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- EGOvoruhk, on 07/27/2008, -0/+33So that you can watch stuff for free?
- connieLingus, on 07/27/2008, -1/+30take that comcast.
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+23That's how torrents work... You download, you upload.
- lexbi, on 07/26/2008, -9/+26Don't know if this is going to work that well. You have to be lucky to get a great speed on eztv torrents.
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+16What are you talking about. I always get great speeds.
- AngelBunny, on 07/27/2008, -1/+14if this pans out well it could end up possibly being a server competition against cable TV subscriptions.
imagine tv stations embracing this and streaming the whole channel, not just on demand like bit torrent is, and then another company picking it up and making a tivo like box that plays the channels over the net.
if that happened cable tv would be dead. - connieLingus, on 07/27/2008, -0/+12well just like bt your download speed will be roughly proportional to how popular the show and/or the service is...it should be pretty easy to get the 100-150kbps speed needed for a decent picture as long as enough people start using the service.
- kruykaze, on 07/27/2008, -0/+12Integration with XBMC would be sweet!
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -3/+13Why do humans sound like bigfoot whenever a slow motion disaster happens?
- Draculecom, on 07/27/2008, -0/+10Does this mean I can dump my DirecTV and NOT be forced to have 100 religious fruitcake channels?
- Deadpixel1221, on 07/27/2008, -0/+8I don't know what the ***** that has to do with this discussion, but i can't.. resist.. digging.. you.. up.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8There may be some advantage because of the fact that people with very fast connections that download a show in 10 minutes or whatever will automatically keep seeding until it is done playing. You have a lot of extra high-bandwidth seeds right there.
- Furkle, on 07/27/2008, -1/+8Because believe it or not, there are countries on this planet other than the states.
- zephyrxero, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5How about so that small companies and even single users that don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest in bandwidth and servers can actually have a shot at competing against the already existing mega-corp providers?
- sadler121, on 07/27/2008, -0/+5and this is why Time Warner and Comcast want to impose hard caps on how much you can download. They have seen this coming for a while, and you better believe they will do anything to protect their precious revenue stream.
- synctext, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4The Vuze technology is a bit different, it does not work for any torrent.
They use large seeders to boost download speeds of only their own torrents and thus enable On-Demand. They also force you to make an account on their website to use the friends features in Vuze, not P2P-ish.
The SwarmPlayer uses the Give-to-Get protocol, and zero-server P2P: http://www.tribler.org/4thGenerationP2P - TBagwell, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4I've been waiting for someone to implement this for a long time now. exciting.
- Crana, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4This would work really well on a private tracker.
- Zaeth, on 07/27/2008, -0/+4hell yeah!
- MrColdheart, on 07/27/2008, -1/+4THE RIAA WILL NOT LIKE HIS ONE BIT
- Me0wmix, on 07/27/2008, -1/+4Any good pr0nz compatible?
- Laminarcissus, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3Even weirder is that when a slow-motion disaster happens to Bigfoot, he sounds like your Mom.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+3Lots of people download tv shows to watch... on their tv. Spend 25$ on a cable, connect my computer to my tv and watch it in comfort on the couch. The standard 350mb per show resolution of 624 × 352 is near dvd quality. It upscales decently to a small HDTV and more than enough for an SDTV or EDTV.
- TheHayze, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3Even more reason why certain studios, and labels should stop saying p2p/torrents kill the biz. They work to their advantage if they actually bother to use such a great content delivery system. Easier, and faster for users to see your content? More business/more money/happier folks.
- Krynn, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Things such as swarm p2p live streams already exist.
tvants is one and there are others as well - izikdela, on 07/27/2008, -3/+5...streaming "The Dark Knight" as I type this :D.
Great work!
If anyone else wants to, just download and install the program "SwarmPlayer" here:
http://trial.p2p-next.org/
Right now it's Windows and Linux only; The site says a Mac version is due next week.
If you want to stream a movie just find the torrent for a movie at isohunt or any other torrent site
and rename the extension from .torrent to .tstream
then, simply open up the new .tstream file.
It works great, but you just have to be patient for it to prebuffer in the beginning.
The Dark Knight: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/47685807/The+da ... - DaHuuuuuudge, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Torrents instead of P2P?
...right... - inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2You really rather nothing?
- Deadpixel1221, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3Then how are you going to watch FSMTV?
- Draculecom, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3Thanks for the ethics lesson, douchebag. I guess you're a studio exec, huh? Or a PA who's brown-nosing for a promotion. Gonna bounce into the office on Monday morning to announce that you've discovered the next wave of piracy? Genie's out of the bottle, kid. Us nefarious types won't be dictated to by your bottom-line values.
- Deadpixel1221, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3Tool.
- 3Den, on 07/27/2008, -0/+2Well. taking out the "random chunk" part of hte bittorrent protocol is all that's really necessary here to let you stream... but that will cut down on the effectivenes, and increase reliance on seeders.
- inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+3Take your ethics and GTFO.
- zephyrxero, on 07/27/2008, -1/+2Just like regular bit torrent, this technology can be used for both legal and illegal content, the choice is up to the user. Just think about how if we didn't have bit torrent, many linux distros would never be able to afford the bandwidth they need to transfer all their installer ISOs. The same could in the future be true for small start-up media providers, just think about if someone like Revision3 could use this to stream a full fledged 24-hour tv station to you.
- fatas, on 07/27/2008, -2/+3***** sweet if they can get this to work for Live Streams it would be great.
- Corrosionx, on 08/05/2008, -0/+1I'm watching Jurassic Fight Club - Cannibal Dinosaurs right now, I only waited for it to start for like 2-3 minutes then it was good to go. GREAT STUFF
- karaokekidd, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1I use streaming on consoles like ps3/wii all the time. I wonder if there is a way to make this compatible? Maybe a server side converter to make it display in flash.
- synctext, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1With 2
- TheJalu, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1I tried it...It was amazing...
- Scottievm, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1Torrent sites have been thinking of doing this for years.
- ivand67, on 07/27/2008, -1/+2yep... SD ***** sucks...
- cg0def, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1you should probably try the player before commenting. It prebuffers much like any other web media player so the connection speed is a nonissue. If you have a slow connection you get to start watching the show faster so the technology still works.
- stoanhart, on 07/27/2008, -1/+2Exactly.
Say The Pirate Bay started to host a live stream of most channels on TV. TPB has become a sort of defacto-standard, almost official source for torrents anyways. I'm sure they would have thousands of viewers on each channel at any given time, and if it worked well, word would spread. - SantaBJ, on 07/28/2008, -0/+1Worked like a charm on my 7.5mbps symmetric :)
Then again, this was before the test went public..haven't tried later ^^ - Epik, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Oh my god.
... crap, I was excited there for a bit. But it's now buffering again... meh. And now it's working! Real time w/o downloading, nice. - inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1
This is something that media giants might be able to get on board with. - fatas, on 07/27/2008, -1/+1The problem with that is you still need to get their client.
Unlike BT where you can use any client. - MissPenguin, on 10/01/2008, -0/+0And if cable dies. Where are we gonna get that quality content we all love so much? If cable dies, so does the TV-torrent scene, I'm sorry to say.
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