Wednesday, October 10, 2007

NZBPlayer

I urge anyone with a faster than 1.5mb broadband connection to get themselves a usenet subscription and check out NZBPlayer. This program is a real beauty and really leaves bittorrent for dead for movie and tv content. As most scene releases are posted to the newsgroups NZBPlayer is just an ideal way to stream them down to your PC. NZB files are also easy find (the built in search is very functional) with there are a number of search engines available. On a standard 8mb adsl connection most NZB's start within 30 seconds (the start time is determined by the size of the individual rars.) which is great for the x254 720p stuff. I also like ninan for grabbing non video content or formats not supported by NZBPlayer.

This program really changed my TV viewing habits. It gives you a lot of freedom as you don't have to schedule time to download the day's torrents or fool around with RSS based auto-torrent loaders. It evens works a treat over NextG on the train!

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