Movie Release Formats

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It is a copy made in a cinema using a camcorder or mobile phone. The sound source is the camera microphone. Cam rips can quickly appear online after the first preview or premiere of the film. The quality ranges from terrible to very good, depending on the group of persons performing the recording and the resolution of the camera used. The main disadvantage of this is the sound quality. The microphone does not only record the sound from the movie, but also the background sound in the cinema. The camera can also record movements and audio of the audience in the theater, for instance, when someone stands up in front of the screen, or when the audience laughs at a funny moment in the movie.

It is just a new source of the above quality.

A telesync (TS) is a bootleg recording of a film recorded in an empty movie theater, sometimes filmed using a professional camera on a tripod in the projection booth. The main difference between a CAM and TS copy is that the audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source (often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater). Often, a cam is mislabeled as a telesync. HDTS is used to label a High-definition video recording.

It is just a new source of the above quality.

PDVDRip, also known as Pre-DVD, It is the Low quality CAM/TS releases put on a DVD and sold on the streets, which are ripped by some release groups and released as PDVD-rips. Even though the original source of this quality is CAM/TS, It is usually cleared a bit.[NOTE: PDVDRip and DVDRip are different quality]

A copy captured from a film print using a machine that transfers the movie from its analog reel to digital format. Telecine has basically the same quality as DVD, since the technique is the same as digitizing the actual film to DVD. However, the result is inferior since the source material is usually a lower quality copy reel. Telecine machines usually cause a slight left-right jitter in the picture and have inferior color levels compared to DVD. HDTC is used to label a High-definition video recording.

These are early DVD or BD releases of the theatrical version of a film, typically sent to movie reviewers, Academy members, and executives for review purposes. DVDSCR are normally of only slightly lower quality than a retail DVDRip

It is just a new source of the above quality.

The R5 is a retail DVD from region 5. Region 5 consists of the Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, Russia and Mongolia. R5 releases differ from normal releases in that they are a direct transfer of the film without any of the image processing. If the DVD does not contain an English-language audio track, the R5 video is synced to a previously released English audio track. This means that the sound often is not as good as DVD-Rips.
The other regions are:
R0 No Region Coding
R1 United States of America, Canada
R2 Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa
R3 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia
R4 Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America
R5 India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries
R6 Peoples Republic of China
R7 Unused
R8 Airlines/Cruise Ships
R9 Expansion (often used as region free)
R1 and R2 are considered the best quality.

A final retail version of a film. This is the first HD quality.[NOTE: PDVDRip and DVDRip are different quality]

A final retail version of a film in DVD format, generally a complete copy from the original DVD. It contains the part of the movie which were removed from the DVDRip. A complete Untouched Rip with quality same as DVDRip.

HDRip is an encoded version of any HD source, like BRRip, BDRip or HDTV, into a smaller file size.

HDTV Rips often come from Over-the-Air transmissions. It is the HD recoding of the movie displayed on TV by a cable or satellite TV service. With an HDTV source, the quality can sometimes even surpass DVD. Some advertisement and commercial banner can be seen on some releases during playback.

This is a file losslessly ripped from a streaming service, such as Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, Crunchyroll, Discovery GO, BBC iPlayer, etc. This is also a movie or TV show downloaded via an online distribution website, such as iTunes. The quality is quite good since they are not re-encoded. The video (H.264 or H.265) and audio (AC3/AAC) streams are usually extracted from the iTunes or Amazon Video and then remuxed into a MKV container without sacrificing quality. An advantage with these releases is that they mostly have no network logos on screen.