Thread: SceneHD (ScHD) Review

Name : SCENEHD

URL : log::in

Sign up : invites only

Site will never have open registration again, but the invite system is now open, go ask your friends for invite.
DO NOT ask about in the channel.

Logo : The logo changes some times. Its about something from their categories. something cool. You'll see an example form the image below. You can go to that special torrent or thread by clicking the logo.

• SceneHD is an excellent High-Definition video releases only kind of a tracker. Its not only a 0-day and HD tracker , but they also have a large archive of materials.

• SceneHD is not just an another tracker with HD contains. Its a very active community. Forum, IRC are very active places. Its not only about log in to the site then download or upload some stuff and keep a good ratio. Its also about being an active member in the community.

• Tracker provides huge amount of freeleech packs. Pre-times are good. But I wouldn't say pre-times are very fast.

• There are over 7k users and over 9k torrents as of Oct 26, 2010. Most of torrents are well seeded. Even most old torrents have at least one seeder. You can expect a fair amount of speed even from old torrents.

• When it comes to the invite system of course they have one. HD addict user class and above can have the ability to invite a person. You can buy an invite from their bonus system, also you can win them from their competitions.

• This is a scene tracker. So Scenehd doesn't have internal encoders. HD addicts and above can upload torrents. After you verify the torrent which you are going to upload is a scene release then you can easily upload it. There will be consequences if it isn't a scene release.

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Browse Page :
They are offering freeleech packs. The torrents with blue text are freeleech. Great way to build your ratio up. The torrents with green background are archive or requests. The torrents with white background are new materials.

Forums : Forum is a good active place. But you can't request releases there. There is a request page to do that. If you did, you'll get a warning. They've also mentioned

Do not ask for, or give away, invites to anything (goes for whole site and IRC) except in the designated threads . Only viewable by HD Collectors and higher.

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FAQs :



User Classes :

Bonus System : HD Lovers and above have access to the bonus system. There are few ways to earn points. Weekly seed bonus, Uploading new torrents, Filling requested torrents and gambling at soft bet. See below images to find out about more details about those opportunities.


Here how you can earn the bonus and how do they calculate your bonus. Here also you can find more details about what I've mentioned above about the bonus system.




This is the softbet system I was talking about. Also a way to collect bonus points.


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IRC Details :

Server
Address: irc.scenehd.org:6667 (+6697 for SSL)
Joining
To join our irc-server, type /server -m irc.scenehd.org. To join with SSL, type /server -m irc.scenehd.org:+6697
Channels
These are the official channels of SceneHD.

* #SceneHD - Our main channel, international.
* #SceneHD.Swe - For chat in Swedish.
* #SceneHD.Help - Help channel. Feel free to join if you need any help.

As a community the site is very active. Most requests will be filled quickly. They also have some tutorials on their forum such as how to play particular encoded movies, about media players....
There were some serious troubles there few weeks ago but they are back online and doing well. Some would say they are not as good as they used to be after that. But I don't see any big difference.
There are many HD trackers out there such as HD-torrents, HDBits, BIT-HDTV, AwesomeHD.... and there were some comparison threads here between scenehd and some trackers . There are advantages as well as disadvantages there when it comes to comparisons. But a main thing about this site is scene releases. Some people are specially looking for particular encoders. In that case this won't be an option.
Overall a good tracker with great contents. Would be cool if you become a member of this tracker. Invites are somewhat rare so you have to convince someone to get an invite. But I'm pretty sure you'll find one because there are awesome members here which who can able to invite you to the site.

Pros :
Amazingly awesome contents and speeds.
Fair speed of pre-times.
One of the most active BT communities.
The tracker has some useful tutorials and cool features.

Cons :
Scene releases only. So no internal encoders.

SceneHD is so easy to seed and so easy to survive.

Just got promoted to HD Lover, still confused about their bonus system.