I wish to share something with you all...

[dilla]

TV Shack - tune in


Not sure how many of us know about this site on here, but I've known for a while and just decided to share it with the world.


Sorry if this is old. if I have wasted your time, here is something for your troubles:

 

[Prize Gotti]

I was using this site, but FBI fucked them up, some how they got the domain back and moved to another host and now the site looks terrible, also I can never get the videos to buffer without going to the hosting site itself.

 

[dilla]

Yeah, that was tvshack.net. Now it's .cc.



And streaming works best for me on Megavideo.

 

[Casey]

What's the point in streaming TV shows or movies? You can download them from a torrent and watch them in 10x better quality in a fraction of the time.

I can get a whole 700MB movie DVD rip in about 12 minutes on my connection. An entire season of any TV show takes about 40 minutes.

If there's one particular episode of something I want to watch I can have the whole thing downloaded in like 3 minutes.

 

[Tha_Wood]

i stream the ones hosted by Divxden, i find they are much better quality

 

[S O F I]

agh. lolcats. yes. not a waste of time.


but no, I share Casey's viewpoint and I even have a slower internet connection. I don't even use Hulu.

 

[Prize Gotti]

because i dont like downloading a 1gb file that ill probably watch once. Often I can find whatever movie or show in high quality/HD streamed in my browser, plays instantly, and at the end, i click X in the top right, and its done.

 

[dilla]

because i dont like downloading a 1gb file that ill probably watch once. Often I can find whatever movie or show in high quality/HD streamed in my browser, plays instantly, and at the end, i click X in the top right, and its done.

My God, someone with reason.


If I like a show and just happened to miss a season or have started watching it mid-season, I'll download the episodes. Like I said, I like these shows and usually transfer them to a hard drive to keep to watch later on. But imagine doing that with Seinfeld or the Simpsons or some show with 20+ seasons.

Plus, shows like Top Gear are worth watching only once. Eh, kinda. I dunno. Why download when you can stream? If it was music, it's something else. I download shit albums and delete them and download good ones and keep them.

 

[S O F I]

I understand the reasons for both. Part of it, for me, is old habits and that streams are rarely the same quality as the download.

Here's an example:

The movie is called the evening sun. Here is the megavideo of the DVD rip:

MEGAVIDEO - I'm watching it

But it doesn't look like a DVD rip and I even selected the HD stream version.

If I download it, and I will today, I'm confident the picture will be clearer.

Here's the DL: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6KLYB0RQ

 

[dilla]

Oh, I watch TV shows. I do download movies because I usually stop in between scenes and continue later on. A bit harder to do that on a streaming site.

And I don't watch the TV show for quality. It's not so shitty that it's unwatchable; actually, most of the ones I've seen aren't shitty at all. Not HD, but certainly not comparable to a CAM-quality movie.

 

[Duke]

I've never understood the whole quality rage anyway. Is it really that important that you can count the nose pores of the main character?

If the image quality isn't dreadful enough to make me wanna tear my hair out, I'm cool.

 

[Preach]

I've never understood the whole quality rage anyway. Is it really that important that you can count the nose pores of the main character?

If the image quality isn't dreadful enough to make me wanna tear my hair out, I'm cool.

It's habitual and what TV you have makes a difference I guess. In my experience, I used to say the exact same thing up until about half a year ago. Then I started watching a bunch of HD shit, often straight from Bluray. Movies I normally download in 1080p. I watch them on a 50" or a 52", so the difference is pretty huge to me. I rarely ever need a movie done in 20 minutes, if I'm watching a movie I download it the day before. Or I download 10 movies and choose one among them. So getting them in HD makes no difference to my experience other than being more visually pleasing. Got mo' ratio on torrent sites than I'll ever need, anyway.