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[#45980]
Written by: anarky [18/07/2007, 05:07] |
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in a eureka episode forum i posted the following, and i decided to make it into a thread of it\'s own because i think it\'s something every eztv user would be interested in if they haven\'t run across it yet...streaming tv sites. i don\'t know if this post is against forum rules...if it is, please delete immediately--i for sure don\'t want to get banned. anyway, users might want to check out these semi-new sites that are popping up that index streaming video of full movies and tv seasons...for example: (remember to replace the xx\'s with tt\'s when you copy and paste the url in browser) http://www.tv-links.co.uk/ http://www.alluc.org/ http://www.peekvid.com/ http://tv-video.net/ http://broughtoyou.com/forums/ they are actually pretty cool if you don\'t have time or for some other reason don\'t want to download shows. i\'m not saying they are better than this site (they aren\'t), but if you don\'t mind lower quality, streaming video, they come in quite handy. i watched the whole eureka season 1 using these sites instead of spending a night downloading them first. in fact, some of the sites will point to copies of shows that are hosted on sites like veoh or stage6, where the compression and quality is close to your typical .avi encode. good stuff. once again, i\'m not cheerleading for any particular site and i\'m definitely not telling people to use these instead of eztv...i love this site and i think it\'s the highest caliber tv site of it\'s kind. just letting people know of an alternative in case they can\'t find older shows on here, or on other torrent sites, for that matter. |
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[#45982]
Written by: sphoo [18/07/2007, 05:26] |
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great post, thanks anarky! i live by alluc.org when i'm working the late shift and have nothing else to do with my company bandwidth, its great for all the random uk comedies like peep show, black books etc that i always miss first time around. |
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[#45998]
Written by: CTU_Bauer [18/07/2007, 07:32] |
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it's only worth watching tv in mass when it's in divx, which is why i love stage6.divx.com -- i'm greatful that the majority of the shows i seek out on tv-links are hosted on stage6, but sometimes they miss some shows. so it might be worth running a search there if you still can't find what you're looking for. |
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[#46250]
Written by: frog1234 [19/07/2007, 18:35] |
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might be worth adding that there are sites that stream tons of channels from the worlds tv stations and i think it's excellent that such places exist but the quality level makes it a curiosity only, plus who wants to go back to watching tv on someone else's schedule? |
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[#46321]
Written by: anarky [20/07/2007, 04:04] |
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well, as i said before, that's the most obvious fault of these sites...actually two faults: 1) compression quality 2) hosted link reliability as for quality, yes, i agree that these sites only come in handy when you can't find what you're looking for anywhere else, or when you just feel like casually checking out some shows to pass the time (albeit on-demand, with no downtime for actually downloading the content). for example, i never watched the witchblade tv series when it was released, and recently i've been just casually watching an episode here or there when i have time. it's handy on the off-days when none of my regular shows are released, and i just wanna watch something immediately. it *is* kinda satisfying to be able to just click a link and have the tv show pop up right away and start streaming with no download wait. as far as hosted link reliability, that's a whole other issue. basically it's just up to the admins of these sites on how actively they want to keep links updated. but hey, with no registrations and no fees, it's still a cool concept. i think it's also interesting to point out joost, which is the new thing from the creators of kazaa and skype. i received an invite for it recently (it's still in beta). although it sucks ass, the concept seems promising if it could someday be applied to the open-source p2p community. the way i understand it, this new protocol is supposed to be like a bittorrent version of streaming video. the video file itself isn't hosted on any one central server...instead it's content is spread over a swarm of users, and those users can view the video by tapping into the downstream. looks like something that could be promising, but for now, the platform sucks--it's in cooperation with just a few cable companies and features dull, limited content like reruns of max headroom from the '80s... |
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[#46709]
Written by: MidgardDragon [23/07/2007, 00:05] |
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thank you so much! i couldn't get the first episode of earth 2 to work on tv-links (already knew about that site) but it works on alluc.org! now i can finally relive this series and see any episodes i missed. just too bad it got canned early. |
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[#47004]
Written by: Kimmers [24/07/2007, 06:28] |
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my question is while yes theses sites off a lot of different shows can you download to your computer from any of them? |
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[#47328]
Written by: MidgardDragon [25/07/2007, 04:55] |
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you can download to your computer via alluc.org (and veoh). you just have to dl the veoh player but it still downloads in .avi format and you can burn the file to dvd or do whatever from there. |
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[#47976]
Written by: God [27/07/2007, 09:15] |
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no one cares. | |||||
[#53465]
Written by: ncs [29/08/2007, 20:44] |
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http://nickscoolstuff.co.nr | |||||
[#53491]
Written by: topoopon [30/08/2007, 00:46] |
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