[DudeBoyz]

I didn't realize that they were considering using the original cast.

I thought the whole reason they were shutting down SG-1 was due to the cost of the contracts for the main cast?

[MrSpock2002]

Originally Posted by DudeBoyz

I didn't realize that they were considering using the original cast.

I thought the whole reason they were shutting down SG-1 was due to the cost of the contracts for the main cast?

They are considering using a couple of the original sg1 cast. And Anderson want's to possably exec produce it.

They arnt shutting SG- 1 down due to cost, because the cast members are already in a signed contract for season 11. So people are saying that since they want to stop at season 10, they are using the contracts already signed to do the 2 movies due out the end of this year.

[Judas]

Sci-fi channel is cutting down the budget is what i understood, it's not they don't have enough money (hell they are raking in enough to make an episode that makes your standard movies budgets look dinky in comparison)

I'm not sure if the contracts would work that way, but then again i haven't seen them. You'd figure it would stipulate that it would be series, and not movies, enless of course they do it as a release to theaters mini series?

[MrSpock2002]

Originally Posted by Judas

Sci-fi channel is cutting down the budget is what i understood, it's not they don't have enough money (hell they are raking in enough to make an episode that makes your standard movies budgets look dinky in comparison)

I'm not sure if the contracts would work that way, but then again i haven't seen them. You'd figure it would stipulate that it would be series, and not movies, enless of course they do it as a release to theaters mini series?

Well suposedly it's already been confirmed it will be made direct to dvd, with scifi possably airing them on tv. Who knows.

I remember the Save Enterprise campaign. There were massive rumors. Few ended up being true. People figured since they saved the original series, and enterprise for a season 3 by massive campaigns that it would work for a season 5. Fox made a massive mistake cancelling Enterprise when they did. It had gotten excellent with the Expanse Arc, and season 4 is when it took off. You'd think they'd have learned, because just about every Star Trek series it only took off after about season 3. They even admited that the rating had kept getting stronger and stronger. Hell saveenterprise.com raised just over 3 million usd. Nasa being a big contributer with 1.2 million. But when each episode budget being roughly 1 to 1.4 million I guess 3 million wasnt that big of a deal in their eyes, but you'd still think that they would have realised for people raising that kind of money it had fans.

SciFi's shows BSG, and Stargate has roughly a million dollar budget per episode. Paramount estimated each episode of Voyager, and DS9 to have a episode budget of roughly 2 million each. I just cant get over these networks having shows rivaling the budgets of movies, and cancelling them right away. It's pissing me off.

[MrSpock2002]

Heres a treat for you SG fans. This is by far my favorite wp.

[mike2h]

Originally Posted by MrSpock2002

Hell yeah! Luckaly though, MGM said that a third series is definate. Who knows if they will let SciFi do it or not. The people in vancouver who do the show (exec producers, etc) say that working on 2 shows at one time works out best for them. So I suspect that SciFi might just be doing the third series. I resent SciFi network, they keep canceling excellent shows. That or not taking on shows, like Firefly, or Enterprise.

But Firefly is another hot topic for me heh. Fox is freakin retarded for canceling that show. And I think they know it was a mistake, they just don't have the balls to admit it.

even tho i have the whole firefly series & the movie on dvd they r now broadcating it in hd on ..uhd.. i believe. anyway it is totally awsome!! almost like watching it for 1st time. after babylon5 it is my 2nd fav scifi show.
i agree with your assesment of fox, they screwed the pooch & know it. chickenshits.

[DudeBoyz]

Originally Posted by MrSpock2002

Heres a treat for you SG fans. This is by far my favorite wp.

Nice... Thanks

[DudeBoyz]

Hey - you mentioned HD.

What specific resolution do they broadcast HD at?

I mean, HD could mean 480p, 720p, 1080i or 1080p, right?

[Robert McClelland]

When new season starts I'm wondering on Friday in Feb?

[The_Neon_Cowboy]

i like it, but i'm not obcessed, I found it stage when they replaced out some of the main people to the guy and gal from farscape. I was like WTF!

[DudeBoyz]

Originally Posted by Robert McClelland

When new season starts I'm wondering on Friday in Feb?

They started airing it up in Canada. Eps 11 and 12 are out.

[Judas]

i keep missing the thursday night broadcast of the new Star Gate SG1 and it's driving me nutz....

[DudeBoyz]

You can find 'em on Bit Torrent, I believe. If you are already paying for the satellite or cable, would seem perfectly reasonable to be able to download and watch 'em.

[Judas]

Actually no, that's no an option.

I may have steller internet speeds, but that is one thing i cannot do thus yet. And i'm not willing to sacrifice my internet abilities for something that i could just wait and watch on tv.

Bittorrent + my interconnection = many people going nutz on my connection (and adjusting the upload rate doesn't help really at all, just makes things slow down)

I ran bit torrent for all of 1 hour and had uploaded nearly 50 times more information then i had download.

Hell i had download 5mb of a file, and uploaded of that SAME file nearly 50mb within the first few minutes. Bittorrent is freaking sweet, just damn shitty for anyone with a cap limit on there total bandwidth use. (i'm able to push the limit occasionally, but bittorrent will DESTROY the limit within probably 6-8 hours on a popular file)

[DudeBoyz]

Originally Posted by Judas

Actually no, that's no an option.

I may have steller internet speeds, but that is one thing i cannot do thus yet. And i'm not willing to sacrifice my internet abilities for something that i could just wait and watch on tv.

Bittorrent + my interconnection = many people going nutz on my connection (and adjusting the upload rate doesn't help really at all, just makes things slow down)

I ran bit torrent for all of 1 hour and had uploaded nearly 50 times more information then i had download.

Hell i had download 5mb of a file, and uploaded of that SAME file nearly 50mb within the first few minutes. Bittorrent is freaking sweet, just damn shitty for anyone with a cap limit on there total bandwidth use. (i'm able to push the limit occasionally, but bittorrent will DESTROY the limit within probably 6-8 hours on a popular file)

I have DSL and use Utorrent 1.6. My speed is 1.5 / 384. I have Utorrent set to a port - say 51763 or something - I forward that port in my router to the IP of the machine running Utorrent (like 168.191.300.1 or something). That is absolutely KEY to getting the download speeds to work, at least for me.

In the router I set the Ext. Port at 51763 to 51763, enable the TCP and UDP protocols and check Enable.

I limit my upload speed to about 80% of bandwidth (as instructed) maybe less - I have it set to 30 for example.

Utorrent has a nice little "Speed Guide" wizard thing from the Options menu. That gives good results in most cases. It wasn't there in some earlier versions and was put there specifically to help folks get the most out of their connection without too much hassle.

Since TV shows are so intensely seeded in the say 1-14 days after the airing, your chances of getting a fast transfer should be excellent.

I think the theoretical max of my 1.5 gbit is like 196k. I often get in the 170-180k range. Can be downloaded in mere minutes. Worse case, I leave it over night and come back in the morning and clear all the completed downloads.

More and more networks are starting to stream their episodes directly from their site, which is great, but I still prefer having the file on my drive so I can watch it, fast forward it, etc. at my convenience, just like on a VCR or DVR.

If you would like to try again, just let me know - I will try to help if I can.

Good luck.

[Judas]

i've downloaded a single TV show and topped out @ around 6.7MB/s sustained on bitorrent. However my upload rate was greater then that. I've used a few different bittorent programs, including utorrent. Adjusting the upload rate, bottlenecking the upload rate in any way, results in a slower download rate, whatever i do, seems to result in my download rate ALWAYS being slower then my upload rate. Actually at one point, the torrent downloader (utorrent, and bitorrent both) reached a download rate that litterly killed ALL my other internet related programs, disconnecting my MSN messenger and even browsing the internet would result in page not found messages. My bitorrent download came to a crawl and my upload rate just keep pushing on. And all i was doing was downloading .... quite actually, AutoPatcher november full and december update. Got them, but i forgot to shutdown bitorrent or remove them from setting myself up as a seeder.

[DudeBoyz]

Originally Posted by Judas

i've downloaded a single TV show and topped out @ around 6.7MB/s sustained on bitorrent. However my upload rate was greater then that. I've used a few different bittorent programs, including utorrent. Adjusting the upload rate, bottlenecking the upload rate in any way, results in a slower download rate, whatever i do, seems to result in my download rate ALWAYS being slower then my upload rate. Actually at one point, the torrent downloader (utorrent, and bitorrent both) reached a download rate that litterly killed ALL my other internet related programs, disconnecting my MSN messenger and even browsing the internet would result in page not found messages. My bitorrent download came to a crawl and my upload rate just keep pushing on. And all i was doing was downloading .... quite actually, AutoPatcher november full and december update. Got them, but i forgot to shutdown bitorrent or remove them from setting myself up as a seeder.

This is very odd.

First of all, I'd like to ask if you have a router, like a Linksys BEFSR41 or are you doing a direct connect to the cable modem?

Second, I'd ask if you have tried Utorrent 1.6.

Third, I'd ask if you have a cable or DSL setup?

I'd really like to help if I can. I had a bunch of folks help me with it until I got it working, and now that I have it working right, it works incredibly well.

Feel free to PM me so we don't saturate the thread with off-topic stuff. I'll do what I can to help you get the most out of it.

Thanks

[Necrosis]

Hold it, they are already airing the new episodes (in Canada) that are coming on in March on Sci-Fi?

[DudeBoyz]

Originally Posted by Necrosis

Hold it, they are already airing the new episodes (in Canada) that are coming on in March on Sci-Fi?

Yessir.

[Necrosis]

Newsgroups here I come!!!

[MrSpock2002]

God damnit I'm pissed off. I love Atlantis. Atfirst I was iffy about it. I was really enjoying the cast, alot. McKay is awsome, etc. But the killed off Dr. Beckette. I litteraly teared up, they made it so freakin emotional. He was a good actor, and that will be sorely missed.

[DudeBoyz]

Originally Posted by MrSpock2002

God damnit I'm pissed off. I love Atlantis. Atfirst I was iffy about it. I was really enjoying the cast, alot. McKay is awsome, etc. But the killed off Dr. Beckette. I litteraly teared up, they made it so freakin emotional. He was a good actor, and that will be sorely missed.

I feel your pain.

Atlantis is up to ep 18 in canada now. I think there are 2 more to go this season, right?

They killed Beckett off in what was supposed to be Ep 14, but actually is chronologically, between eps 17 and 18 I think.

[MrSpock2002]

Originally Posted by DudeBoyz

I feel your pain.

Atlantis is up to ep 18 in canada now. I think there are 2 more to go this season, right?

They killed Beckett off in what was supposed to be Ep 14, but actually is chronologically, between eps 17 and 18 I think.

I noticed they have a site to help save his character. They also have a "save a turtle" program. Hrmm..