Poor Man’s TiVo: BitTorrent & RSS

I know a lot of you cats have TiVo, but I thought I’d share my favorite method of down­load­ing our favorite TV shows, sans TiVo…

Bit­Tor­rent is awe­some, as every­one knows… but, I hate having to con­tin­u­ously scan the tracker sites for the shows I want, and then, I hate wait­ing for them to down­load. Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell your Bit­Tor­rent client what shows you want, and it would down­load them automatically?

Why, yes. That is the point of my post.

By using the java client Azureus, in com­bi­na­tion with its RSS plugin, you can. I’ve been using this for a couple of months, and I couldn’t be happier… espe­cially when trav­el­ing. When we flew to Buf­falo last month, I quickly grabbed a couple episodes of the Simp­sons and Viva La Bam. Instant air­port entertainment.

The details are avail­able in this post: How to never miss an episode with Bit­Tor­rent and RSS.