack China (HK/TW), TV Pack JP/KR, TV Pack US/UK
• Others: Sports, Animation, Documentary, Music Video
• Audio: Lossless, Audio Track

Individual releases (which include 0day uploads) are accompanied by large torrent packs. These are pretty huge, with some packs exceeding 400GB in file size. Additionally, this tracker has no shortage of exclusive uploads thanks to the shitload of affiliated P2P groups that release on it such as HDChina, HDCTV, LU9998, iHD, CtrlHD, beAst & HDS, KiSHD and Pa@Ph. A screenshot capturing part of the torrent index may be found below:

While creating an account on HDC will be easy thanks to the open signups, keeping it from getting disabled would be a harder task. HDC is serious about user activity and all new users are automatically checked by the system after a specific period of time and immediately disabled if minimum upload/download and bonus points requirements are not met. Quoted below is the official announcement:

1. HDChina Will Open for register to celebrate the National Day.
To celebrate our 62nd National Day, HDChina will open for register from 0:00 1st Oct 2011 - 24:00 3rd Oct 2011 and all torrents will be freeleech in this 3 days. We always do our best to provide more HD resources and hope you can experience of a better High-Definition life here.

2. New Check-up system for Newbies
From now on, all newbies must take part in our new check-up system (including open-registration and invitation) to improve the quality of our members.
1.If failed to meet the following requirements, new users would be banned after 30 days from the date of registration, regardless of signing up though invites or open registrations. Further, a new account created by open registration with no upload or download behavior in the first 3 Days will be banned, while 7 Days for Registration through invitation.
2.You MUST 30G Achieve the minimum for both uploading and Downloading Amount as well as gaining "seeding" no less than 4 000 Bonus Points in 30 Days from the Date of registration. These conditions shall be met simultaneously or you account will be banned.
Note: Donors, VIPs, uploaders, encoders, or users with higher rank are excluded from the above check-up system.

-HDChina Staff-

If the above was TLDR, here’s the summary of requirements that a new users needs to fulfill in order to keep his HDC account:

1. A new account created by open registration with no upload or download behavior in the first 3 Days will be banned
2. After 30 days from date of registration, you account should have a minimum of 30GB uploaded, 30GB downloaded and 4000 bonus points.

Signups will be open till the 3rd of October or till HDC hits its maximum user limit of 50000 members (3000 more spots remaining at time of this posting). Keep in mind that confirmation E-mail is in Chinese and will most likely land in your spam/bulk mail folder (tested with Gmail).

Site Name: HDChina (http://hdchina.org)

Signup URL: http://hdchina.org/signup.php

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If you were one of the older members of the private torrent tracker HDAhoy, you probably already know that the site is inaccessible over its usual URL hdahoy.org. In this day and age when domains of file sharing sites getting seized left and right, this probably would have caused some panic amongst the sites regular users. However, there is no reason to worry – HDA wasn’t raided nor was their domain seized. It appears that the domain expired and according to a news post on site staff are seemingly unable to get it back. Good news however is that the site is now accessible under a different domain name; Hdahoy.net. There is no data loss and old user accounts and torrents are all there. If you are a new user, HDAhoy is currently open for signup as well.

For those hearing about HDA for the very first time, it’s a private torrent tracker specializing in high definition content. Launched a couple of years ago, the site currently tracks 6000+ active torrents and has an active users base of 5500+ registered members. HDA is one of those trackers powered by Gazelle tracker codebase.

Speaking of the content, HDAhoy tracks movies, TV shows, documentaries and some music videos. All of the indexed releases are high definition encodes (usually in 720p and 1080p quality). R5 Bluray Rips, Up scaled Videos, RAR/ZIP Archive Files, Youtube videos and all other non HD content are prohibited from being uploaded. Some of the torrents indexed on HDA can be seen in the screenshot below:

As mentioned earlier signups for HDA are open right now. Current maximum user limit is set to 10000 users. This leaves space for another 4500 new members, provided the signups do not close early. If you are looking for a new HD tracker, check this out.

Site Name: HDAhoy (http://hdahoy.net)

Signup URL: http://hdahoy.net/register.php

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For anyone obsessed with full DVD, Blu-Ray movie or TV torrents, BitHQ is a must have tracker. It’s a private torrent site specializing in untouched content (no rips – only indexes full disk releases with no modifications) and is one of the largest trackers catering to this niche along with TDC and Sparvar. During its 3+ years of lifetime, BitHQ has for the most part been an invite only community. However, during the past couple of months the site appeared to be having random open signups from time to time, although there was no official acknowledgement about this either on site or on forums. Judging from the feedback we received, some readers were able to sign up while others were greeted by an invalid invite code message. Good news is that BitHQ is now officially open for signup – a new item posted on site homepage mentions that the site will be open to the public until further notice.

If memory serves correct, BitHQ began its operations back in 2008. Like all new torrent sites, it started small but soon built a following of several hundred active members and some decent uploaders who propelled the tracker forward. Today in 2011, BitHQ has grown steadily to become one of the largest untouched DVD/Blu Ray trackers in existence, with over 7500 registered users and 12000+ indexed torrents.

Initially, BitHQ was limited to tracking mostly untouched DVD 5 and DVD 9 torrents only. Even today majority of the sites torrents are DVD releases but they have caught up with the times and moved into the Blu Ray release scene as well. BitHQ now tracks over 800 full BD25 and BD50 uploads along with thousands of other 720p/1080p high definition video and DVDR releases. As for the content, pretty much everything including full TV series, English movies, foreign movies, classic TV series and some sports content can be found here. All of these come with extra features, full menus, bonus features and other goodies found in the originals. Some of the largest torrents indexed on BitHQ can be seen on the screenshot below:

Coming back to open signups, quoted below is the official acknowledgement posted on BitHQ’s homepage:

Open Sign-Ups
We have gone into a period of open sign-ups. If you know somebody who you would like to be a member, or they would like to be a member, let them know that they can sign up right now!
We will inform you when we go back to invites only.

To put it short, this is a great site to have if you like downloading untouched DVDR and Blu Rays. Get in while you still can.

Site Name: BitHQ (http://www.bithq.org)

Signup URL: http://www.bithq.org/signup.php ( leave ‘Inviter’ and ‘Promotional Code’ fields blank )

Special thanks to Stephen for the heads up.

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UPDATE2: BD25.org has re-opened registrations for a week. More details after the jump.
UPDATE: Article updated with CHDBits opening interviews for international members. See end of post for details.
Blu Ray and HD torrent trackers – who doesn’t like them. Of all the private trackers we’ve featured on this blog, trackers specializing in high definition (HD) content seem to have the largest following - If you are one of the fans of HD content, you’ll probably like this post. Todays’ article features 6 private torrent trackers that specialize in untouched Blu-Ray, 3DBD, BD25, Blu Ray Remux and other video with 1080p, 1080i and 720p quality. These sites index plenty of movies, TV shows, documentaries and in some cases even sports and anime all in true HD formats. All trackers featured in this article are either directly open for signup or accept new members by an alternate means such as via an online invite application. As usual, we have included signup URLs, updated statistics, summarized description and a link to a full tracker review with each entry.

We highly recommend you read the full tracker review before signing up for a particular site.

Framestor-HD
 
Site Name: FraMeSToR-HD (http://tracker.framestor-hd.org)
Signup URL: http://tracker.framestor-hd.org/index.php?page=signup
Stats: ~6000 users and 860+ torrents
Description: FHD is a new private tracker launched by the crew behind veteran P2P movie encoder group FraMeSToR. This has so far been one of the fastest growing trackers in year 2011. FraMeSToRs’ tracker specializes in high definition content including 3DBD, BD25, Remux & other Blu Ray encodes, 720p,1080p/1080i movie and TV shows and even lossless FLAC music. Check out the full review for screenshots and a detailed overview.
Full Review: [Click Here]

Blu-Bits

Site Name: Blu Bits (http://www.blu-bits.com)
Signup URL: http://www.blu-bits.com/index.php?page=signup
Stats: 6000+ users and 1600+ torrents
Description: An underrated yet an excellent resource for all things HD. Blu Bits indexes movies, TV shows and documentaries including full, untouched Blu Ray uploads, Remux, BD25 encodes and other video with 1080p, 1080i and 720p quality. Read full review for more information. It’s surprising this tracker hasn’t received much exposure given the impressive content.
Full Review: [Click Here]

Blu-Torrents

Site Name: Blu Torrents (http://www.blu-torrents.net)
Signup URL: http://www.blu-torrents.net/signup.php
Stats: 4300+ users and 415+ torrents
Description: Blu Torrents specializes in Blu Ray video content that are untouched and whole. These files are not ripped, compressed or modified by any means and you get to enjoy high quality video along with special features and extras that are in the original Blu Ray disk. See here for additional information and screenshots.
Full Review: [Click Here]

HD-Bits.Ro

Site Name: HD-Bits.Ro (http://www.hd-bits.ro)
Invite Applications URL: http://www.hd-bits.ro/application_form.php
Stats: 13000+ members and ~5000 torrents
Description: HDbits.Ro tracks scene and P2P HD video releases such as movies, TV shows, Documentaries including exclusive uploads by their internal encoder group HDBRise. Although direct open signups are unavailable, users can get in by filling and submitting the online invite application. Read this for a detailed overview of the invite app process.
Full Review: [Click Here]

BD25

Site Name: BD25 (http://www.bd25.org)
Signup URL: http://www.bd25.org/index.php?page=signup 
Stats: 1000+ members (at last check)
Description: BD25 is a private tracker that specializes in Blu Ray releases. The site aims to index a lot of untouched or re-encoded BD25, BD9 and BD5 torrents, focusing on quality over quantity. This site is a project by the crew behind EuReKa HD encoder team. For more information, check out the full review.
Full Review: [Click Here]

THDBits

Site Name: THDBits (http://www.thdbits.org)
Signup URL: http://www.thdbits.org/signup.php
Stats: 5800+ users and 2500+ torrents
Description: THDBits claims itself to be Thailand’s largest HD tracker (which it probably is). The site tracks a mix of Thai and English content including movies, TV shows, music videos and sports content. Site interface is English.
Full Review: N/A

CHDBits

Site Name: CHDBits (http://chdbits.org)
Invite Application Details: [Click Here]
Description: CHDBits is considered as one of the best HD trackers based in China, ranking right up there with the likes of HDChina and CCDBits. It’s pretty hard to get into and open signups are rare. If you are desperate, staff have opened invite applications for international (non Chinese) members –  the invite app in question is quite lengthy and entry requirements are steep (you need to upload 1TB od data within the first month since joining). But this remains to be one of the rare opportunities to join this decent HD tracker.
Full review: [Click Here]

If you are looking for other niche private trackers or General/0Day torrent trackers, read our last collective open signup updated located here and here. Most of the sites that were featured in these posts are still open for signup.

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Several years ago when private trackers first came into the scene, there were no such things as dedicated HD torrent sites. However today, with HD video formats becoming increasingly popular, HD trackers have really gained traction. Today’s post is about one such dedicated torrent tracker for high definition content, namely World In HD (WiHD). WiHD is a BitTorrent tracker of French origin – that doesn’t necessary mean the site is useless for those who don’t speak French. It tracks a significant amount of English releases along with some French content, including untouched Blu Ray movies, Blu Ray remux as well as 720p and 1080p TV shows, movies, animation, documentaries, etc. Being a private community, WiHD is usually closed for public registrations. However, signups are currently open as part of their 1st anniversary celebrations.

Although it’s been online for just 1 year, WiHD hasn’t done badly in terms of expanding their torrent index - the site currently tracks over 1500 HD releases. It looks like they have amassed a decent enough user base during this time too, judging by the per numbers on popular torrents (official stats are unavailable). If you are concerned about the underlying mechanics, WiHD is built on the TS Special Edition codebase. It has all basic features of a private tracker and thankfully is one of the more cleaner looking, less cluttered TSSE implementations we’ve seen.

As we said earlier, WiHD tracks a mix of French and English releases including full Blu Ray movies, animation, documentaries, TV series and more. Most of the releases are in Multilanguage so English speaking fans will not be disappointed they created an account here. Amongst the indexed torrents were some unique uploads which I had not seen in other HD trackers – these are probably internal encodes by the site’s own release groups. The screenshot below shows some of the content traced on WiHD tracker:

WiHD being tracker with its roots in France, the interface language defaults to French. However this can easily be switched to English by clicking on the English flag icon on top left corner of the page (once logged in). As mentioned in the title of this post registrations for World In HD are currently open. Get in while you can.

Site Name: World In HD (http://world-in-hd.net)

Signup URL: http://world-in-hd.net/signup.php

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There are already quite a few specialized movie torrent trackers around with the likes of PTN, PTP, Goem, Tehconnection, etc. Todays post is about yet another movie torrent tracker, a lesser known site amongst the English speaking community. RuHD is a private torrent sites of Russian origin and it specializes in high quality movies (and a limited number of HQ TV shows). Reason for our use of the term ‘high quality’ is because this tracker does not index regular DVDRip/R5 DVD or lesser quality video encodes. It primarily tracks untouched DVD5, DVD9, HD Remux and 720p/1080p HDRip release with excellent video quality. Just like the recently featured UnionGang tracker, RuHD is one of the first sites to upload leaked content for region 5 i.e. R5 DVD releases by Russian groups such as ELEKTRIKA.

Although we are not quite sure about the origins of this tracker, RuHD seems to have been online for several years. Some of the older torrents uploaded date back to 2008 which is three years ago. The total number of active indexed releases on RuHD is around 330. It surely could not have survived for three years with just 300 odd torrents – either there were more and they suffered from a data loss or they are recovering from such an incident. If anyone knows the back story of this tracker, feel free to share it in comments below. However, the number of new daily uploads seems to be on the low site. For the month of February, there have only been 30 new torrents added.

As for the content, RuHD is primarily a movies only tracker. Available torrent categories include DVD5, DVD9, HD Remux, HDRip 1080p, HDRip 720p, HQ Video and Serials. A limited number of TV shows are listed under the ‘Serials’ category. Some of the shows and films indexed have only Russian audio (them being region 5 releases) – if yo uare looking for English content, check the Language in torrent description page before downloading. Note that lower quality encodes are not indexed on this tracker. Everything has at least DVD5 or Blu Ray video quality. A screenshot of the torrent index can be seen below:

RuHD is a Russian tracker and by default ,the site interface is in Russian language. There is an option to change it to English (through the profile page – /my.php) however translation is not done for some parts of the site so we recommend you use Google Chrome’s built in translator for this purpose.

How to translate RuHD to English with Google Chrome

1. Download the latest version of Google Chrome browser from here.
2. Visit RuHD homepage through this link: http://ruhd.org/
3. Once the page is done loading, Google Chrome will automatically display several translation options (the message will be displayed just beneath the address bar – you can’t miss it).
4. Choose the auto detected settings (should be Russian to English) and hit translate. If you get the message  ‘Translation failed due to server error’ keep re-trying.
5. Once translation of the first page is done, you can configure Google Chrome so that it automatically translates all RuHD pages without prompting you. Select the ‘Options’ button (in the translation help popup) and select ‘Always translate Russian to English’ from the drop down menu.

Registrations for RuHD are currently open. You can sign up for an account and browse the torrent index using links below. It’s not the largest movie tracker out there but it’s a decent enough site to have an account on.

Site Name: RuHD (http://ruhd.org)
Signup URL: http://ruhd.org/signup.php
Torrent Browse Page URL: http://ruhd.org/browse.php

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The BitTorrent ecosystem is changing – earlier, the trend was for P2P groups to team up with well known private trackers to pre their releases exclusively on those sites. Today, we have groups building their own trackers to release content directly to their fans. We’ve already seen iMAGiNE (UnleashThe.Net) and EuReKa (BD25.org) do this recently and today’s post is about another new tracker launched by a veteran P2P movie encoder group, FraMeSToR. FraMeSToR’s tracker specializes in high definition content including 3DBD, BD25, Remux & other Blu Ray encodes, 720p,1080p/1080i movie and TV shows and even lossless FLAC music. Unlike most other sites you see out there, FraMeSToR-HD plans to have (and already has) a lot of exclusive encodes including internal releases by groups such as FraMeSToR, MERC, FLAWL3SS and HDMaNiAcS. This tracker officially launched to the public today and it’ll have open registrations for two weeks.

Rather than jumping straight into a public launch, FraMeSToR-HD staff made the wise move to beta test the tracker for several weeks. Mot of the bugs have now been ironed out and the end result is a pretty stable torrent site. FHD’s backstory and the type of content it will track is explained in detail in the following E-mail sent to us by staff:

BEGIN QUOTE

Introduction
It is our great pleasure to announce that work is almost complete and we are on the break of launching our brand new FraMeSToR Tracker. Yes, after being on a couple of well respected sites, we felt the urge of taking matters into our own hands and start our own torrent community that will be driven with the same open mentality and spirit that brought FraMeSToR to where it is now. We will try to bring a place that will have both quality and quantity and will be fun to be a part off.
How do we see this community?
It will be a solid encoder base and hangout. We will not be the only internal group of this tracker and we have already recruited 2 other groups that we are proud to have on board. We believe that they represent the same quality standards as we do while still doing their own ways and using their methods. I'm even sure, more are yet to follow. By doing this, we have created a claiming of encodes option on sources like full blurays, remuxes, etc...... so whoever of our internal groups claims it, you will be sure that there will be a good encode to follow.
What will be offered on this tracker?

• FraMeSToR 720p, 1080p and BD25 encodes
• MERC (untouched Blu-rays EU source) coming soon
• HDMaNiAcS (Internal)
• Full Blurays
• 3D blurays and encodes
• 720p and 1080p Encodes from our internals
• TV captures
• TV encodes
• Music Blurays and encodes
• HD audiotracks
• FLAC music

Are we saying goodbye to our previous site?
Not completely. We will not upload there ourselves anymore but they have all means available to get our releases and upload them there. They won't be kept in the dark. However, we will release on our site first.
Are scene encodes allowed?
Only for TV series. Not for movies. We believe that the scene has nothing to do with quality encoding of HD content and do not wish it on our site.
Is there a reward system?
Yes there is. Although we won't use freeleech directly on torrents, we have a very good seeding bonus system that gets you points per hour per seeding torrent. Those points can be exchanged for more upload, V.I.P status and other goods. I think people will be quite satisfied.
In short:
We would like to create a huge HD Archive. One that has quantity and quality with a solid encoder base. Add a good mentality to it and I think a good and solid community is born.
Kind regards
The FraMeSToR Team

END QUOTE

FHD seems to be running on a modified xbtit codebase and the interface is user friendly and navigable. Some of the torrent categories and part of the main torrent index can be seen in the screenshot below:

Although a brand new site, FHD starts off with some strong statistics – the site already has over 1000 registered members and tracks over 330 torrents (most of them exclusive encodes). Expect these numbers to grow rapidly in the coming days as news of this tracker spreads around the BitTorrent community.

If you are interested in becoming a member of FraMeSToR-HD, you are in luck. The site will have open registrations for the next two weeks, starting today.

Site Name: FraMeSToR-HD (http://tracker.framestor-hd.org)

Signup URL: http://tracker.framestor-hd.org/index.php?page=signup

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This is our first post for the year 2011 and it’s good news for fans of high definition video content. Awesome-HD (AHD), a specialized HD tracker based on Gazelle RC2 codebase, has opened registrations for a limited time in celebration of the new year. Despite the loss of one of its main internal encoders (EuReKa) last year, this tracker managed not only to survive through the turbulent times but staff were also able to add many new features and enhancements as planned. AHD v4 now comes with a streamlined user interface, a new bonus system, subtitle and audio track integration for movies, requests, polls, collages and numerous other bug fixes. For those unfamiliar with the content on this tracker, it indexes HD movies, TV shows and documentaries including a lot of internal encodes unique to the site.

Although not as large as leading HD trackers such as HDBits.Org and Bit-HDTV, Awesome-HD has a strong user base of ~6000 members. As of 15/7/2010 AHD tracked 2700 active torrents which included 1500+ HD movies. These torrents include both scene and non scene releases. In fact, majority of the torrents indexed at AHD are P2P uploads ( a common characteristic of most specialized HD trackers). Video and audio content uploaded to AHD usually meet the following standards:

• Movies - 720p/1080p x264 encodes + DTS/AC-3 + English subtitles in a Matroska container
• TV –  Only Blu-Ray / HD DVD sources. Only complete seasons.
• HD-Audio - DTS-HD, TrueHD, LPCM, FLAC

In addition, material with highest video quality are are tagged as AHD Gold encodes. AHD Gold encodes are usually 720p/1080p video that meet a rigorous set of encoding standards (full details can be found on upload rules page).

Apart from the usual set of releases you can find on almost any other HD tracker, AHD has some internal encodes released by groups such as FoRM, HiFi, FTW-HD, D-ZON3. These groups actively upload on AHD and this is a good place as any to find their latest encodes.

Registrations for AHD are currently open. The current max user limit of the site is set to 8000 and provided that registrations remain open until this limit is reached, there are around 2000 free slots available for the taking.

Site Name: Awesome-HD (http://awesome-hd.net)

Signup URL: http://awesome-hd.net/register.php

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Just a quick update on three more private torrent trackers open for signup. All of these are high definition torrent sites and if you are a fan of HD content you might find these useful. Two of the trackers mentioned in the post (HDBits.CN and THDBits) have never been featured on this blog but we have talked about BDMKV before. Content on all three sites is pretty much similar - you can find and download untouched Blu Ray Movies, high definition encodes of TV shows, documentaries, sports content and even HD music videos here. Note that they are not huge huge trackers but medium sized torrent communities. If you download a lot of HD stuff, go ahead and check them out.

THDBits
 
Site Name: THDBits (http://www.thdbits.org)
Signup URL: http://www.thdbits.org/signup.php
Stats: 5800+ users and 2500+ torrents
Description: THDBits claims itself to be Thailand’s largest HD tracker (which it probably is). The site tracks a mix of Thai and English content including movies, TV shows, music videos and sports content. Site interface is English.

BDMKV
 
Site Name: BDMKV (http://www.bdmkv.org)
Signup URL: http://www.bdmkv.org/signup.php
Stats: 6700+ users and 550+ torrents
Description: BDMKV tracks a lot of untouched Blu Ray movies in addition to other HD content. This tracker indexes releases from the scene as well as from a lot of non scene groups including CHD, Remux, ESiR, etc. If you are an English speaking user, BDMKV supports English as an interface language –  change the language from the dropdown located on the top right corner of signup page.

HDBits.CN
 
Site Name: HDBits.cn (http://hdbits.cn)
Signup URL: http://hdbits.cn/signup.php
Stats: 6100+ users and ~600 torrents
Description: We’ve seen HDBits.org , HD-Bits.ro and now we have HDBits.cn. A torrent site originated from China, HDBits.cn is not a partner of either HDBits.org nor .ro. It’s a relatively new tracker which primarily indexes HD movies and documentaries. HDB.CN is off to a good start and hopefully it can keep up the pace with new torrents.

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With the rising popularity of Blu Ray disks along with high definition video formats, dedicated HD torrent trackers have become some of the most sought after torrent sites within the BitTorrent community. No matter how many different HD trackers we feature on this blog – it simply does not seem to be enough to meet the demand :p For those of you who are looking to be part of a new private tracker with high definition video content, here’s another decent choice; HDBT. HDBT is a Polish HD tracker which indexes 720p/1080p TrueHD video obtained from Blu Ray source (mind you, these torrents are huge in file size), x264 encoded video including TV, movies, Anime, Documentaries, etc and even some high quality lossless music tracks and music videos. HDBT recently celebrated its 2nd year of being online and the site currently has open signups and free leech plus 2X upload on many indexed torrents.

Although HDBT hasn't been making a lot of noise in the BT community, the site has slowly but surely attracted quite a few dedicated members. There’s a fair amount of leeching going on and most of the indexed torrents are pretty active. Thanks to double upload and free leech on some of the uploads, building and maintaining a ratio on this site has become easier. As of 31/08/2010, HDBT tracked 1550+ active torrents in its database.

You might have noticed that HDBT is a ‘Polish’ HD tracker. Does this mean it only tracks non English content local to Poland? Not really. If you are from an English speaking nation you’d still find this tracker useful. Most of the releases uploaded to HDBT (including the ones with Polish Flag), have multi language audio. They usually have both English and Polish audio feeds and you can choose whichever you like during playback. Just check the AUDIO section in torrent description page to see the list of audio feeds embedded in a particular release. As mentioned earlier HDBT tracks TrueHD Blu Ray video, high fidelity x264 encodes and even lossless music and HQ music videos. Some of these releases are of course unique and exclusive to this tracker. A screenshot showing part of the torrent index at HDBT can be seen below:

If you are interested in joining HDBT, signups are currently open. On a side note, the site has one of the simplest registration forms I’ve ever seen on a private tracker. Either way it’s not known till when the open registrations will continue so get in while you can.

Site Name: HDBT (http://hdbt.eu)

Signup URL: http://hdbt.eu/signup.php

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If you are on the lookout for full Blu Ray movie or TV torrents, here’s a private tracker you might find interesting. Blu Torrents specializes in Blu Ray video content that are untouched and whole. These files are not ripped, compressed or modified by any means and you get to enjoy high quality video along with special features and extras that are in the original Blu Ray disk. Downside of this is the massive file size – sometimes, the untouched BD video source for a single movie can take up to about 40GB. Although not a massively hyped up tracker, Blu Torrents has slowly but steadily been building a decent community. v2 of the site which apparently included a complete re-write of the codebase was launched last July with an improved user interface, Secure SSL connectivity and numerous other optimizations. If you are interested in becoming a member, new registrations are currently being accepted.

Launched several months ago, Blu Torrents has managed to attract nearly 7000 new members during this time. This is actually a decently sized user base for a niche tracker. The fact that not many out there would want to allocate 40GB of their bandwidth and hard disk space for a single movie makes this achievement even more impressive :p

Although the name of the tracker is Blu Torrents, it does index regular HD videos (including rips and other encodes), DVDRs, etc as well. However, the primary focus of the site seems to be on BD25 and BD50 releases as well as full disk re-encodes. Most of these releases are exclusive to Blu Torrents and are uploaded by the site’s internal encoders (internal releases may be identified by ‘BTNET’ tag on torrent title). In addition, there are some nice tutorials on Blu Ray encoding in their ‘Guides/Tutorials’ section. The site however could do with some more content – it currently tracks 410 torrents out of only ~220 are only active. Screenshot of the torrent index is embedded below:

If you are interested in joining, registrations for Blu Torrents are currently open. The site’s max user limit is set to 10000 which leaves around 3000 more free slots up for the taking.

Site Name: Blu Torrents (http://www.blu-torrents.net)

Signup URL: http://www.blu-torrents.net/signup.php

Note: For those who signed up for this tracker prior to v2 launch, you’ll first need to recover account details using the ‘Recover Password’ option on site before attempting to log in.

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How many HD torrent trackers does China have? I don’t think anyone knows the correct answer. However, we seem to run into a new Chinese private tracker for HD content every other day. What’s cool about these sites is that they aren’t just stubs with a few members and a handful torrents. These are fully fledged torrent trackers with strong user bases and content rich torrent indexes. For example ChinaHDTV, the site we are featuring today, has nearly 15k members even though it’s not a site you hear about every day. ChinaHDTV is a private torrent tracker for high definition content. It tracks movies, TV shows, music videos and documentaries, majority English releases. In addition to the usual uploads found on most HD trackers, ChinaHDTV has an interesting section (which is just starting up) for 720p MP4 video optimized for the Apple iPad .

With over 14700 registered users and nearly 2500 active torrents in its index, ChinaHDTV is a decently sized private tracker. And the fact that it’s taken them less than three months to reach this state makes it even more impressive. Leecher activity on most of the indexed torrents is excellent with popular releases usually having 50+ seeds each. Download speeds too are pretty good on this site.

As mentioned earlier ChinaHDTV tracks high definition content. This includes movies, music videos, TV shows and documentaries. Majority of available releases are English and are pre’d by renowned scene and P2P groups. Apart from English (United States and European releases) content, you can find movies and TV shows from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and other regions on this tracker. Most of the video files are obtained from Blu-ray, HD DVD, MiniBD (variant of Blu Ray Disk), HDTV or DVDR media sources (untouched or ripped) and usually have excellent video quality. If the translation I read on their homepage is correct, ChinaHDTV will soon ramp up its iPad TV shows section with uploads by an internal release group.

Being a China based private tracker built on NexuxPHP script, ChinaHDTV by default has a Chinese language interface. You do have the option to switch to English but we recommend you use Google’s Chrome’s built in translation to automatically translate the site to English.

How to translate CCFBits to English with Google Chrome

1. Download and install the latest version of Google Chrome browser from here.
2. Visit ChinaHDTV signup page through this link: http://www.chinahdtv.org/signup.php.
3. Once the page is done loading, Google Chrome will automatically display several translation options (the message will be displayed just beneath the address bar – you can’t miss it).
4. Choose the auto detected settings (should be Chinese Simplified Hans to English) and hit translate. If you get the message  ‘Translation failed due to server error’ keep re-trying.
5. Once translation of the first page is done, you can configure Google Chrome so that it automatically translates all CHTDV pages without prompting you. Select the ‘Options’ button (in the translation help popup) and select ‘Always translate Chinese Simplified Hans to English’ from the drop down menu.

Signups for ChinaHDTV are currently open. This is usually a closed community but the doors will be open between 31st of July to 9th August only (or until the site reaches 20k users, whichever comes first).

Site Name: ChinaHDTV (http://www.chinahdtv.org)

Signup URL: http://www.chinahdtv.org/signup.php

Special thanks to buzi li for the heads up.

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Several months ago, there was a time when CCFBits was always open to the public. This however is no longer the case – the site has long since gone invite only and its doors remain shut for the most part. If you still haven’t become a member of this tracker, good news is that today is the open registration day at CCFBits. In case you were wondering, CCFBits is a huge private BitTorrent tracker indexing thousands of high definition (HD) releases. It’s a torrent site in  the same league as HDChina, CHDBits, etc and is without a doubt one of the most famous trackers based in China. Good download speeds, internal encoder groups, tons of torrents including movies, TV shows, documentaries and lossless music, decent leecher activity on indexed torrents – CCFBits pretty much has all the qualities you’d look for in a good HD tracker.

Open registration day at CCFBits was announced sometime back but so far it has gone unnoticed in most BitTorrent news and invite forums. The site’s current maximum user limit is set to 20000 and at time of this post there were 19100 registered members, leaving  around 900 free slots. Note that this user base is pretty strong for a  specialized tracker – there aren’t many private HD sites around with 20k members. The indexed torrent count is equally high - with over 17500 active torrents (last time we reviewed this site back in July 2009, it only had 700) being tracked by CCFBits’s private tracker, it’s a site that can rival the likes of HDChina and TorrentGui in terms of content.

Speaking of content, this site tracks Chinese/English movies, documentaries and TV shows - bulk of the releases are English, released by renowned scene/p2p groups such as ESiR, CtrlHD, EuReKA and CTU. In addition, they do have their own internal encoder groups such as Pa@Ph, OurSky, YYets, XTM, StTVG and YDY. It’s worth mentioning that CCFBits is home to some huge HD torrent packs – for example there is a movie pack that exceeds 500GB in size. Download speeds on CCFBits is generally very good and there are a lot of freeleech torrents around making it easy to maintain a good ratio.

While it has excellent content, CCFBits does not have the best interface around. Primary interface language is Chinese (with English labels for main functions) and every torrent has it’s name spelt both in Chinese and English. Note that presence of a Chinese name does not mean the torrent is actually Chinese – most of the time it’s English. Chinese characters makes the layout somewhat cluttered (at least for those us who don’t know jack whack about Chinese) but its a negligible issue. If you want you can translate the site into English with the help of Google Chrome browser.

How to translate CCFBits to English with Google Chrome

1. Download the latest version of Google Chrome browser from here.
2. Visit CCFBits signup page through this link: http://ccfbits.org/signup.php.
3. Once the page is done loading, Google Chrome will automatically display several translation options (the message will be displayed just beneath the address bar – you can’t miss it).
4. Choose the auto detected settings (should be Chinese Simplified Hans to English) and hit translate. If you get the message  ‘Translation failed due to server error’ keep re-trying.
5. Once translation of the first page is done, you can configure Google Chrome so that it automatically translates all TTG pages without prompting you. Select the ‘Options’ button (in the translation help popup) and select ‘Always translate Chinese Simplified Hans to English’ from the drop down menu.

As said earlier signups will be open for a limited time only – it can either remain open throughout the day or it might close before that if the site hits its max capacity. Get in while you can – this is a decent HD tracker.

Site Name: CCFBits (http://ccfbits.org)

Signup URL: http://ccfbits.org/signup.php

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Good news for HD fans – specialized high definition torrent tracker Awesome HD is open for signup. Things were not looking good for AHD earlier this year when one of their main internal encoders, EuReKa, left to join HD-Torrents  - a rival HD tracker. Although everyone saw this as a critical blow to AHD, the site is very much alive even after 6 months since the incident. In fact, AHD staff and its coders have been busy adding a lot of new features to the tracker during the last couple of months. The site only recently achieved two important milestones – the launch of AHD v4 and migration to Gazelle RC2 codebase. AHD v4 brings is some welcome new features while Gazelle RC2 ensures a more secure, faster hunt for torrents on Awesome-HD. Of course, it’s been about a month since these changes have been implemented but this is the first time AHD have opened public registrations after the revamps.

With over 5100 enabled users, AHD is a medium sized private tracker. The site tracks 720p/1080p x264 movie encodes + DTS/AC-3 + English subtitles in a Matroska container, TV shows ripped from Blu-Ray / HD DVD sources (only complete seasons) and DTS-HD, TrueHD, LPCM & FLAC HD Audio. As of 15/7/2010 Awesome HD tracked  1775 active torrents which included 1100+ HD movies.

Ever since it was launched about an year ago, AHD has been adding new features to the tracker at regular intervals. If you were not satisfied with the 10+ improvements introduced a couple of months back, here are some more changes to keep you hooked. Quoted below are a list of features launched under AHD v4:

1. Bonus Points! - You wanted them, we've integrated them!
2. Audio Tracks are now linked to movies.
3. Films now list audio tracks and subtitles
4. New Forums
5. Polls
6. Requests
7. All internal releases now 75% free leech

One of the highlights of AHD v4 is the new bonus points system. You can now do some pretty crazy stuff with bonus points including activating half leech, secret free leech or free leech for a random dude on tracker.

Earning bonus points on this tracker is pretty easy. Here’s how it works (quoted from site page):

Bonus points are awarded for seeding completed torrents. Every hour you are awarded 0.1 points for each GB of each completed torrent you're seeding. e.g. for a 10GB torrent you will get one point.
You also will receive an extra 0.1 points where you are in a group of seeds totalling less than 5. You also receive an extra 0.1 for each seed less than 5. e.g. 4 seeds you get 0.1 points, 3 seeds 0.2 points, 2 seeds 0.3 points and if you are the only seed you get 0.4 points

No matter how good a private tracker is, it would be of little use to our members if they can’t get in. Although AHD was closed to the public in the last 4-5 months, signups have now been opened for a limited period of time. If you download high definition video over the internet, you might find the site pretty useful so check it out.

Site Name: Awesome-HD (http://awesome-hd.net)

Signup URL: http://awesome-hd.net/register.php

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