"This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon." -- Ronald Reagan, "People" magazine, December 26, 1985
"This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon." -- Ronald Reagan, "People" magazine, December 26, 1985
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You want us to discuss piracy? What do you want to know? My current d/l speed is 700Kbytes/s. My hard drive is full. So no piracy for the time being...
Is that OK? :>
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Though there's nothing new about this subject, I thought a change of scenery would be nice..
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You need some leeting up: Seedbox, RSS, rsync, auto-unrar, NAS, PopcornHour.
Doesn't help your lack of disk space but it's nearly video-on-demand.
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Sounds like fun. However, I don't do video-on-demand. I'm usually happy to d/l what I want to watch the next day from my fave site. Doctor Who is a fave of mine, when it's on, and not much "popular" stuff "does it" for me.
Oh, and bandwidth is a costly commodity for me at the moment, so I like to keep what i download. I'm currently working on the laborious task of making backups of my external IDE drive (350Gb, Star Trek, X-Files) and machine's internal drive so I can d/l more.
What's this NAS? I know, I coul
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We're using FreeNAS [freenas.org] as our disk storage and have a couple of PopcornHour boxes [popcornhour.com] which stream from the NAS to the TVs. They play virtually everything up to 1080p.
When I said 'video on demand', I meant the stuff that is regex'd out of the RSS feeds. Doctor Who (I'm a fan as well), Game of Thrones, Mythbusters, Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated (for the 5 year old), etc.
I have a cronjob that watches a local directory and one on Dropbox for