The Internets Give To Me
Apr. 20th, 2006 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fjAm I the only one who caught the Golden Girls reference in Desperate Housewives this week?
I finally saw it. I tried to download it from the TiVo at home over the public internet, but the connection is so bad the sustained FTP does not work. In frustration I downloaded a BitTorrent client and hit piratebay.org (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jpeace). This torrent thing is god slow, but it survives running on terrible flaky bursty connections for large files. Technically I only have the right to watch an NTSC copy with commercials, but I ended up selecting a version that had commercials edited out from a High Definition broadcast.
My god. The stereo sound. The picture clarity. Clearer, sharper, widescreen, fullscreen.
I am sold on downloading again. Not since the original Audiogalaxy have I felt like this. But I'll only download stuff that my TiVo recorded off TV. I think that is kind of fair.
I finally saw it. I tried to download it from the TiVo at home over the public internet, but the connection is so bad the sustained FTP does not work. In frustration I downloaded a BitTorrent client and hit piratebay.org (thanks,
jpeace). This torrent thing is god slow, but it survives running on terrible flaky bursty connections for large files. Technically I only have the right to watch an NTSC copy with commercials, but I ended up selecting a version that had commercials edited out from a High Definition broadcast.My god. The stereo sound. The picture clarity. Clearer, sharper, widescreen, fullscreen.
I am sold on downloading again. Not since the original Audiogalaxy have I felt like this. But I'll only download stuff that my TiVo recorded off TV. I think that is kind of fair.
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:25 am (UTC)Stay away from HBO, movies, and music, and you're fine, consequence speaking.
Lost in HDTV is unmissable. I won't even watch it on TV now. The only downer is that the effects on a lot of shows look a little rickety in highdef.
Throttle your upstream speed to 80% of what the line can handle if you're using a slightly tunable client and you'll avoid clogging the upstream connection.
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Date: 2006-04-21 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 03:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 11:08 pm (UTC)I thought I was losing my mind trying to remember where I heard "Cindy Lou Peeples" before.