Re: questions about downloading the episodes to disc

Elvis Gump wrote:
in article PSidnTsfx91TqDDZUSdV9g@xxxxxxx, Dawn at nospam@xxxxxxxxxx
on 7/6/06 11:09 AM:busted out this wacky shit:

I am trying to make a few discs with all of the episodes from season
2. I downloaded the episodes from Livewire and I have them on my
hardrive. Does anyone know iif I can save them to discs without
ruining the quality? I have the CD-R discs.

The AVI format that many of the torrents are in will play on stand
alone DVD players like he Philips 642 that can play the Xvid codec.

I've only run into a few things that I couldn't play in it like some
mpg2 encoded things here and there.

When you burn them using say Nero if you choose the size of the media
you wish to burn to it will double check that you can in fact get all
of what you want into the space available. Whether it's DVD±R, DVD+R
or DVD-R or CD-R you should choose to burn a "data" type disc to
perserve the format of the avi or mpg files that most torrents are
encoded in.

As to the legality of watching Doctor Who in this manner, us US fans
have little choice as we'd just have gotten around to seeing PotW if
we had waited for the BBC and Sci-Fi channel to pull their thumbs
outta their asses.

I hope like me all the fans over here still want all of these with the
commentaries and extras I hope the DVD box sets will have. I've been
so busy I need to see if in fact season one is available yet.

Has anyone gotten the box set of CE's season yet? What are the extras
like?

Regarding legality:

Just my opinion, but I think the current situation, driven by an outdated
broadcasting paradigm, is farcical. I make a living off digital content (my
shitty comics) myself, and as such am very much in favour of copyright and
digital rights ownership (tho I oppose DRM schemes as currently
suggested/imposed) but the current situation is *driving* people to
"piracy". I'm in the UK; and if the net is alive with people talking about
the latest exciting episode of [some american TV show I like], I'll be
damned if I'm waiting a year or two until some brit TV company bothers to
show it. I want to see it at the same time as the US audience (or as close
as possible) and that's not an unreasonable desire on the part of a
consumer.

As a general rule, i believe that any attempt to manipulate consumers is
doomed and well just plain wrong- another example being the lunacy of
regional DVD encoding. I was also reading an article a few days ago about
e-books- the long-held dream of a convenient electronic book you can carry
around, with electronic paper, and was saddened to read that the major
publishers are trying to impose absurd DRM constrictions (books that delete
themselves after a month or can only be read so many times and so on). And
come to that, one of my favourites- a very early VCR called Cartrivision had
special tapes for rental that *could not be rewound* so that you could only
watch it once!

Anyway- where I think we're heading is the end of broadcast TV, period. It's
lasted a long while for a technology (most only have a lifespan of decades)
and it's simply too limited- viewers are at the mercy of broadcasters'
whims. What surely *has* to replace it is digital delivery on demand- a new
episode of DW is released and anybody, anywhere in the world, can just
download it and watch it instantly. Or a week, or a month later, as they
desire.

We've a way to go yet, the usual foot-dragging of vested interests who don't
want to embrace the new; plus, there's a big problem coming up with woeful
under-investment in network bandwidth. Broadband speeds are rushing upwards,
while nobody's similarly upgrading the network infrastructure (my own ISP,
with whom I have a 2Mb ADSL unlimited connection, have now launched 8Mb with
a 50GB cap, which is absurd (about half an hour a day!) because the UK
doesn't seem to have installed any more bandwidth since about the year 2000,
certainly not enough to service all the connections properly).

Anyway, i think it's silly to criticise people for downloading a show
rather than wait a year to see it. This is going to have to change (and I
think that'll mean the end of the antiquated serial broadcast paradigm).

As to Doctor Who- I don't think anyone should feel guilty. One of Britain's
greatest absurdities is our State television service, paid for by a poll
tax. But what the hey, everybody else- feel free to watch the programmes.
We've already paid for them. As a matter of natural justice, the BBC has no
moral right to exert any kind of control over programmes which, by the
nature of their funding, surely "belong to the people".

Ian

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