Telecine (piracy)

The term telecine is sometimes used to refer to a less common form of pirated copy of films created using a telecine machine, as opposed to recording the projected image with a video camera (the camera method with a direct audio source is called a tele"sync"). Since this process requires both a print of the movie on film (which generally cannot be obtained legally by an individual) and expensive equipment, telecine bootlegs are less common than camera bootlegs. The studios have integrated security features, like Coded Anti-Piracy (CAP) to discourage, track and prosecute pirates.

The term is also often seen used as in the naming of pirate movie releases. A naming scheme would look something like this: Movie.title.year-of-production.TELECINE.Codec-Groupname. Alternatively some groups simply use the TC tag instead. The quality of a good telecine is generally comparable to a DVD without any post-processing. The number of pirate telecines released has dropped recently due to the difficulty of making them and the rise of R5 releases.

ee also

*TC (Telecine)
*DVDScr (DVD Screener)
*DVDRip
*R5 (bootleg)
*The Scene