timgt Wrote:Im pretty sure most people use astraweb because of its retention being just as good as giganews and its price at 11 bucks a month.
Let's say you want to watch a 1080p movie that weights 12-16 GB. How long does it take you on other providers to start watching?
On easynews you use their global search, it returns a http link to ALREADY UNCOMPRESSED mkv movie, you click the link, buffer for a few secs, and off you go.
I am not affiliated with them in any way, I just use the service. Retention may be not good as others, but for me, with today's broadband, downloading is not an option. Neither is the use of complicated methods to achive streaming.
Easynews is much like Icefilms of usenet. Just as Icefilms - no need for on the fly decoding and uncompressing (SabNZBd). However, it has much broader choice of media. New releases, HD content, adult content...etc.
Ok, it is a paysite. But for any decently confortable method of streaming (megaupload premium) you need some kind of subscription. Not to mention paying for nzb indexing site and news provider separately.
I just can't understand why there are plugins for every minor site that offers some nondescript content, and there isn't for such a big shot site that could be, beside NAVI-X for older stuff and Sportdevil for live coverages, your only media plugin.