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Well, it is quantifiable, just as anything that goes across the internet is quantifiable if you're looking at the 'right' data, which one assumes the company mentioned would be. I just don't see how it's possible.
BTW, in 2003, I had a three-week fling with Courtney Cox. See how easy it is to make stuff up? It was actually Jennifer Aniston. Quote:
Are they saying that the three or four episodes of TGT have been downloaded more times than the sixty odd episodes of GoT? Maybe if they're comparing the first three episodes of each show, but that's hardly a like for like comparison.
Well, it's the Daily Mail. Like The Sun, the only thing they get right is the date.
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Why would people want a fuzzy picture when you can get a months trial free?
You can download it in SD and HD 720p or HD 1080p. Far from fuzzy! |
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I'm really enjoying the new series, but wish that James May and Richard Hammond got more to do. It seems to be more centred on JC than it used to be, with James and Richard just acting as stooges all the time. In Top Gear they did actually get to do full items on their own occasionally.
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Seeing as we have to put up with Celebrity Brain Crash for this series, I think we should utilize it & nominate celebrities whom we could imagine getting their just desserts!
My picks would be Freddie Flintoff & Joe Swash. |
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I'm slightly amazed at how the Grand Tour just feels totally and utterly like Top Gear. Obviously, with Clarkson, Hammond and May as presenters, it would always feel familiar. But it's just so blatantly Top Gear 2. The tent is the equivalent of the hangar, 'Conversation Street' is the 'News', they've got a pet racing driver, their own track, a lap-time board, etc, etc. It's as close as it possibly can be. I'm not complaining, I enjoyed the old Top Gear, but I thought they might have tried changing the format a little bit more than they have.
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I have been watching TGT, but to be honest, I am not feeling so entertained by it. It just seems to be focussed on JC, with JM and Hamster not doing much else. I also miss the antics of them building their cars and so on as they used to do in Top Gear. Now they no longer show any of that.
Although I am glad that we don't have smellovison I am glad that I wasn't eating when they showed the maggots! ![]() The production values look amazing, with fantastic scenery and so on. However, the actual things are a bit boring. I used to enjoy it when they had limited budgets for cars to go on epic journeys. Now it has been supercars and hypercars, with the exception of the environmental challenge. I did enjoy the Hamster parking sensor though. ![]() They need to include more funny things, I used to laugh at the older Top Gear episodes, but now not much more than a smile. |
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Youre bitter because you dont know any good streaming sites arent you?
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Seeing as we have to put up with Celebrity Brain Crash for this series, I think we should utilize it & nominate celebrities whom we could imagine getting their just desserts!
My picks would be Freddie Flintoff & Joe Swash.
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Why would people want a fuzzy picture when you can get a months trial free?
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Nope I just have an overwhelming sense of doing the decent thing
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Unless you can track every last individual downloading a torrent, then you can't get any sort of figure.
Just because a 'transmission' (i.e. a download in this case) can't necessarily be traced back to the individual that initiated it, doesn't mean there isn't any evidence that that transmission occured. The meta-data will have been logged somewhere, or maybe just detected, as all those 1's and 0's zipped along the fibre optics. Obviously you need to know what you're looking for, and presumably this anti-piracy company does. Yes, it's possible the numbers provided by them are utter bollocks and they're just pitching for a contract with Amazon by making them aware of the scale of the problem, but it's entirely possible to do. If it wasn't, how would legal downloads of anything be quantifiable? |
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Can't believe people still use torrent sites when there's so many free streaming sites
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Can't believe people still use torrent sites when there's so many free streaming sites
(I'm not talking about TGT here. I do stream that, but only because I have a Prime account. If I didn't, I'd torrent it.) |
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I'm the opposite. Why stream when you can just download in minutes and watch off-line whenever and wherever you want?
(I'm not talking about TGT here. I do stream that, but only because I have a Prime account. If I didn't, I'd torrent it.) |
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For some reason The grand tour has a blurry picture on my iPhone but not iPad any ideas what's causing it?
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I have been watching TGT, but to be honest, I am not feeling so entertained by it. It just seems to be focussed on JC, with JM and Hamster not doing much else. I also miss the antics of them building their cars and so on as they used to do in Top Gear. Now they no longer show any of that.
. ![]() This is TGT not TG. They are only 4 shows in with 8 more to come in this series alone. Who's to say what they may have in store for us to enjoy
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For some reason The grand tour has a blurry picture on my iPhone but not iPad any ideas what's causing it?
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Well they built 3 cars this week
![]() This is TGT not TG. They are only 4 shows in with 8 more to come in this series alone. Who's to say what they may have in store for us to enjoy ![]() |
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It's probably that Amazon is trying to guess what the best bitrate for that specific device is and guessing wrong. Are you using the same internet connection for both?
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Can't believe people still use torrent sites when there's so many free streaming sites
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Be nice if Amazon thought the same way when it came to paying tax!
Those of us that paid willingly for something we wanted instead of expecting it for free can hold our heads high
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I'm slightly amazed at how the Grand Tour just feels totally and utterly like Top Gear. Obviously, with Clarkson, Hammond and May as presenters, it would always feel familiar. But it's just so blatantly Top Gear 2. The tent is the equivalent of the hangar, 'Conversation Street' is the 'News', they've got a pet racing driver, their own track, a lap-time board, etc, etc. It's as close as it possibly can be. I'm not complaining, I enjoyed the old Top Gear, but I thought they might have tried changing the format a little bit more than they have.
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Having watched this week's, it's certainly the most 'Top Gear' of the episodes so far, and much better for it, in particular the Porsche review at the start.
The on-screen lap time board is quite possibly the most charmless thing in the world, though. |
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The on-screen lap time board is quite possibly the most charmless thing in the world, though.
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Agree with your sentiments here, especially your first and last sentence, there is still time for the tweaks I feel it needs.
That said some genuine laughs from the fourth episode and thought the Hammond parking sensor was genius!!! But I also felt the challenge dragged on a bit.and I wish they lose the celebrity killing bit now. The TV series Police Squad used to do that in the 80s, but that was part of the show. On TGT, it was funny during episode 1 & continuing to episode 2 would have been funny, but there's no need for it now. |
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