I've decided to stop watching TV....

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... sorta. I'm going to start recording all my shows (not that I have that many) and watching them on tape so I can fast-forward through the commercials. Yes, I find them that annoying.

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:wavey: <---- me waving goodbye to advertisers

[blueindian]

Originally posted by overclocked
... sorta. I'm going to start recording all my shows (not that I have that many) and watching them on tape so I can fast-forward through the commercials. Yes, I find them that annoying.

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:wavey: <---- me waving goodbye to advertisers


Got|Tivo?

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Originally posted by blueindian
Got|Tivo? No, but I'll be building a PVR in 3-4 months I hope... My VCR will do for now.

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[Merlin]

I don't even own a tv. I just go to kazaa or torrent and download the shows I want. Bonus: they are all commercial free!

Like that old bumper sticker used to say...kill you television.

[whitak24]

hey, when you've got 56k, you don't have the whole "download shows" option :(

but since i watch, on average, less than 1 show per week, it's ok.

[Hiro]

i think the last time i actually sat down to watch TV was about 5 months ago.

Since I watch movies for a living, i tend to avoid TV when i get home.

[ProMinx]

Yeah, when I moved to my own apartment...I bought a TV...and then chose not to pay for cable or Satellite. I hate television and detest this wave of "reality television". Since when is a few dozen women wooing a poor idiot in some French castle an example of reality? I download television shows from Kazaa too, but not often. Maybe one show every few weeks. Unfortunately I have this well-documented disease called "DVD addiction". I probably buy 2-3 DVDs a week, but I'm running out of movies that I actually want. I currently have something like 135 movies and Television Seasons...and I probably watch 2 to 3 movies...per day.

ProMinx

[Speedfreak]

Get a Replay. Commercial skip works great and you get an ethernet port for the easy transfer of the MPEG2 encoded shows from the box to your computer. Then you can encode to SVCD or DiVX or whatever else you want.

I have the 4504 and am using VGA out directly to the second input on my 21" and am using optical digital out going to my Shuttle XPC so play through my Klipsch 5.1. The video is perfect this way rather then going through my tv card (used to use with my VCR for TV) because it is sending out perfect NTSC resolution.

This is my TV, and it looks and sounds great.

[Merlin]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Honestly.. Kazaa takes too dayuum long. :2far:

What choo talkin' about foo? I know you gots one o dem dar DSL thingys. Think what you want to watch. Start download in morning. Go to work. Come home. Enjoy. Just plan it out and you're set.

I use it for the Sopranos, Smallville, Enterprise, whatever anime I'm into at the moment (Samurai Deeper and Cowboy Beebop)and movies, ah the movies.

[gear02]

Originally posted by Speedfreak
Get a Replay. Commercial skip works great and you get an ethernet port for the easy transfer of the MPEG2 encoded shows from the box to your computer. Then you can encode to SVCD or DiVX or whatever else you want.

I have the 4504 and am using VGA out directly to the second input on my 21" and am using optical digital out going to my Shuttle XPC so play through my Klipsch 5.1. The video is perfect this way rather then going through my tv card (used to use with my VCR for TV) because it is sending out perfect NTSC resolution.

This is my TV, and it looks and sounds great.

I thought the ability to transfer recorded shows to your computer was illegal and that's why TIVO doesn't have it and why SonicBlue got sued up the wazoo when they included it. Is this true?

[Merlin]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Well foolio...

Sorry to hear it has been difficult. I've gotten every episode of DBZ up to like 250 or so and didn't have too many problems. But you are right in that some stuff does take quite a while. Fortunately Smallville and Enterprise are on enough servers to go pretty fast. Better luck to ya.

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by gear02


I thought the ability to transfer recorded shows to your computer was illegal and that's why TIVO doesn't have it and why SonicBlue got sued up the wazoo when they included it. Is this true?

Not sure. I thought they were getting sued over the commercial skip.

[i6s1]

I find it takes about 3-5 days to get a TV ep. (And I usually go for the 300-500 meg versions.) It's fine with me. I save a bunch of money by not having to pay for cable. I would only get 2-3 channels with rabbit ears.

If I paid for cable and had a TV, I wouldn't bother downloading TV, I'd just watch it when it was on. But otherwise, 3-5 days is fine for me. I still get one a week.

I leave my comp on with Kazaa running almost 24/7. Usually they just trickle in, but sometimes they "burst" for a few hours and come in pretty quickly.

BTW, I'm rebuilding my wife's Smallville collection after a major harddrive malfunction, so if anyone wants to trade some eps via MSN or something, let me know.

[Merlin]

Originally posted by i6s1
I find it takes about 3-5 days to get a TV ep. (And I usually go for the 300-500 meg versions.) It's fine with me. I save a bunch of money by not having to pay for cable. I would only get 2-3 channels with rabbit ears.

If I paid for cable and had a TV, I wouldn't bother downloading TV, I'd just watch it when it was on. But otherwise, 3-5 days is fine for me. I still get one a week.

I leave my comp on with Kazaa running almost 24/7. Usually they just trickle in, but sometimes they "burst" for a few hours and come in pretty quickly.

BTW, I'm rebuilding my wife's Smallville collection after a major harddrive malfunction, so if anyone wants to trade some eps via MSN or something, let me know.

I've kept all the episodes. Let me know which ones you need.

[attgig]

Originally posted by Corsec
Since I watch movies for a living, i tend to avoid TV when i get home.

whatchu do? movie critic????



also, aren't there vcr's with commercial skip?
automatically skipping commercials?

[ProMinx]

I actually has to ask him about this over IM. He apparently does QC for DVDs...the lucky bastard.

ProMinx

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by Merlin
I don't even own a tv. I just go to kazaa or torrent and download the shows I want. Bonus: they are all commercial free!

Like that old bumper sticker used to say...kill you television. does torrent still work?

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by DarkFury

Well foolio... for starters, it takes someone to capture the show in the first place... then, they have to be willing to share it and leave their server up long enough for you to download it...

Add in a fair share of "internet congestion" and even a 30 minute episode of a show could take a day maybe 3 to download...

Regardless of my DSL, I can't control how fast the server on the other end is... and from my personal experience, I haven't seen too many downloads come in at above 10Kb per second (many times they creep in at around 1Kb per second [I think that is the unit Kazaa measuures in.. I could be wrong]... or even less, which means that a 60MB+ file takes dayuum near forever to complete...) :eek:

Trust me... I've been tryin' to pull in Dragonball Z episodes, and it's like pullin' teeth sometimes... :angry: hmm that's odd... I've gotten downloads of almost 1500kbps before from work

[Merlin]

Originally posted by brainsmile
does torrent still work?

Yes. Last night I got this week's Enterprise and Smallville. The big 400 meg versions.

[coleslaw]

I normally only watch one show each week. Thursdays on NBC at 8:30. Sometimes I will watch the tolerable show at 8:00 as well, and then the one at 9:00, too. Sometimes. :dodgy: