Annual Archives: 2006

Hey Kids!

It must be the warmer weather or the spring time of year getting people’s hormones going but there’s a feeling in the air that’s palpable. You can tell it’s going on all around you – just out of sight – and you might be missing out… the feeling of billions of little bits zooming around the net pipes into the living rooms and offices in your neighbourhood.

So I thought I might make things a little easier for you to get in for your share – and of course it helps everyone else doing it at the same time – with a few links to bittorrent resources that are floating my boat.

The most handy site I’ve found for the new shows in the US fall season is iPodNova. You’ve gotta register to get your hands dirty but there’s no restriction for registering and, with a good UL/DL ratio, it makes you feel good with every page you look at, with your personal scoreboard at the top. Get on board at ipodnova.net.

There’s a site that specialises in Australian/New Zealand Sports and TV shows that is normally an invitation only site – oops, it is again now – DAMN! – called Diwana.org. I got a heads up that registrations were open a week or two ago so picked one up – you never know when you’ll wake up all Sports Billy and just HAVE to get a torrent of the NRL Grand Final. Here’s a sample of the shows available on the front page right now:

• What A Year S01E01 XviD – Look back on the year 1975
• Australian Idol S04E21 – Live Verdict – And then there was 8
• MONEY – Paul Clitheroe and Georgie Parker
• A1GP Round 1 – Zandvoort – Sprint and Feature
• Marking Time – Another excellent John Doyle drama.
• NRL Grand Final 2006 – The Grand Final from Channel 9’s telecast on 1/10/06
• neighbours-02-10-06(m).xvid-ss
• Air NZ Cup – R10 – Northland v Southland – Repechage Round 3
• Australian Idol s04 ep20 Top 9 Live Performance singing the Hits From the Year They Were Born
• CNNNN Complete v2
• NRL – The Best Of The Footy Show 2006
• Blue Water High s02e14 27-09-06
• Round 3 A-League Goals – All goals from third round of the 2006 A-League Season
• First Tuesday Book Club 05-09-06

It’s nice having a site that specialises in local TV – even if there is so much sport content there. If there’s another open season for regos or if I happen to earn some invites, I’ll let you guys know.

The other regular one I use for hard-to-gets is bitmetv.org which I got onto through an invite from regular listener, Alex Boxcutter. I’m guessing there’s a fairly high contingent of local members because I was able to get something quite rare like S1&2 of Love My Way from there. The great thing about this site is the quality control of the encoding, etc of the downloads. They’re quite strict about only having one available version of a show in the best quality. I’ve been quite active on this site and have a good ratio (2.550) going on so I might have an invite or two soon…

Other than those – and not necessarily just for TV torrent downloads – I use Torrent Scan which is a handy multi-tracker-searcher that gives you a list of good trackers to run the same search in until you find what you’re after. My faves are isoHunt and Torrent Reactor and then I click around fairly randomly.

So there’s some rockets for your arsenal – get out there and keep our world-beating per-capita rating going (if you’re in Australia – otherwise, forget you read any of this and don’t you dare click on any of those links. DON’T! STOP!)

BB

Last week Brett broke the news that Channel 9 were planning to screen ep 2 then ep 4 of Rome and we speculated if that might be because it would be gone by then…

Next week Survivor is on the 9:30 slot with no sign of Rome.

They suck. Why put anything on at all if you are not going to give it a chance. Sure it didn’t rate great. And Josh didn’t like it. But still, why bother screening it? Very, very disappointing once again. At the risk of sounding like a disgruntled Green Guide writing moron – no wonder so many people are downloading.