Originally posted by: 1anakin
I'm sorry for being such a newb, but which file am I suppoed to download for the NTSC version, the newest version says REPACK, is that any better than the pervious one?
The REPACK is indeed the latest, but as Ady has said, only a few very minor tweaks were made. This release is really for the people with HD-DVD (esp. Toshiba) players who couldn't get the previous NTSC version to work.
If you're just watching this on your DVD player or pc, the regular NTSC should be fine.
Originally posted by: C3PX
Because through torrents you are downloading it through a web of other people's computers. You are limited not only by your own download speed, but by the uploads speeds of everyone you are pulling off of, also at the same time you are uploading bits of the files you have already downloaded for other users. With usenet the file is there on the internet and you can pull it down just about as fast as your download speed can manage.
In other words, torrents are peer-to-peer, which has always been a slow way to go. Somebody with usenet could get SW Revisited in maybe a little over an hour, while you have some people here who have been downloading it off the torrent since the beginning of this week and still are only about halfway done.
I'm sorry for being such a newb, but which file am I suppoed to download for the NTSC version, the newest version says REPACK, is that any better than the pervious one?
The REPACK is indeed the latest, but as Ady has said, only a few very minor tweaks were made. This release is really for the people with HD-DVD (esp. Toshiba) players who couldn't get the previous NTSC version to work.
If you're just watching this on your DVD player or pc, the regular NTSC should be fine.
Originally posted by: C3PX
Because through torrents you are downloading it through a web of other people's computers. You are limited not only by your own download speed, but by the uploads speeds of everyone you are pulling off of, also at the same time you are uploading bits of the files you have already downloaded for other users. With usenet the file is there on the internet and you can pull it down just about as fast as your download speed can manage.
In other words, torrents are peer-to-peer, which has always been a slow way to go. Somebody with usenet could get SW Revisited in maybe a little over an hour, while you have some people here who have been downloading it off the torrent since the beginning of this week and still are only about halfway done.
I'll continue the "news groups vs. torrents" war here by saying the primary reason I went with torrent was because I don't want to pay for a premium news reader account so I can get the "good" access. I also didn't want to mess around with par files (I already did that with the matrix squared, which I actually downloaded piece by piece off of rapidshare using a free account, yes, it took me nearly a month, that was a nightmare!). According to the gurus here it takes about a half an hour to learn how to use USENET (and you need more than the free account). I was already familiar with utorrent.
Was I just lucky that it was "so fast"? I don't think so, because there should be more people seeding the ntsc DVD5 now than when I started.
The thing is, I started downloading it with utorrent almost as soon as it was put up, and while only ONE person was seeding it (and a ton of leechers), I was able to get the whole thing in 12 hours flat (it said originally 21+ hours, but it kept going down). Burned the thing and was watching it just over 10 mins later. I have cable in case you're wondering, nothing special.
These horror stories about torrents being "too slow" are overblown. You're downloading a 4.37 gig file, what do you expect?
Just look at all the hassle people have had for pages and pages (back in the early 200's) who hadn't used USEnet before, and the missing/incomplete files and so forth.
Of course a lot of the problems people were having also had to do with the PAL version or trying to get it to work on their HD-DVD players, but whatever. Not everyone has had that kinda "luck."
As I see it, the only real difference between the news groupies and the torrenters, is that the news group users had access to it about 2 days sooner (the ones who could get it to work anyway). Now that they're both out, what's the point? But do what you like.