Thursday, April 22, 2004

What a day!

Star Trek: Enterprise returns today after a six week hiatus. Why they do this no-one seems to know, but there you go.

Now usually, Enterprise episodes are available for download 24 hours before they're shown on TV because a nice crew of people intercept the satellite broadcast UPN sends to its affiliate stations in the States and Canada. Usually this is at 4:30EST. Only yesterday they didn't send it on time. Instead they sent it at 0800EST Wednesday. This threw a lot of people out. From watching the figures previously I know that about 4,000 people download each episode via Bittorrent. So come midnight GMT when the torrent usually becomes available, there were 4,000 impatient people thoroughly pissing off the Ops of four different IRC channels that I frequent.

Through the course of the next 24 hours we learned that the 0800 feed had been captured and the MPEG encoded rip was on its way "soon". It was actually released at 2030EST, the time when Enterprise airs on UPN. There was a slight rush.

My copy just finished, so I'm off to watch it now.

The thing we do for decent telly huh?