[olug] myth + COX firewire HD

[Kevin]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 04:17, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> At the end of the day, my end objective is to have myth serving up my High
>> definition, recorded content to upnp media clients, ps3 for example as well
>> as other myth frontends. Finding torrents for my favorite shows is a real
>> pita lately, and I just want to automate my content recording and possibly
>> transcode out the commercials! and I'll be damned if I spend any money on a
>> news feed just to grab video!

> Just for a har har har:
>
> Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, and eBay have all of the torrents I want burnt to
> DVD already.  Really convenient to go and spend just a few min to pick out
> what I want and walk out the door with it in an already archived commercial
> free high quality format.... or have it waiting on my desk at work....
>
> Granted, there's the pesky chore of having to rip the DVD to store'em on the
> HD for ease of playback.... but for me, the time it takes to find what I'm
> looking for as well as download and verify and hope it's of good quality...
> not to mention possible legal repercussions ... it's just cheaper (in just
> pure time spent alone) to amazon/ebay/walmart it.  In the hour or two it
> takes to do all of that... your hourly wage surely covers the 'retail'
> cost... and I'd rather much do something more constructive / useful with my
> time than web crawl / verify :)

They spend money for the right to give it to you. The studios behind
them don't give them to the stores, nor do they give them to you. I
don't have any problem with using torrents if getting it in the format
you want isn't strictly legal, but give something back to the studio
somehow. If not by ad viewing of the original broadcast, then by
dollars for the DVD even if you take it home and then torrent it.