Howdy y'all.
I'm sure many of you have welcomed the internet due to it's time shifting capabilities.
What?
The ability to be in more places at once.
C'mon now, everyone knows time travel is impossible.
Well, if you watch television, and can't be home when your favorite shows are on or if you have favorite shows that are broadcast simultaneously, my new friend
Ted can help you out.
Ted is short for "television episode downloader".
Ted goes out and searches for torrents from your favorite television shows and passes those torrents off to your
bittorrent client.
Ted is not a bittorrent client, but more of a torrent bird dog.
Ted is a java app, so it runs on all platforms (OS X, linux, bsd, Solaris, BeOS, Amiga, some cell phones and even windows).
It has many settings, and it won't take you long to figure out what settings work best for you.
There is a list of programs that comes with
Ted, and the list is continually changing, because
Ted is an open source app, and the community that supports it adds new shows and prunes old one regularly. If
Ted doesn't have your favorite show, you can easily add it. I watch some rather esoteric foreign television shows and after I added them,
Ted finds them easily.
Here, you can see the list area on the left side, and the review of the selected program on the right side.
Ted gets all it's info from
TV (dot) com
In the next shot, we see
Ted checking the various torrent sites for a torrent matching your criteria. Some of these criteria are "number of seeders", "filetype", "compressed files" (some sorry bastidges like to slip trojans and other nasties inside zip or rar files, so my
Ted was told not to download any torrents that are associated with those types of file. You can tell your
Ted the same.)
Isn't this illegal?!? You're on your way to jail, sonny!
It's no more illegal than using a Tivo or other DVR (or VCR, for you old school folk) to save and watch your shows when you have time.
Ted has saved me a lot of time spent hunting tv torrents. If you do your TV watching via the internet,
Ted can save you time, too.
P.S. This isn't a copyrighted movie or music download aid - downloading copyrighted movies or music is considered illegal and you shouldn't do it.
Ted just grabs television torrents.
-------Seems cool. I just need to hook up a machine to my TV now
