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But sometime this year I will probably pick up at least a 200GB

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

Well that's not what I want. I want old stuff.

I want old TV shows, movies, obscure ones like some of the really corny scifi. All I have to have is decent enough quality to blow it up to my 36" screen and I will be happy. Even some of the old commercials for nostalgia's sake.

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But sometime this year I will probably pick up at least a 200GB. Then I can just clone to it and then [heaven forbid] finally defrag, because I actually don't have the freespace to do it right now.

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

Every place has "the hottest new movies", the "hottest new albums, (or videos) " and so forth. My buddy can get new movies, in some cases before they hit the theaters.

Well that's not what I want. I want old stuff. I already have a pretty good collection and will have more once this HD issue is cleared up. I actually did get another eighty to throw in there but they just won't work at the same time. But sometime this year I will probably pick up at least a 200GB. Then I can just clone to it and then [heaven forbid] finally defrag, because I actually don't have the freespace to do it right now.

At any rate, I want old TV shows, movies, obscure ones like some of the really corny scifi. All I have to have is decent enough quality to blow it up to my 36" screen and I will be happy. Even some of the old commercials for nostalgia's sake.

Now from what I've read, and correct me if I am wrong, these P2P programs whether Bearshare or Undernet or whatever, still access some kind of gnutella network. Or are there different networks ?

Problem with me is I don't like the new stuff.  I don't like the camera work in the best of scenarios and I find the effects to be too much. I can't think of a remake I ever liked, except for a few songs. Remade TV shows and movies are terrible IMO. What's more, sometimes I go searching for an old movie, only to find out I downloaded the (ugh) remake.

What's more is I want the file to do with as I please, not streaming. I want to be able to transfer it to another PC on the network or burn it to DVDROM, maybe even make an actual playable DVD from it.

I know you can't always get what you want, but if there is such a place I would like to know about it.

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I like the older stuff, too. What I can't stand is switching from one POV to another every half-second. I can't describe what I mean right now; I can't think of a good example. But it's really fucking irritating. It's a cliche-gimmick for lazy, unimaginative directors who all went to the same classes at UCLA.  The ones with the 2.3 GPA.

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Just buy them. Amazon.com carries pretty much everything.

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Panda, I saw a documentary on the making of the original Twilight Zone series. It was fascinating. The first episode Galaxy Man, I think was such a low budget producers would be drooling on their shoes today. The alien was in a wetsuit with oil and tranny grease poured all over it.

During at least the first season, they said the staff had to come up with something new each and every week because they had no episodes premade and stored up.

An interesting irony if y'all like irony. It seems that lack of color TV actually OPENED up a dimension for them when it came to special effects. The docu described how many of them were done with simple household items.

Seems like that type of creativity has largely been lost.

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I'll have to check out those options, thanks all.

HK, I know what you mean, it is hard to put one's finger on it. Sometimes is seems like they want the piece to look like it was filmed by an amateur. Something like that.

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