Chile Forum

I currently have cable TV, but question the need for it. There are some TV shows and even movies available online but I would like input from people about their favorite method of downloading, streaming video, whatever it might be. It might also include favorite websites.

Be kind and keep in mind I am probably nowhere near as high tech as many of you!

Thanks, Laura

Why not take a look at http://www.joost.com. I am actually not able to get it to work but that is a problem with telefonica del sur I believe (something with udp traffic that is blocked ... ). Joost is a new iptv service developed by the skype guys (a Swede and a Dane btw ) and could potentially have a similar impact on tv as skype had on phone calls.

Interesting, thanks.

Depends on how legal you want to be. With p2p apps such as emule and bittorrent you can get many TV shows within hours/days of their first worldwide broadcast. There are even web sites to let you find download links to whole seasons of most TV series.

I've done a little with bittorrents but haven't tried movies or TV yet. I guess I should!

Here's a torrentsite only for TVshows ... http://www.eztvefnet.org. Torrentsites for other stuff just use google and you'll see "millions" of sites (hmm another link which have nothing to do with Chile ... pls let me know if I violate any link rules ... )

Thanks, that is what I'm looking for, appreciate the help.

Any other favorites out there?

I let the links slide because:

1. this is the topic at hand

2. you guys all have over 50 posts

3. I just don't care anymore. Guys with like 1 or 2 posts and obvious spammers, I'll still slap them down.

I think I have put sufficient spam scare crows around the forum to keep everyone else in line.

We have had cable in our house for over 2 years, and don't own a TV. All of our TV watching is done via bittorrent. I would like to watch movies, but no one has produced anything worth waisting the bandwidth on in years.

We use Azuerus bittorrent client, and mininova.org mostly for finding torrents. There are a lot of other torrent sites, just that one seems to have less bad torrents.

I would watch them on cable TV like everyone else, accept that half the shows they broadcast in Chile on cable are weeks if not months behind what is being broadcast in the States. If the industry does not want the world using bittorrent, BROADCAST YOUR SHOWS IN TIMELY MANNER OUTSIDE THE STATES!!!!!!!!!

Yes, that's the thing with cable here. The few favorite programs we would like to watch are generally last season's reruns. I wouldn't be looking if they would broadcast something worthwhile. I just don't feel these corporations respond to public demand as much as they tell us what they think we want.

I do like the amusing subtitles in spanish, though.

Thanks for more websites to try-a new hobby for me.

This is what I don't get. Say a really popular show is just broadcast in the States. On the torrents they have something like 10,000 leachers, and 5,000 seeds within mins of broadcasting.

There is an obvious demand to distribute tv shows and other media through bittorrent. Get a clue, and start making money off of it by adding commercials at the start and end of the torrents, or even in the middle.

I would put up with a few commercials if say the companies offered a fat commercial network to seed the torrents. I like the new one I have seen where a big company comes in and sponsors the whole show as commercial free with a little plug at the start and finish of the show. That would work perfectly for bit torrent internet distribution.

By the way, I don't feel all that bad because I DO PAY FOR MY CABLE. I just don't watch it the way they want me to watch it (6 months late). What I am doing is no different technically or legally than owning a Tivo.

Agreed. I have used it for music. I download what I've already paid copyrights literally over and over. Yes, starting with records...yet mostly I listen to the same old stuff with the convenience of the computer.

I also listen to NPR.org with my lunch. I will watch c-span say durring an important congressional hearing or something. I find sites like CNN and BBC to be too heavy with garbage advertising, but once in a while I will listen or watch their feeds.

There are also the pay for options like on iTunes where you can buy a season pass to a show and download all the previous episodes and each new one as it is released. I did this for one program when I finished watching the show's dubbed second season here in Chile and could not wait for the third season which was almost already over in the States.

The series in question was worth paying the modest price being already archived in a properly compressed, high quality, tagged, commercial-free format because of the constant links and easter eggs hidden in the story line.

My favorite emule site for TV series is tvunderground.org.ru. Torrents can be faster for the latest shows (check out isohunt.com for fresh releases) but emule is better for "back of catalog" shows if you want to catch up with a show you missed when it got started.

It's funny how, 12 years or so after the internet broke through with the general public, supposedly global media companies still insist on selling a limited selection of outdated crap pretty much anywhere outside of the US. The DVD zone system is really insulting.

And don't get me started on how the media oligopoly got endless copyright extensions by repeatedly bribing Congress. These guys raped the intent of the Constitution. You end up with a system that pretty much amounts to fascism, i.e. the collusion and co-mingling of the state and corporations to the detriment of consumers/citizens. There's sour irony in being called a thief by that brand of thug. I'm as capitalist as they go and this stuff makes me sick. But then, when a company such as Disney claims copyright on fairy tales written in Europe hundreds of years ago, what are you gonna expect...

If you think this rant was bad, wait until we talk about how the US Supreme Court rubber-stamped fascism through their Kelo v. City of New London eminent domain ruling. Well not quite rubber stamping since it was a 5-4 decision, but still, I thought if there was a country that took property rights to heart, it was the US of A... (OK, enough off-topic drifting already.)