New things are to come to AnimeHQ. You will see some groups going to 720p and 1080p encodes, which we have tried to aswell. But its hard to juggle 480p and 780p/1080p releases, as its hard to get hands on a untouched bluray source without dipping into our own pockets. Bluray Movies and OVAs are no problem we can get those out, but Bluray Series that are 12+ eps is alot of harddrive space and we just cant promise that to our fans.

But putting out some HD Encodes is not the New Things I am talking about.
No, we will be doing something that only few if not no major fansub/dual audio group has done.
We will be starting a Beta Streaming Project for those that just like to watch right there and then and not keep and for those with low bandwidth. Sure there is dedicated websites for these, that only do streaming. But they either steal other groups encodes or just do a crap job on the encode themselves. And sense our encodes our already on places like youtube, why not?

Of course these streaming encodes wont be as High Quality as the real deal. But we are assuming those whom use it really dont give a shit about quality, well to a point. Thats why we will make the streaming as High Quality as possible with still maintaining a lower bitrate for those whom have slow/busy connections.
We are still unsure on what system we are going to use, divx or flash. But whichever we choose it will still be dual audio with subs.
On what series will be offered is unsure at this point. It will be few and will most likely the most popular of the 26 eps or less series.

It will be integrated into the tracker system and only those whom are at a certain user level can access it. This is a beta after all and we dont want to be just handing out our bandwidth to ungrateful leechers that dont give back by seeding. So in time when we refine the system and get its own dedicated server (By that I mean someone offering there own server) we might make it public for anyone.

ETA is July

New tracker is up. And I am slowly fixing it up. Until later this week, registration will be restricted to select members in the previous tracker untill then.

Just this morning a bot got threw the screening and PM spammed about half of the members causeing them to be Emailed about the PM they got. I have resolved the issue, and cleared all the PMs that were sent. Aswell as banned the IP and Email host that the bot come from. But to make sure this doesnt happen again I have disabled PM aswell as Email system. We have an old version of the Invision Forums thats Lisense has expired 2 year ago and are unable to update to the newest level. Thus why a single tricky smammer got through our old protection. Sorry for the inconvenience.

On another note, Girls Bravo 5-8 will be released soon. Aswell as Tenchi 5-something. Black Blood Brothers also should be released soon from Decol.

Please note also, the XDCC packs on the site are currrently wrong thus you will have to xdcc send #1 the irc bot to get the real pack list. This will be fixed soon.

ALL OF OUR ENCODES are located in the IRC, the are scattered on the bots, but all of them are there. All 500GB to my count.

AnimeHQ is looking for experianced encoders and some Qcers to revive AHQ form its dry spell. we need encoders to keep AHQ going.
For an Encoder we are looking for if u know:
-how to use avisnyth.
-know how to use megui and vdub.
-making a encode that dual audio with subs in a mkv container with x264 codec.

if you do not know the above, do not expect us to teach you, if u know atleat all of the obove and have the ability to teach ur self if an ocashonal help from others then join #ahq-recruits on our IRC.

For QCing, Im just going to say you need to previous experiance with doing it.


we are still working on the tracker atm. and we will need dedicated seeders for when it does come back.



Oh and new releases are out on the IRC.
Girls Bravo 1-4
and
Tenchi 1-4
are now on the New Release bot on IRC

Thats why we were down for months. We had to find backup of our data, so far we have got a veryold verson of forums and website. But we will try to update it back the way it was. After we found the backups we had to change the domains to a new host. But even though the website is back online, still no ETA on our tracker. We require non-US dedicated server in which we currently have no valenters to host yet. We do have a back up for the tracker, but honestly I have no idea how old it is. Forums via website will go back online untill we figure out what we will do with our tracker/tracker forums. But if the worst comes we wont have a tracker and will go irc xdcc bot only for awhile.