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  TV (TV Rip, SDTV, DSR, PDTV, HDTV)
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This articile is about TV rip sources. The sources are ordered from worst to best quality. TVRip is a capture source from an analog capture card (coaxial/composite/s-video connection). Digital stream rip (DSR) is a rip that is captured from a non standard definition digital source like satellite. HDTV or PDTV rips often come from Over-the-Air transmissions. With an HDTV source, the quality can sometimes even surpass DVD. Movies in this format are starting to grow in popularity.
Analog, DSR, and PDTV sources are often re-encoded to 512x384 if fullscreen, 640x352 if widescreen.

TV-rip / Analog
TV rips capped from analog source, or a digital cap that that went through at least one Digital -> Analog -> Digital process. This includes Standard TiVo, any MPEG2 capture card, any DV source (unless you're releasing your home videos that were actually shot on a DV camera) or any other standard capture card.

SDTV
Stands for: Standard Digital Television
Digital recording or capture from a source stream at any resolution with bitrate under 10mbps. This includes DirecTiVo but also captures from digisat or digicable with analog capture cards.

DSR
Stands for: Digital Stream Rip
Synonyms: DSRip
Digital stream rip is a rip that is captured from a digital source stream, such as a HDTV or DVB transmission.. The resolutions are 480i\576i\576p with a horizontal resolution of less than 704px.

PDTV
Stands for: Pure Digital Television
Other resolution digital recordings from source streams at a bitrate of 10+mbps or higher. This includes digital recordings from digital C-Band and DVB. The resolutions are 480i\576i\576p with a horizontal resolution greater or equal to 704px.

HDTV
Stands for: High Definition Television
HDTV rips are digital recording from a source stream at either 1080i, 1080p or 720p at a bitrate from 19,39mbps or higher.

 
     





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