Babylon 5

[Zippy]

I've had the DVDs for years. The kids have started watching it now. Harlen Ellison was a creative consultant for it, so it tended more to proper sci-fi than the cowboys and indians in space that Star Trek was.

I thought Crusade was even better than B5. More interesting characters, with bad attitudes.

Crusade comes with the set. Shame it never really had a chance to get going.

[TimberWolf]

KA = KickAss

I also use "isohunt".
I usually allow a couple of hours to download something, if it's not 100% I delete it and try somewhere else.

I look for TV shows that are currently on in the USA like Entourage, they download in about 10 mins. as there are so many seeds. If there are not more than 10 seeds I would not bother it may never download 100%.

For movies you should wait for about 1-2 months after release to get a good copy.

I recently got some links for file share sites, I will have a look see if they are any better than the torrent sites.

Ah, I'm cooking on gas now, on isohunt.

[NotAllThere]

TNT canned it because the people watching it didn't watch any other TNT shows. And people who did watch the other TNT shows didn't watch B5 and its spinoffs. Then, alledgely, they set a high price so that other networks couldn't buy it off them, in case it was successful.

[alreadypacked]

Started to download B5 last night, looks like it will take 3 days

[northernladuk]

Started to download B5 last night, looks like it will take 3 days

Until it gets to about 92% and no one on the seed list actually has the completed file so it will stop and never move forever

[alreadypacked]

Until it gets to about 92% and no one on the seed list actually has the completed file so it will stop and never move forever

you forgot to say, HTH

I know, I am looking at some other file share sites at the weekend.

[Spacecadet]

Until it gets to about 92% and no one on the seed list actually has the completed file so it will stop and never move forever

seeders by definition have the complete file to share

Where there are a lot more leechers than seeders you may not be connected directly to a seeder. Its sometimes worthwhile going through the peer list and kicking off a few connections to allow your torrent client to connect to someone with a better connection or more complete file.

Also the seeders (if there are only a very small number) might have very low upload limits which will also slow down the last part of the download.

[Platypus]

Until it gets to about 92% and no one on the seed list actually has the completed file

I thought that a seed had the whole file by definition?

Anyway, I've successfully downloaded huge files over many days with few seeds. You may find some seeds only come on-line in the evenings / at weekends, so it's often worth sticking with it.

[Pogle]

ooh I LOVED Bab 5.
It is several million times better than any of the modern Star Trek spin off's
And it had Billy Mumy (Lost in Space) and Walter Konig in It.

[Platypus]

ooh I LOVED Bab 5.
It is several million times better than any of the modern Star Trek spin off's
And it had Billy Mumy (Lost in Space) and Walter Konig in It.

Well I too bought the box set, 2 weeks ago now. It's out of the cellophane but I haven't made a start. All the positive comments in this thread about B5 have encouraged me to give it a go sooner rather than later.

(I've only ever seen a few clips, never a whole episode!).