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I Don't Need A TVI don't ever need to worry about missing my favorite TV shows (which, since I never watch TV, I don't worry too much about). But it's good to know that if there's a show I want to see, I just need a broadband connection and BitTorrent. Posted by Jake on 06/10/05 @ 01:30 PM
Posted in Cool | 5 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 5 CommentsJ.D. said on 06/10/05 @ 02:07 PM:I've been using BitTorrent for my television viewing for about a year now. We have a TV (a high-def TV, no less), and my wife watches it fairly often. But I don't like to be tied to a schedule. I suppose we could get a Tivo, but rather than shell out cash for a new piece of equipment, I just make use of BitTorrent. I watched at least half of every Lost episode via BitTorrent. I watched all of Battlestar Galactica, the US version of The Office, the new Doctor Who, and maybe one or two other shows. Best of all, BitTorrent maintains marital harmony in our house. If we're out late on Wednesday, we no longer have to rush home so that Kris can catch West Wing. We just download it. Ugh. Now that I've typed this in, I see you allow strong but not i; ah well. I'm not going to go back and change my tags. :) monkeyinabox said on 06/10/05 @ 03:28 PM: I really got into doing this with Battlestar Galactica, since it aired overseas months before being on Sci-Fi locally. I also started doing this with shows I wanted to save a copy of. Basically it's cheaper to make a VCD of the show and it sure looks better than any video tape and the commericals are edited out. Dave M. said on 06/12/05 @ 09:20 AM: The problem with using bittorrent to catch shows is that the MPAA is doing everything in their power to shutdown sites that post the .torrent files. We have been lucky that they haven't hit all of them yet, but it probably won't be long before we have to resort to IRC to grab the shows that sites like tv-torrents.org have listed. Aaron Wormus said on 06/12/05 @ 12:09 PM: Still haven't been able to find FarScape anywhere... can't even buy the DVDs over here :( callisto9 said on 06/13/05 @ 08:31 AM: hmmm. i tried this, but it took me three hours to download an episode of the daily show and even then, the file was corrupted (sound, no video). eh. too much hassle. Post a comment |
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