Why would you rather have 2CD rips, a single 1.50GB is much better. Does the scene not know DVD's were invented and the CD era is long gone.

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As you know, the 2-CD rip was established as the old Scene standard years ago, and I guess old habits can be slow to change, especially in the Scene's rigid rules.

I'm quite happy with the small "aXXO-standard" Xvid files of 700MBx1 because I'd rather have a fast download than super-high resolution. (though a few years ago when most releases were in VCD format, most 1-CD VCD releases had a noticably fuzzy picture, so 2-disk VCD releases were definitely better.)

A few years ago I bought a Philips DVP-642 (back when it was the only DVD player that played divx) and it only plays divx movies burned on CD (or the first 700MB of a DIVX DVD). Although it mostly just collects dust these days, if I want to use it I must download 700MB divx/xvid rips to feed it. (I know there are much better DVD players these days that have USB jacks and aren't crippled by the 700MB divx limit -- but I'm just lazy)

The edonkey scene was smart to agree on a standard that fits several movies on a DVD with no wasted space, but I can't answer why no one outside of ed2k uses it. I used to wonder why it took so long for the Scene to switch from VCD to Xvid/DivX on cam/telesync releases - as a 1-CD Xvid is better quality than a 2-CD VCD - not to mention half the bandwidth.

ed2k, people talk shit about ed2k but it's still the best out there, for "rare" files and even the hot one's now-a-days, and I log on every once in awhile just to see how many sources stuff has, and it's still kicking and kicking hard. I started with ed2k when it first came online, so I've been around it for years, they were smart when they decided on those rules.

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I hate those 2 cd rips, would be much better if it was a single file

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btw 500-1000GB
i dont see what is the point of using newsgroups if you download 10,20,50 GB i would use torrents or rs instead of paying for 20 GB but thats just me
my downloads are mostly dvd,hd stuff.... 4+GB files

I do between 750-1000tb..usually..Now I am doing xbox probably double that..And hey a big thank you to Sons and Tower for getting things up quick for us also

Where do you store all your stuff? Surely you don't have 50+ 1TB HDD's?

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LOL 1000tb. Surelly Mpeace you mean 750 gig to 1tb

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On average about 150-300GB/Month. If I look back on my usage page at Giganews, the yearly total drops my jaw.

Then again, all of it is burned off (eventually) to dvd's. I have two large cabinets filled with binders than hold about 150 DVD's each. To store and process I have some 4+TB of disc space, adding to that (with the price of 1.5TB drives...) at least one drive a month now. Going forward on storage (exp. now with all the x.264/AVCHD stuff) is a major headache. Do I add more raw space, go with Raidx off a machine motherboard, go with a network array, or ...??

I've got a spreadsheet where I massage the costs, but for now I'm sticking with adding simple (1.5TB) drives since I have the sata ports in abundance. But at some point (by the end of this year?) I've got to make a major move one way or the other.

I have an average of 412GB/month. 4 years with GN.

Even downloaded 1.5TB one month. Don't even remember what it was but it was certainly more than just porn

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