To RAR or not to RAR

[Gish]

The other day I downloaded a whole season TV pack at bitmetv and downloaded the following season of the same show from TL. quality the same! but the time it took to unrar 24 episodes at TL compared to the season that was already unpacked and ready to go makes me think whats the point! for example say you download a movie 4 gigs and of course you want to seed but you also need to unrar it to watch it. so thats 8 gigs for one movie if not more.
it makes me wounder why the groups put out video files like this, and I'm sure there is some good explanations as to why but I have yet to find one. I read at another forum that release groups get the files pre packed and refuse to unpack because it is too time consuming but maybe there are others?

Let me know what you think!

[Sawyer2020]

well what if there is corrupt file
and what if ur file corrupt
you need dl it all but if it rar u can download just corrupt files again
where the option in poll we can say we want rar files

I voted I really don't mind it
but its should be in rar

[1000possibleclaws]

it doesn't take me very long to unrar something, and i'll do it in the background, i won't sit and watch the percentage complete go up anyways..

[will17]

It's good when using FTP and you can transfer 10 files at once going 250kb/s as opposed to one file at 250kb/s.

[Dark Archon]

Yes the time takes to rar/unrar is tedious but without archived files it's really hard for users on a slow connection to partial seed and maintain a healthy ratio. Despite the "hardship" of WinRAR I still like to have scene releases in archived forms.

[Gish]

It's good when using FTP and you can transfer 10 files at once going 250kb/s as opposed to one file at 250kb/s.

Hmm...
never thought of that.

[Dr_Green_Thumb]

my HD hates RARs

but unpacked is a pain in the ass for uploaders

[dunson]

I don't like RARs at all. I've never had a problem with a file being corrupt on any of my hundreds of uncompressed downloads. I understand it is scene protocol, but torrents aren't "scene", so why require it all the time?

[sokrates]

Yes the time takes to rar/unrar is tedious but without archived files it's really hard for users on a slow connection to partial seed and maintain a healthy ratio. Despite the "hardship" of WinRAR I still like to have scene releases in archived forms.

you can partial seed a non rared file too.. i never have done these stupid partial seeds though.. (its just wasted traffic ) imo if you need to partial seed to get your ratio up, the tracker isnt for you.. although most people have much better upload speed than me..
to the topic.. rars dont make any sense in the torrent world..
and how do you reseed a dvd you have burned to disc?

[Dark Archon]

Yes the time takes to rar/unrar is tedious but without archived files it's really hard for users on a slow connection to partial seed and maintain a healthy ratio. Despite the "hardship" of WinRAR I still like to have scene releases in archived forms.

you can partial seed a non rared file too.. i never have done these stupid partial seeds though.. (its just wasted traffic ) imo if you need to partial seed to get your ratio up, the tracker isnt for you.. although most people have much better upload speed than me..
to the topic.. rars dont make any sense in the torrent world..
and how do you reseed a dvd you have burned to disc?

how do you partial seed on non-rared files? I don't have a magnificent internet connection mate