"And I'll find him..."

[beandelphiki]

Just watched the cinema trailer for Doctor Who Series Four:

HOLY CRAP I AM SO EXCITED! It's the return of DONNA! I'm all little-kid-about-to-pee-myself.

So now I need to figure out how torrents work. Because if the bloody CBC thinks I'm waiting until fucking JUNE or something to see this show, they are CRAZY. Get with the 21st century, guys!

ALSO, I need to finally watch Voyage of the Damned. Yes, I have it. No, I haven't watched it...it's the only "new" thing that was left to watch, besides Doctor Who Confidential and such.

Now I have to squeeze it into my crazy schedule somewhere. Whoops.

Comments

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

I always go to mininova.org to get the torrents. just use the search feature. For a bittorrent client, I use utorrent, at utorrent.com. It's small and easy and free. Since you have a good connection, you could find a fancier one, if you wanted.

At mininova, the tvshows are usually listed by name, and then season(2 digits)episode(2 digits) Like: "House S04E02" would search for House, MD, Season 4, Episode 2. It will also find Desperate Housewives Season4, Episode2, but that's not that big a deal.

Then, when all that comes up, I usually click on the top of the "seeds" column, to sort by number of seeds. Seeds are people online who have 100% of the file available for download. Often, there are 10 or so files of the same show, like House s04e02, but most of them only have 1 or 2 seeds, and so are kind of useless for downloading. The "best" by which I mean the one that people are downloading the most, will sometimes have 900 seeds. That's one that will be easy to get, and also is probably not one that is broken or misnamed, otherwise people wouldn't be downloading it.

It just works better that way imho.

Of course I'm sure there are 500 other ways to get torrents. Usually, you have to download the torrent, once you find it. It's a small file. Then on utorrent, select "add torrent" and then pick the torrent that you dl'ed. That will get it started. The "torrent" is just, like, a marker that tells the bittorrent client what file to grab on the internet. Most tv shows are about 350MB. If it's significantly more than that, like 700MB, then it might be an HD version that might not work for you.

Alternately, you could google for the stuff... like House s04e02. That works, too, but Mininova.org has never failed me yet.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the help, again.

And when I downloaded Voyage of the Damned (just as an avi. file), I found it is, in fact, about 700MB. Are you saying most shows can't be had for that quality? Because it looks really good, so that would be a shame.

...Not that I couldn't live with it if I had to deal with far inferior picture (as long as you can make out what's going on), but it was a very pleasant surprise when I opened the file and could see no real difference between it and my DVDs.

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

you know, I don't really know. I've only downloaded the 350mb files because it took us 10 days to do so. I know the 700mb files are there, though. Maybe they're just fine... I mean, since you've already got one and it looks great... if it doesn't take that long to download, I'd say go for it!