Originally Posted by Blitz

Great review no doubt, the tracker is not that good though and rating is too high.

At max i would rate the content 7.5 not lower than that, they only content which's main language is english so unlike other HD trackers you cannot upload any language with english subs, they have different sites under their network for that content (AvistaZ and CinemaZ), animated movies are no longer allowed since they're to be uploaded on AnimeTorrents (other sister site), so they have a very limited type of content allowed in which it's doing very well, i can't agree with you unless you point out something which all of us are missing in this, tell us if you think something is missing in our opinions.

Originally Posted by Silverking

At max i would rate the content 7.5 not lower than that, they only content which's main language is english so unlike other HD trackers you cannot upload any language with english subs, they have different sites under their network for that content (AvistaZ and CinemaZ), animated movies are no longer allowed since they're to be uploaded on AnimeTorrents (other sister site), so they have a very limited type of content allowed in which it's doing very well, i can't agree with you unless you point out something which all of us are missing in this, tell us if you think something is missing in our opinions.

This tracker is very over rated in this review. It has 44,059 users and only 11,984 and this really indicates how bad and not active community is this. IF you are in elite trackers like HDBits, AwesomeHD, PTP you will notice that they don't allow PHD internal encodes to be uploaded due to their bad quality.

Originally Posted by Blitz

Great review no doubt, the tracker is not that good though and rating is too high.

@Blitz Thank you so much for your comment about the review I have to agree with @Silverking; if I'm being too harsh, I'll go with 7.5 for the content, but would leave all other scores the same Remember that, as detailed in the review, the AvistaZ Network have a very unique separation of content. As mentioned at the beginning of the review, looking at the number of torrents alone without remembering what PHD is actually focused on might be misleading.

It's not a general tracker or even an HD tracker for all types of content. It's an HD tracker for English language content only; and no anime either. It cannot be compared to other HD trackers (e.g. HDSky or HDChina), both of which allow English and Asian content so they have more variety to work with. If you combine AvistaZ and PrivateHD together, it would then be fair to compare them (as one unit) to HDSky & HDChina.

I look at the Tracker List, and I see other HD trackers (x264, PixelHD, WorldinHD) at Level 5 (only because they're more difficult to get into), and with scores that I believe are too high. x264 should be no more than Level 3 in my view.

The 2016 Review of PHD gave Content a score of 7, and for that time, I agree with 7. The growth that happened since then is HUGE; the score cannot be 7 again Check out their TV collection specifically, you'll fund stuff that's only available on PHD & Usenet

Originally Posted by Silverking

At max i would rate the content 7.5 not lower than that, they only content which's main language is English so unlike other HD trackers you cannot upload any language with english subs, they have different sites under their network for that content (AvistaZ and CinemaZ), animated movies are no longer allowed since they're to be uploaded on AnimeTorrents (other sister site), so they have a very limited type of content allowed in which it's doing very well, i can't agree with you unless you point out something which all of us are missing in this, tell us if you think something is missing in our opinions.

@Silverking Couldn't agree more, sir

Originally Posted by Blitz

This tracker is very over rated in this review. It has 44,059 users and only 11,984 and this really indicates how bad and not active community is this. IF you are in elite trackers like HDBits, AwesomeHD, PTP you will notice that they don't allow PHD internal encodes to be uploaded due to their bad quality.

Thank for your comment again. I will agree that the number of users might look bad on the surface - too many users compared to the number of torrents, BUT if you dig deeper, and if you use PHD often, you'll realize this is part of the reason why their torrents are so well-seeded compared to other trackers At least this is what I've seen from personal experience. So many downloaders that keep seeding for a very long time, but they need more active uploaders. You'll hardly find any other HD tracker where 90% of torrents are seeded at any given time. That's a BIG plus for PHD

As for PHD's internal encodes being banned from other trackers due to bad quality, I'm not sure which internals you mean:

- HDBEE releases Full BD (no encoding - no change in quality)
- EPSiLON releases REMUX (no encoding - no change in quality).
- UTR-HD does x265 encodes, some trackers ban all x265 anyways, if they allow them, they would allow UTR-HD encodes since they're among the best HEVC encodes out there, but x265 codec is still recent and not very stable, so this one is very subjective

PHD has no other internal encoders for BluRay/WEB-DL/WEBRip. Some users release their own encodes, but they're not official PHD encodes

Originally Posted by Blitz

This tracker is very over rated in this review. It has 44,059 users and only 11,984 and this really indicates how bad and not active community is this. IF you are in elite trackers like HDBits, AwesomeHD, PTP you will notice that they don't allow PHD internal encodes to be uploaded due to their bad quality.

low quality? the only reason they don't allow is because of the HEVC/x265 codec which they think is not good as of yet, you say their encodes are not allowed on PTP and other trackers and i must be in those trackers to know about it? if you're in those trackers then you must know that x265 codec is even banned from being uploaded there, as for the number of users, yes it was a mistake they made earlier by allowing lurkers but they have recently make a new no lurker policy so don't worry those accounts (unused and inactive ones) will be taken care of, PHD only has one internal team called UTR-HD which uses x265 codec, i won't say it's over-rated since their pre-times are one of the fastest, their releases (remuxes) are the first to one to appear on IPT sometimes, i'm pretty sure won't question IPT's pre-times or will you? as for AHD, i heard most of the content on the site is dead so why call it elite? just because of one internal team being the best? PHD's content is highly seeded with pretty awesome speeds, they have some great features which other trackers don't even offer like advanced RSS (look in the RSS tab for that), their advanced search is something which i like more than Gazelle trackers, it's not PHD's encodes they don't allow, it's the codec (x265) which they don't like, you can't do anything about their mindset about a codec or can you?

Nice review! A lot of information in there

Originally Posted by Blitz

This tracker is very over rated in this review. It has 44,059 users and only 11,984 and this really indicates how bad and not active community is this. IF you are in elite trackers like HDBits, AwesomeHD, PTP you will notice that they don't allow PHD internal encodes to be uploaded due to their bad quality.

I think we've got a breakdown in logic here: 44,059 users and only 11,984 torrents implies how bad and not active the community is?


Two things ... first, wouldn't the number of torrents largely be a function of the age of the site more than the number of registered accounts? Second, clicking register doesn't automatically make you a part of the community, it just means you registered an account, so it seems to be a bit harsh to try and judge the whole community without taking into account dead accounts. Now that PHD is reaching a more mature state (though still only 1.5 years old) it is now taking steps to start pruning unused accounts, though even when as it does (and number of registered accounts decreases) that doesn't magically make the actual community somehow "better".


So instead of using number of registered accounts to gauge the community, it probably makes more sense to use the number of seeds (i.e. the actual community).


Let's see, I just logged on and checked:


PHD: 85,130 seeds / 12,017 torrents = ~7.1 seeds/torrent
PTP: 1,625,482 seeds / 352,194 torrents = ~4.6 seeds/torrent
HDB: 838,013 seeds / 189,836 torrents = ~4.4 seeds/torrent


No doubt PHD has a long way to go in terms of backfilling older and more obscure content, but as I said above that will probably happen naturally over time. Also, as torrents age and more obscure content does make its way onto PHD that seed/torrent ratio will no doubt fall too. But it's a mistake to call the actual PHD community "bad" and "not active" based on number of registered accounts instead of considering numbers like the above, no? The site seems to be doing well so far, and I think credit should be given where credit is due.

Originally Posted by Blitz

IF you are in elite trackers like HDBits, AwesomeHD, PTP you will notice that they don't allow PHD internal encodes to be uploaded due to their bad quality.

Like someone else said above, you should probably distinguish between "don't allow x265 encodes" and "bad quality" -- do a screenshot comparison and judge the quality for yourself. That's the easiest way to settle that.

Originally Posted by Frozenwater

Let's see, I just logged on and checked:

PHD: 85,130 seeds / 12,017 torrents = ~7.1 seeds/torrent
PTP: 1,625,482 seeds / 352,194 torrents = ~4.6 seeds/torrent
HDB: 838,013 seeds / 189,836 torrents = ~4.4 seeds/torrent

Great comparison! Speaks for itself Sure, PHD has a long way to fill their backlog of old content, but the progress they made in 1.5 years is astonishing. Thanks for the numerical comparison! Proves the points about how well-seeded PHD's content is! 90% seeded torrents at any give time.

Originally Posted by Silverking;759060
if you're in those trackers then you must know that x265 codec is even banned from being uploaded there. [...

It's not PHD's encodes they don't allow, it's the codec (x265) which they don't like, you can't do anything about their mindset about a codec or can you?

Originally Posted by Frozenwater

Like someone else said above, you should probably distinguish between "don't allow x265 encodes" and "bad quality" -- do a screenshot comparison and judge the quality for yourself. That's the easiest way to settle that.

@Frozenwater, @Silverking
Spot on, guys! Just because those 'elite' trackers choose not to allow ALL x265 encodes (regardless of who the encoder is) doesn't mean PHD's encodes are bad. People need to actually 'use' the tracker to be able to form an informed opinion, if you log in and out, just lurk around, and all you look at is the number of torrents and registered users, your information would be shallow

One large torrent from PHD that includes a full series pack [there's A LOT of those] is better than 500 random torrents of single episodes scattered around on some other tracker

@Frozenwater, well said man, that was impressive. @fiorentini, 100% agreed @Blitz, i agree you calling PTP and HDB as elite trackers due to that huge library they have with healthy seeds, mind giving me a reason for calling AHD an elite tracker except D-ZON3 as their internal encoder, from what i've heard most of the content is dead, only stuff which stays seeded are D-ZON3's releases and you still say PHD's over-rated? PHD's way better than AHD when it comes to seed health and it'll stay like that if it follows at the same rate. PHD's staff is actively adding torrents with low seeds to featured category so they get high number of peers, which means more seeders per torrent. One more thing that i would like to tell you is that you don't have to compare every tracker with HDB/PTP? is comparing every tracker to those 2 the only way we know what the other tracker's worth for? no my friend you're mistaken here, PHD only allows a specific type of content in which they are taking the lead. Also to my friends @Frozenwater & @fiorentini, i would like both of you not to make any post after this on this very topic, i think it's gone on long enough already and any further will just be spam.

Enough is enough guys. I think it's pointless to say the same things over and over again