Telly updates

[caddyman]

Mixed fortunes on the torrents, it seems.

I downloaded and watched Battlestar Galactica: Razor. I have missed BSG and it was good to get more of it now. Shame we have to wait until January for more, though. Some nice background information and a little nostalgia, too.

House season 4, episode 6: Always good value. Well, nearly always. This was a nice one, well worth the watch. The series is returning to form in season 4 after a hit and miss season 3 with its decidedly ropy mid-season arc with Tritter the annoying cop.

Annoyingly, I have expended a fair amount of bandwidth on season 6 of Scrubs. Lovely DVD quality picture (which you would hope from a DVD rip), excellent background and incidental music reproduction. Barely audible voice track. That might be hitting the recycle bin post-haste and receiving a new download from elsewhere.

I have episode 6 of Bionic Woman to watch. Six episodes is enough to give the feel of the series. I am hoping, but not expecting, that this will be the episode that grabs me and makes it a must watch.

Heroes: I have been downloading but not watching season 2. I am waiting until we have about 11 episodes so that it is worth burning to DVD for watching on the telly downstairs. It's taking muck of my will power to keep from watching and I still need another 5 episodes before the expenditure of a DVD is worth the effort!

Comments

[binidj.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere that the creators of Heroes had made a public apology for the first half of Season 2 with promises to do a better job on the second half ... they seemed sincere, and to have identified where they thought they'd gone wrong.

Maybe it might be best to hold off on watching the series till it's got its legs under it for the second half.

[willowing.livejournal.com]

where are you downloading house season 4? i can't find it anywhere. i'd be grateful if you could point me in the direction of the torrent site thanks!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I've been getting it from Torrent Damage, but that's an invitation only site.

Have you tried these fine places: http://www.torrentspy.com/default.asp
http://thepiratebay.org/
http://isohunt.com/forum/login.php

Failing that, if you want to email me your address, I can drop a DVD in the post so you can watch it on your PC at least.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Ooooh any chance of a DVD of Razor?? :D

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought we could manage something.

Will your DVD player decode .avi files, or should we convert to VCD?

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Apparently the older Xbox will do .avi, so my technical adviser told me to request that one :)

Thank you! :D

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Does Furtle know your postal address? If not, email it to me at bryan at lea dot com

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I don't recall if it was an ISO image or not. I haven't burned it to DVD - the .avi files have a poor audio track; I shan't be wasting a disk on them.

I don't suppose you have a watechable version of season 6, do you?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, our DVD player will recognise .avi files, too. But I haven't bothered burning DVDs because the .avi sound on the PC is poor, so I'm not wasting a disk. I watch them on Div-X - these are the only files I've ever downloaded with this problem, so I reckon the problem is with whoever ripped the DVDs to torrent in the first place.

If I drop you a DVD, could you do me a copy of season 6?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Most kind, Me Old Fruit.