Bournville, March 6th
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I might be putting 2 + 2 together and coming up with 20 but has anyone else noticed the torrents for certain American TV programs that are usually broadcast on Sky in the UK are massively oversubscribed at the moment, and when you do find one that’ll let you join it fair zooms down the pipe?
Could it be that customers of Virgin Media, who let’s not forget used to be NTL / Telewest, a company known for their broadband as much as their TV, are getting their Lost / 24 / Battlestar / etc fixes through other means? And could it be that when this squabble between Branson and Murdoch is over they’ll be quite happy sticking with a system that doesn’t have adverts and is a significant number of weeks ahead?
Sky’s figures for 24 are down 175,000 while Lost is down 96,000 (via). I wonder if they’ll come back?
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Went to see Hot Fuzz last night – first time I’d been to the cinema in ages come to think of it. Very entertaining though didn’t quite have the impact of Shaun of the Dead. Recommended, though director Edgar Wright really needs to calm down on his multi-fast-jump-cuts. There’s barely a shot in there that’s over half a second long.
I did note that seeder numbers where massively higher than normal. God bless whoever it was who ripped Stargate overnight and had it up ready this morning :)
That’s odd about the jump cuts in Hot Fuzz. I’m normally hyper-critical of that kind of thing but didn’t have a problem with it here. And I did like the deliberate OTT use of it applied to filling out paperwork and such.
It’s not so much that it bothered me in the film, just that he’s going to have to get a new trick now – this one’s going to get rather played out methinks.
The train journey did bother me a little. I’ll have to see it again to be sure about this though. Which shouldn’t be a problem – I want to see it again!
That’s the best news I’ve read all day. I’m neither a Virgin or a Sky customer… I just hate Murdoch.
Hot Fuzz was enjoyable up until the last twenty minutes or so, when it began to hurt my ears.
Just to put some numbers on this, the torrent I’m currently on for Battlestar has 20,000 people in the swarm. And that’s not the only one.