How many of you guys use torrents for tv shows?
 

How many of you guys use torrents for tv shows? Even though they are available on tv, just dont have the time to watch them or forget to pvr them?

The benefit of downloading something is you can watch it whenever you want, instead of during a scheduled time.

I don't care enough about TV to torrent it or PVR it. If I happen to catch my shows - fine. If I miss them - life goes on.

For my favourite American shows, sure do.

I do.
But,90% of the shows I download are not on TV anymore-Or DVD.

I stream TV Shows. Ninja Video used to be the shit. I'm settling for TV Shack now...

I don't like risking my ISp coming after me just because I wanted to see a TV show that I can just DVR. I don't torrent anything anymore.

I don't torrent anything. This would be extremely contradictory to me being in the adult industry and not supporting content theft! At least that's my official statement. :-P

i used to, i dont go on torrent sites anymore because they are always loaded with viruses.

torrents are too slow. I use usenet.

I'll dl foreign shows and anything I can't watch/DVR because I'm already recording 2 things at once. I watch a lot of tv. :(

I find downloading shows from EZTV is convenient.

I have a few times in the past, but since getting a DVR a few years ago I don't think I have at all.

well i certainly do

i like the fact that when someone tells a show is good long after show has aired (supernatural)
i can simply download everything i missed

Perhaps that's the very reason for this thread.

Oh... :error

Sometimes but it's rare. I missed Big Bang Theory this week so I downloaded it and just finished watching it.

Never used torrents for anything.

Several of the TV channels here have online catchup.

Nothing is too important to miss though.

I do because if i wait for the shows to show here it would 1-2 years. If they are on tv then no.

Hulu is better quality and if you want the old series Its 10$ a month.

Agreed.

Amazing how many think otherwise.

i boycott torrents, it's the source of all evil when it comes to content theft

Hulu quality doesn't compare to the quality of the files you are able to download online. I've got the Hulu Plus and not quite a replacement for cable...yet. I have a basic cable account with hbo, because they pretty much give me both just to keep me subscribed. I download and hoard pretty much everything I watch. Thankfully I'm not having to record to VCR tapes and have all those laying around.

Downloads in HD format beats Hulu's "HD Quality" every time.

I have my TV downloads all set up and scheduled much like a DVR, which can only handle two shows at once.

I get my Stern, Colbert, Daily Show, South Park all from torrent. TV sucks.

and you guys are surprised that surfers steal porn? :1orglaugh

wish it was available in canada, also we dont get usa network here, which has covert affairs and white collar, as well we dont get fx, tnt, or tbs :/

ya thats the thing that blows with my pvr, i can only do 2 shows at once, sometimes i want to watch a show thats on the same time on 3+ networks.

:mad:

The thing is, most shows on the major networks, you can just go to their site and watch new entire episodes.

My cable provider puts a lot of current shows/movies/tv series etc into a section called Video On Demand. I just click in there and watch any missed episodes any time I feel like it. New episodes usually get entered in there about 5 days to a week after they first run on tv. And it's all free except for the newest rental movies.

So no torrenting for me.

Just use a proxy account and you can watch Hulu and streaming netflix in Canada.

There is something missing in this thread.....


Oh yeah! Michael O .... asking for people's epass usernames and threatening to close their accs!?

Idle threats, and impossible considering no one even bothered to pirate that movie. :1orglaugh

white collar airs on showcase in canada

if you want to timeshift a tv show using the torrents pay for the station that airs it in your country.

Use your old file server / encoding server. You can record as many shows as you have capture cards for. Lookup SageTV as one example, it's real easy. Also you can connect multiple sources, so for example free to air HD stations can be one source, your cable another, satellite another, whatever.

Oh and Netflix just came out in Canada, $7.99 a month, free trial for a month, all streaming. I watch that on my media center on the big TV and on my second monitor in a window or full screen while I work.

same here

Why use torrents when direct downloads are so much faster and less risky...

I getting max speeds on tvtorrents.com .Regarding piracy,i downloading it because that is only way to see my favorite shows,i cant buy it nor see it on tv here.If there would be a service where i would be able to watch episode of show for 2$,then i would pay for it.

Not only do I have a DVR...but if I forget to set it up at the beginning of a season for instance...I also have FREE Cox Cable On Demand. And it has the last episodes for a month for free.

So I just tune into channel 1 and click what I missed.

No need for shitty torrents or possibly getting into trouble or downloading a trojan, etc.

I have never gotten a single trojan or virus from download torrents of TV shows. You might get that shit if you're downloading cracked applications

And the HD quality on the downloads is identical to that of the cable TV feed.

The On Demand service doesn't carry the entire back catalog either. Hulu and Netflix are actually the better option for the old back catalogs.

I can't recall ever hearing anything about the TV Networks going after torrent users.

put up openvpn on your usa servers - > go visit hulu

You know better than me on that one. I'm only thinking about how many idiots send out viruses and trojans every day in every other way, so I figure why not torrents too? But I have never ever used a torrent site so I'm ignorant on that.

And yeah, the on demand is no good for old stuff. I was referring to if I happened to miss a recent episode of something.

If I am a fan of something...I'll go buy the DVD season collection (if it's available) or the movie on BluRay. But I'm not really a fan of television shows to that extent anyway. Once I watch it one time, I'm done with it.

The only things I keep are concert movies because I'm a musician and I love music. But again, I buy those since I'm a fan of all the bands that I collect.

And I think the TV networks have went at it differently. Their programming is already free. It's not the product that they sell....so they are all ad based. So with that business model they have pretty much all set up archived seasons on their network websites to watch.

I only mentioned "getting in trouble" because I don't particularly want to take any chances of going to a site that does contain stolen content and having my IP identified etc.

I like to keep under the radar. :)