Collecting TV Shows

*lol* thats another thing. i would share hdd with friends (if they were into us-series) but not with some
total stranger i met on the web. it would be great to get some series from someone else but it's hard if all
your friends watch regular tv (in their language => german). i need time and effort, yes, but the isp fees
are always the same, with or without dling my stuff 🙂

i'm glad (but not surprised) that i'm not the only one here who compulsively
collects shows. if i get more than half of one season downloaded, i just need
to go for the whole series. it's a disease, and the only cure is cowbell. i've
got 3 250g hdds filled to the brim and some 100-125 dvdrs just for tv, about 1/3
of them dual layer. within the last year i've been trying to highdefinize
everything that can be, but that's a much bigger challenge, in bandwidth and
storage terms, since the filesizes are roughly 3x. my current 500g p2p-drive
looks like it will fill up faster than the last 250... shows are now coming out
on blu-ray and hddvd, causing there to be a lot of really high quality 720 and
1080p releases coming out lately, but some of these are just absurdly huge (i'm
looking at you, 1.5gb 20 minute weeds episodes). this post was actually pretty
therapeutic. maybe now i won't leave my usenet downloader on all night ... nah.

thanks for this, really great quote 🙂

i don't have that much series, because i lost one 160 gb this year and i hate to burn dvds but its getting
more and more and as you said, hdtv stuff really is nice 🙂 and i'm only loading heroes in 720p yet, i
would load chuck, reaper & supernatural too but i'm not sure if they will be always available on free
trackers. maybe eztv will bring those as 720p releases too.

heroes in 720p is 1.1 gb. i downloaded one episode in 1080p last week (2.2 gb). it looks really great but
it's too much for me at this moment ☹️ (768kb down) i would be happy to trade these big eps with
someone i know but there isn't anyone (yet).

i suppose the other point in trading is it depends on where you are. because
we're from all over the world, it would probably be a bit hard.

i was only pulling imzadi's chain before, cause i know he's in aus (even though
we're a state apart!). nice idea though.

i do have a friend that i would like to share with, but the problem then arises
that she runs a mac (blah!) and i run a pc. i wanted to buy a portable hdd,
but none that i know of are compatible with both.

i'm so glad i'm not alone. i have 3 full 500gb hdds, and counting.

that's after 2 500gb drives blew up -on the same day- ☹️

there's only one easy way to exchange tv shows - uni college networks. everyone
has all seasons shared and over mbit lan lines its not hard nor does it take
long to grab stuff. the main sharers there will have complete seasons of all
shows - one guy even had all 9 seasons of top gear.

yeah, half of my media is backed up. fortunately i frequently share with a few
mates, so was able to recover most of it (and still do). it's just the
disappointment of all that wasted time finding stuff, waiting for it to
download (which is tedious in itself, having crappy speeds in nz).. all just
to replace it in a matter of hours.

no hard work required 😉

ok, i'm officially a twit. i just found out that the mac's can read a pc hdd,
but not the other way around. so problem solved. so i'm off to buy a new
hdd!!!! 🙂

i'm also on a mac (wich is great..) and macs (with os 10.4) can read & write on fat32 and readonly ntfs at
this moment. dunno if the new os (leopard) can write on ntfs but there are some betadrivers wich can be
used for that. i formatted my 500gb hdd to 10 gb fat32 and the rest to ntfs (because at that time i
didn't have a mac, the 10gb partition was added) and i throw everything on the 10gb from my mac and
copy that stuff to the bigger partition when i'n on windows. works great. and other people can read my
stuff 🙂

ps: and pc can read external mac hdds with a extra driver or program. just google for it, its free 🙂

hey i recommended even though its a bit lame but go to a lan party in your
state...
there is so much file sharing there its crazy
in one 1 i downloaded 1tb of tv shows
took ages to burn them to disk but now iv got almost all the shows iv eva
wanted to watch and some i never new i wanted to watch lol
thats prob the best way to go