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Downloading Movies and TV Series

 
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AussieGav



Joined: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Uijeongbu

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:04 pm    Post subject: Downloading Movies and TV Series Reply with quote

I'm a bit new to this. Can someone give me some good web links and advice on downloading movies tv series etc.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First look up utorrent, bitlord, bitcomet, or an alternative, and download it.

Next, go to www.isohunt.com or www.mininova.org and type in the shows you want. You will download a torrent that should be opened by your program, and the show will begin downloading. It can take anywhere from five minutes to a couple days, depending on popularity and file size.
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your first step is to download a program that will allow you to download torrents. I use bittornado, but there are countless others. For me, bittornado is as simple as it gets.

Once you have that installed, choose a torrent site. I use isohunt, mininova, and a couple of others to find the shows and movies I want to see.

The sites usually contain feedback for each individual download. Users will post info on the A/V quality, or post warnings if there is harmful stuff contained in the files or if it's just a fake.

Click on the torrent you want and you can choose where you'd like to save your stuff.

Keep in mind, this process can be pretty slow at first. You should try to choose files with high numbers of seeds/seeders. The download will creep at first, but as you connect to more people the rate will increase.

On average, you can download a 700MB movie (standard format) in around an hour. TV shows (175 or 350MB) will take about half that.

Happy hunting.
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AussieGav



Joined: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Uijeongbu

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks guys a great help. Do you store them on CD/DVD?
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can store them on CD/DVD if you really want, but I usually watch shows and delete them.
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seoulsucker



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a secondary 200MB HD that I use just for movies and shows. My PC is connected to my HDTV so I don't have any need to burn them onto disks.
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chevro1et



Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Really good guide to understanding how bit torrents work and how to set up your bit torrent client here:
http://www.slyck.com/bt.php
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espoir



Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Incheon, South Korea

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just store them on your comp. I think i've got about 100 movies on my comp and no diea how many TV shows. BTW I use mininova and have never had a problem with it. Been using it for the past 5 years. All you need is Utorrent and your good to go.


As a side note downloading movies/music is illegal in Korea. In Canada its perfectly legal, but like America, you cant download movies/music here for free. I still do regardless, but just be wary of your co-workers if you download while at work. I just tell them its from a CDN website and its all good, they havent equired since.
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jkamphof



Joined: 12 Apr 2008

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to erase and then found I simply wanted them again, so I had to re-download months or years later. So, I just buy more harddrives now, cheaper and take a lot less room then DVD's.

I now have about 2 terabytes of TV and Movies (a lot of nature shows). I usually erase the crap I never enjoyed, but if I liked it I keep it. I love my massive library.

You can buy a 500GB HDD and case for about 100,000 or less and that'll store a massive about of media.

Two of our drives are media players (they have a terabyte drive in a case that connects to the TV via RCA, S-video or component). This case runs around 89,000 vrs. 30,000 or so for a simple USB case.
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AussieGav



Joined: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Uijeongbu

PostPosted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great response and info guys thanks a lot.
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Toon Army



Joined: 12 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually use Isohunt or mininova as they have comments next the to the torrent you want to download as to whether they`re fake or not.........sidereel.com. tv-links, and alluc.org are pretty good sometimes for streams
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call_the_shots



Joined: 10 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jkamphof wrote:
I used to erase and then found I simply wanted them again, so I had to re-download months or years later. So, I just buy more harddrives now, cheaper and take a lot less room then DVD's.

I now have about 2 terabytes of TV and Movies (a lot of nature shows). I usually erase the crap I never enjoyed, but if I liked it I keep it. I love my massive library.

You can buy a 500GB HDD and case for about 100,000 or less and that'll store a massive about of media.

Two of our drives are media players (they have a terabyte drive in a case that connects to the TV via RCA, S-video or component). This case runs around 89,000 vrs. 30,000 or so for a simple USB case.


They're up to 500GB already? The terebyte hard drives must be on the horizon. Although it will be difficult for me to get adjusted to the TB abbreviation. Rolling Eyes
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terrabyte drives are already here!

About 150,000won for a 1000GB drive in Yongsan.

I have a 500GB and a 640GB in my main PC.

It's best to leave at least 15% space on each hard drive though. Fill them to the max and the become slow and buggy.

Now that Blu-ray rips in x264 format are becoming easily available on download sites, you'll find that even 1TB gets filled pretty quick. The average blu-ray rip being about 8GB per movie.
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