If you're a regular online movie viewer, you may encounter films labeled as having HDRip quality. So, what exactly is HDRip? How does it differ from HD? If you're pondering over these questions, check out the article below.
What exactly is HDRip?
When movies are uploaded online, apart from the familiar HD quality, they may also come with other common qualities like CAM, TS, HDRip, etc. The basic difference between these quality types lies in their origins.
CAM (short for Camera) footage is directly recorded from movie theaters using digital cameras, resulting in blurry images, potential shaking, cropping, occasional shadows, and mediocre sound quality due to microphone recording and surrounding noise interference.
Slightly better in terms of audio, TS (short for Telesync) employs a separate recording device, but otherwise shares similar technical characteristics with CAM.

Approaching HD, HDRip (short for High-Definition Rip) is a compressed format of HD movies, hence occupying less storage space than the original version. The quality of HDRip films depends on compression techniques, yet it can be considered to be at a good level.
Key features of HDRip:
- Average file size of a movie: 0.5 – 1.5 GB;
- Main file formats: AVI, MP4;
- Image and sound quality almost equivalent to HD;
Overall, this is an appropriate quality level if you want to download movies to watch on small screen devices such as phones, tablets, ... or if you don't want to wait too long for the HD version.
So there you have it! Mytour has introduced you to what HDRip is and some other common movie quality formats. Hope this article proves helpful to you!