Posted: April 11, 2000 at 06:28:09: by Guybrush
: I doubt there will be any legal way to download episodes of broadcast television for years to come. Some people do capture entire episodes and post them to the Internet, but I don't know where to find them.: Those of you who'd like to see examples of Internet Television, however, should take a look at my InternetTV page. You need speakers and RealPlayer (a shareware program you can download) G2 to view them, but they'll run on your PCs. : Click on the link below for more info. The page is a bit dated and the graphics are slow to load. You can stop the page loading after a few seconds and view the links and descriptions without getting all the graphics. : When I can, I'll be updating the page (but that goes for almost everything on Xenite.Org).
Again I'm not talking about INTERNET TV I'm talkin about downloading the shows. Internet TV is atrocious running with ASF files at about 10-15FPS and choppy sound and bad resolution. I've watched full screen 30 FPS south park episodes on the computer, it's just a matter of downloading them. I don't see how it's illegal as it's just like a VHS tape, and I foresee this as part of the internet broadband future - cable TV and internet making a partnership and then you can watch virtually any episode of any TV show that cares to let you watch any episode (at any time). Someone would have to take hte time to record the movies and upload them fully (not ASF files something with better compression like mpegs at 30 fps) and pick a decent resolution and upload it to a fast server. But, as I said before, someone would have to have incentive - like a large fanbase, otherwise they wouldn't want to upload it.
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