does anyone else (grabit realted question)

[Spider_dude]

open 2 slots when downloading from grabit and make it a race between the two to finish? then take side bets on which slot will win first? or is it just me?

[Spider_dude]

number 2 is winning just now, just ahead of number 8

[Spider_dude]

number 8 won in the end.

[Proper Bo]

just you, i use flashget

[Cheese]

Newsgroups > TiVo

[Spider_dude]

tivo is super ghey

[GepperRankins]

i do it :dabs:

[JPaul]

I do it.

Green > Blue. Fact.

[Cheese]

Lesbian cowboys > Pooflord Cowboys

[Busyman]

open 2 slots when downloading from grabit and make it a race between the two to finish? then take side bets on which slot will win first? or is it just me?

number 2 is winning just now, just ahead of number 8

number 8 won in the end.

Uh..er..yeah...I thought I was the one off work for 8+ weeks.:huh:

Lotsa time on yer hands there.:blink:

Tivo > Newsgroups

I saw the last episodes of Lost, 24, and Medium already....in HD....on a screen larger than 25".:P

[tesco]

Newsleecher>GrabIt>TIVO :snooty:

[Biggles]

:blink:

eh?

Edit: above applies to every post so far

[Busyman]

Newsleecher>GrabIt>TIVO :snooty:
Keep watching on your computer monitor....that's after you download and encode it.

:ph34r:

[GepperRankins]

Newsleecher>GrabIt>TIVO :snooty:
Keep watching on your computer monitor....that's after you download and encode it.

:ph34r:
:dabs:

[ziggyjuarez]

ok i get newsgroups and have downloaded a few movies already.
But it doesnt seem to have a lot of content and is a little annoying clicking on every rar file.
bittorrent>newsgroups

[JPaul]

Busboy doesn't have a divx player. He has to tape stuff off the telly. No wonder he's bitter and twisted.

Download, burn, play. It's really not that complicated.

Feck sake a Welshman can do it.

[manker]

Newsleecher>GrabIt>TIVO :snooty:
Keep watching on your computer monitor....that's after you download and encode it.

:ph34r:Either shit roddage or shit thinkage.

Why would you have to encode something to watch it on your monitor.

Why would you have to encode something to watch it on your TV. DivX players are cheap - so are DVDrws.

As for downloading, if you're TiVoing something, that means there will be a wait between airing the program and you watching it. You can download it in that time.

The added bonus of a NewsHosting account is that you can use it for stuff that is not airing at the moment. Newsgroups have far, far more selection than your TV schedule. You click an nzb and max your connection, making it superior than other p2p.

If you had an account, you could even use it to get porn quickly for perusal in your wanking pit.

TiVo sucks c.f. a NewsHosting account. Fact.

[manker]

Busboy doesn't have a divx player. He has to tape stuff off the telly. No wonder he's bitter and twisted.

Download, burn, play. It's really not that complicated.

Feck sake a Welshman can do it.How did you know I was typing that :ermm:

[Snee]

Busboy doesn't have a divx player. He has to tape stuff off the telly. No wonder he's bitter and twisted.

Download, burn, play. It's really not that complicated.

Feck sake a Welshman can do it.How did you know I was typing that :ermm:
Do you know how predictable you've been today?

[JPaul]

How did you know I was typing that :ermm:
Do you know how predictable you've been today?
:lol: irl

[manker]

This is too weird for me to laugh :dabs:

[Busyman]

Keep watching on your computer monitor....that's after you download and encode it.

:ph34r:Either shit roddage or shit thinkage.

Why would you have to encode something to watch it on your monitor.

Why would you have to encode something to watch it on your TV. DivX players are cheap - so are DVDrws.

As for downloading, if you're TiVoing something, that means there will be a wait between airing the program and you watching it. You can download it in that time.

The added bonus of a NewsHosting account is that you can use it for stuff that is not airing at the moment. Newsgroups have far, far more selection than your TV schedule. You click an nzb and max your connection, making it superior than other p2p.

If you had an account, you could even use it to get porn quickly for perusal in your wanking pit.

TiVo sucks c.f. a NewsHosting account. Fact.
:rod:

[JPaul]

Either shit roddage or shit thinkage.

Why would you have to encode something to watch it on your monitor.

Why would you have to encode something to watch it on your TV. DivX players are cheap - so are DVDrws.

As for downloading, if you're TiVoing something, that means there will be a wait between airing the program and you watching it. You can download it in that time.

The added bonus of a NewsHosting account is that you can use it for stuff that is not airing at the moment. Newsgroups have far, far more selection than your TV schedule. You click an nzb and max your connection, making it superior than other p2p.

If you had an account, you could even use it to get porn quickly for perusal in your wanking pit.

TiVo sucks c.f. a NewsHosting account. Fact.
:rod:


Anyone, other than Busboy, who believes that was a true rod, put their hand up.

[manker]

If that was really rodding, which I said it could be, this means that you think a NewsHosting account is better than having a TiVo.

Which means you've been rodding for months and months.


Something doesn't ring quite true.

[JPaul]

Something doesn't ring quite true.
Stop that.

[Busyman]

If that was really rodding, which I said it could be, this means that you think a NewsHosting account is better than having a TiVo.

Which means you've been rodding for months and months.


Something doesn't ring quite true.
They are 2 different things, wankboy. I wouldn't trade one for the other.

With Tivo, I set it and forget it and actually the Tivo is more convenient for what I watch the most....current American TV in HD.

I have a Divx player in my Xbox, no probs there. (and it upconverts too)


Oh and I've been rodding (not trolling) for longer than that just 'cause it's fun.

[JPaul]

If that was really rodding, which I said it could be, this means that you think a NewsHosting account is better than having a TiVo.

Which means you've been rodding for months and months.


Something doesn't ring quite true.
They are 2 different things, wankboy. I wouldn't trade one for the other.

With Tivo, I set it and forget it and actually the Tivo is more convenient for what I watch the most....current American TV in HD.

I have a Divx player in my Xbox, no probs there. (and it upconverts too)


Oh and I've been rodding (not trolling) for longer than that just 'cause it's fun.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Is it OK for me to say that I love this guy.

[manker]

If that was really rodding, which I said it could be, this means that you think a NewsHosting account is better than having a TiVo.

Which means you've been rodding for months and months.


Something doesn't ring quite true.
They are 2 different things, wankboy. I wouldn't trade one for the other.

With Tivo, I set it and forget it and actually the Tivo is more convenient for what I watch the most....current American TV in HD.

I have a Divx player in my Xbox, no probs there. (and it upconverts too)


Oh and I've been rodding (not trolling) for longer than that just 'cause it's fun.You use newsgroups now and you wouldn't trade that for TiVo nor Tivo for that.

You rod now and have been doing so for months and months.

I think not.

[JPaul]

They are 2 different things, wankboy. I wouldn't trade one for the other.

With Tivo, I set it and forget it and actually the Tivo is more convenient for what I watch the most....current American TV in HD.

I have a Divx player in my Xbox, no probs there. (and it upconverts too)


Oh and I've been rodding (not trolling) for longer than that just 'cause it's fun.You use newsgroups now and you wouldn't trade that for TiVo nor Tivo for that.

You rod now and have been doing so for months and months.

I think not.


Hoi, unless you understand how his Xbox upconverts I suggest that you STFU.

[manker]

You use newsgroups now and you wouldn't trade that for TiVo nor Tivo for that.

You rod now and have been doing so for months and months.

I think not.


Hoi, unless you understand how his Xbox upconverts I suggest that you STFU.
:lol:

Just got some gin out, cos it's Dave's Bday. Not got any ice so I decided to break up one of the lad's orange tip-tops and float it in the drink.

Sometimes, I'm so resourceful that it scares me.

[Busyman]

They are 2 different things, wankboy. I wouldn't trade one for the other.

With Tivo, I set it and forget it and actually the Tivo is more convenient for what I watch the most....current American TV in HD.

I have a Divx player in my Xbox, no probs there. (and it upconverts too)


Oh and I've been rodding (not trolling) for longer than that just 'cause it's fun.You use newsgroups now and you wouldn't trade that for TiVo nor Tivo for that.

You rod now and have been doing so for months and months.

I think not.
Tivo and Newsgroups are 2 different animals.

Ok if I had to choose one I would pick Tivo out of shear convenience.
I already get any new DVD that comes out.

Newgroups (all internet TV downloads for that matter) are great if you want a TV show that you recently missed on network TV. It's also good for getting the obscure.

For you to watch the most recent episode of Lost or BSG, you have to dl the episode or wait 'till brat telly shows it.

I would only dl if my power went out thus shutting off my box.

[JPaul]

Hoi, unless you understand how his Xbox upconverts I suggest that you STFU.
:lol:

Just got some gin out, cos it's Dave's Bday. Not got any ice so I decided to break up one of the lad's orange tip-tops and float it in the drink.

Sometimes, I'm so resourceful that it scares me.
You, Sir are an improv God.

Dave who's bidet btw.

[JPaul]

I would only dl if my power went out thus shutting off my box.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that's just mad talk.

[Cheese]

My point was that TiVo is a neat thing (by the sounds of it), but as things go Newsgroups totally pwns it. TiVo is very much limited to TV as far as I know, and a couple of hours delay and a cable from a PC into a TV doesn't present much of a viewing problem for a competent downloader. Thus Newsgroups > TiVo.

TiVo (or RVD) is a device I would maybe buy if I wasn't proficent at getting content off of the internet or I had trouble setting my video recorder. Just like I would post a letter to my mum if I didn't know how to use email (though to be honest, shouting out of my window really loud would also work in my case).

[Busyman]

My point was that TiVo is a neat thing (by the sounds of it), but as things go Newsgroups totally pwns it. TiVo is very much limited to TV as far as I know, and a couple of hours delay and a cable from a PC into a TV doesn't present much of a viewing problem for a competent downloader. Thus Newsgroups > TiVo.

TiVo (or RVD) is a device I would maybe buy if I wasn't proficent at getting content off of the internet or I had trouble setting my video recorder. Just like I would post a letter to my mum if I didn't know how to use email (though to be honest, shouting out of my window really loud would also work in my case).
Mmk. With Tivo I don't have to get content off the internet.:snooty:

It's like questioning a person with a VCR, "why record when you can download it?" :slap:Doh!!:slap:

Not only that Tivo records in HD and I don't always see HD quality off teh dl. Once you watch in HD it's hard to watch regular definition.

[Carcinus]

My point was that TiVo is a neat thing (by the sounds of it), but as things go Newsgroups totally pwns it. TiVo is very much limited to TV as far as I know, and a couple of hours delay and a cable from a PC into a TV doesn't present much of a viewing problem for a competent downloader. Thus Newsgroups > TiVo.

TiVo (or RVD) is a device I would maybe buy if I wasn't proficent at getting content off of the internet or I had trouble setting my video recorder. Just like I would post a letter to my mum if I didn't know how to use email (though to be honest, shouting out of my window really loud would also work in my case).
Mmk. With Tivo I don't have to get content off the internet.:snooty:

It's like questioning a person with a VCR, "why record when you can download it?" :slap:Doh!!:slap:


Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to wait till stuff is released to watch it on TiVo? If not then hey, sorry. But if so then Newsgroups>TiVo.

[Busyman]

Mmk. With Tivo I don't have to get content off the internet.:snooty:

It's like questioning a person with a VCR, "why record when you can download it?" :slap:Doh!!:slap:


Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to wait till stuff is released to watch it on TiVo? If not then hey, sorry. But if so then Newsgroups>TiVo.
Then you don't have subscribed TV at all then.

Good man and now it makes sense.

I take it you live in bratland.

If BSG comes on over here at it's regularly scheduled time and I miss it, I go and select it and watch it when I'm ready.

If it's available, you will download it, and either watch it on your piece o shit monitor or burn it to disc and watch it on your Divx player in standard definition. I did forget you might have the computer hooked up to your TV (like most people do apparently), so you download it and play it on your piece o shit TV.

I did something similar for Dr. Who although the PQ was no HD. I'm not really interested nor do I know about a multitude of brat shows so for TV......

Tivo > Newsgroups

I still have stuff on Tivo I haven't watched yet. I just saw Napoleon Dynamite not long ago ffs (good movie).

[Cheese]

Not only that Tivo records in HD and I don't always see HD quality off teh dl. Once you watch in HD it's hard to watch regular definition.

It's also hard to watch stuff with broadcast flags...coming soon!!!111

[Busyman]

Not only that Tivo records in HD and I don't always see HD quality off teh dl. Once you watch in HD it's hard to watch regular definition.

It's also hard to watch stuff with broadcast flags...coming soon!!!111
Agreed. That'll fuck up those new Blu-Ray and HD-DVD recorders big time.

BFs won't fuck with Tivo though.

[Cheese]

Tivo > Newsgroups


You need to qualify that because TiVo is shite for music, games, applications and porn.

[Busyman]

Tivo > Newsgroups


You need to qualify that because TiVo is shite for music, games, applications and porn.
Agreed.

Newsgroups are shit for watching TV shows in HD and lack convenience.

[Cheese]

You need to qualify that because TiVo is shite for music, games, applications and porn. Agreed.

Newsgroups are shit for watching TV shows in HD and lack convenience.
At the rate that HD content has prevaded Newsgroups (coupled with ever increasing broadband speeds) and the continued ease of use of programs like Grabit in the last year that assertion will start to sound hollow.

[tesco]

Newsleecher>GrabIt>TIVO :snooty:
Keep watching on your computer monitor....that's after you download and encode it.

:ph34r:
I don't have to encode.
I can watch whenever I want.
I can watch on any TV or comp screen in my house that I want to.
:huh:

[Busyman]

Keep watching on your computer monitor....that's after you download and encode it.

:ph34r:
I don't have to encode.
I can watch whenever I want.
I can watch on any TV or comp screen in my house that I want to.
:huh:
Uh yeah....that's been over with.:huh:

[Busyman]

Agreed.

Newsgroups are shit for watching TV shows in HD and lack convenience.
At the rate that HD content has prevaded Newsgroups (coupled with ever increasing broadband speeds) and the continued ease of use of programs like Grabit in the last year that assertion will start to sound hollow.
It isn't now though. If the twats start shutting down sites with those files then your assertion will start to hollow.

The difference in watching Lost on a TV when coming home.....

You

find file
download file
burn file
watch on Divx player (in standard definition)

Me

select the show
watch in HD

[Cheese]

Why do I need to burn my files?
Why do I need to use a Divx player (in standard definition)?

Edit: Also, no-one is about to shut down any site "with those files", they might (and I stress 'might') shut down the indexing sites.

[Busyman]

Why do I need to burn my files?
Why do I need to use a Divx player (in standard definition)?

Edit: Also, no-one is about to shut down any site "with those files", they might (and I stress 'might') shut down the indexing sites.
My bad re: your edit.

I keep forgetting about the PC being hooked up to your TV or you watch on your computer monitor.

I used to watch on a monitor as well.

[4play]

newsgroups > tivo since i get to watch all the latest shows from the states months before i would ever see them over here.

alt.binaries.hdtv is a pretty busy group these days. Its just a shame no bugger this side of the pond really has a hdtv.

[Busyman]

newsgroups > tivo since i get to watch all the latest shows from the states months before i would ever see them over here.

alt.binaries.hdtv is a pretty busy group these days. Its just a shame no bugger this side of the pond really has a hdtv.
Makes sense to me.

For you to watch the most recent episode of Lost or BSG, you have to dl the episode or wait 'till brat telly shows it.


If TV programming in the States was shit and brat TV was teh shizzle I'd loive newsgroups > Tivo too.

I at least thought some of the folks saying newsgroups > Tivo at the very least used Tivo before.

I have used both.

I think BSkyB is rolling out HD service this year and there already is Euro1080/HD1.

Once you watch in HD you'll never wanna go back. You'll think a DVD picture is shit.

I had tons of movies on DVD that I had never seen and waited until I got an upconvert player to watch them.