Comments on: A League of Our Own

By: Al

Al — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:10:54 +0000

Beefields Wrote:

One thing, Paul, you mentioned TV. I wonder if it will ever be possible to use graboid in connection with a television, maybe with a media server interface? I understand tivo is doing that in conjunction with several media websites or services such as the Amazon service which allows one to download movies, and others, but only with their own tivo boxes.

Comment by Beefields — September 26, 2007 @ 9:27 am

I’ve been sending my Graboid media to my TV via an old Buffalo Linktheater at 1080i. These have been selling lately for less than $100.

Well worth it , IMO.

By: dano

dano — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:06:48 +0000

I have my laptop connected to my 35″ tv with an s-video cable and it works great!

By: Beefields

Beefields — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:27:29 +0000

By: Beefields

Beefields — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:08:57 +0000

I woud visit the competing sites for the same reason I’d visit any other thing I was not familiar with, curiousity. Also maybe the other sites would have all of the information on a show in the same place, which would be convenient. I wish my friend had told me about graboid earlier!

By: Poostain

Poostain — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:46:39 +0000

Hey Jenny, if you discovered a file that vista said had a virus, it’s best to give the name of the file you downloaded so that it can be looked into.

But chances are it was not a virus, but instead vista just freaking out over a legitimate file that it believes to be suspicious.

And as for graboid charging you for double the bandwidth, it is possible that this is user error. I have unlimited usage, but a couple of times I have clicked to download a movie and it does not show in the download que so I click it again and it starts downloading. But then when I go into my archiver I see that two seperate versions of the same movie were downloaded. So in the future to fix this you can try going to /graboid/tools/nntp/archiver/graboid temp. And then try clearing out the folders in there before trying to click the download button again, and that should keep it from downloading twice.

I hope this info helps.

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:05:05 +0000

Graboid is very cool but a few small issues are at hand here…2 movies (the same ones) said they were in english and turned out to be in french:( …another movie had a virus that vista did not like..used up 4 1/2 gb’s. 2 movies I downloaded took twice the bandwidth they were supposed too, and another was a bootleg crap version using again alot of bandwidth.
I was very excited about Graboid for the simple fact that it was easy and the choice of movies was awesome.I actually bought more bandwidth early I was having so much fun with Graboid, but I am not sure I will buy anymore until a few issues are cleared up. Don’t get me wrong I really appreciate the work you all put into making this work, but for paying customers there should be a refund for bad downloads, especially the language screw ups, and double bandwidth downloads, i can understand my windows box not liking a infected file, Vista is a bit weird to me anyway, and seems very touchy. Thanks for hearing me out guys and good luck!

By: trish

trish — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:49:04 +0000

Even though I am experienceing some issues with Graboid , I must say that through my surfing I have yet to come across anything like Graboid, its easy to use the choices of movies and tv shows are outstanding , the quality is superb ,yes it has its moments But I AM Hooked!! Keep up the great work

By: Poostain

Poostain — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:50:29 +0000

When can we expect the latest version of graboid to be available?

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:07:33 +0000

On my search for a better way to watch and download movies I have seen that site. I like the Graboid “no hassle” site sooo much better. Thank you.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:26:19 +0000

What’s wrong with being reliant on one company? Mac users don’t seem to have a problem with it.

And as far as reliability goes, Graboid is way better than any of the other sites. You might try out one link that works at first, but by the time you get around to watching it, you’re sitting with your bowl of popcorn staring at a “page not found” message.

That scenario is far less likely to happen with Graboid. Also, we’re continually working on ways to improve the reliability of the content (the other sites just sit back, let their auto-leeching scripts run, and collect ad revenue).

Lastly, we are working towards a cross-platform compatible version of Graboid. Stay tuned — we are getting closer to this goal!

Paul.