Torrents from Sapporo '07 available?

I see that some were put up last year. I've only ever downloaded one
torrent before, but when I tried getting anything from last year's
links nothing happened. I don't really know what torrents are/do, but
I guess they're freshness-dated. JFT says the course footage is
exciting so I'd like to check it out. Thanks for any tips, links. -- JP

I found many links:
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/902...pporo_15SK.htm
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/920...pporo_2x7.html
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/902...am_sprint.html
http://www.mininova.org/tor/646822l
http://www.mininova.org/tor/610093

I advice polish program Torrent Master which search very fast in all
sites like Mininova, Pirate Bay and others, I just wrote "Sapporo" and
I have near 20 links now.

http://torrentmaster.pl/download.php which

Daniel wrote:
I found many links:
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/902...pporo_15SK.htm
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/920...pporo_2x7.html
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/902...am_sprint.html
http://www.mininova.org/tor/646822l
http://www.mininova.org/tor/610093

I advice polish program Torrent Master which search very fast in all
sites like Mininova, Pirate Bay and others, I just wrote "Sapporo" and
I have near 20 links now.

http://torrentmaster.pl/download.php which

Hi Daniel,
I wouldn't download an exe from a site I didn't trust. Try download.com
(run by CNET).
e.g.
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4.ht...earch&tag=srch

I'm not saying there's a virus in torrentmaster; just that it's not a
good idea to download an exe and install it without knowing anything
about the source and I was unable to get any independent info on
torrentmaster. What I did find is several torrent sites that have
torrentmaster as a bit torrent - using p2p to get an exe is even scarier
than going to an unknown server, in my book.

I haven't checked out any of the torrent search programs on download.com
either, but at least I can do a little research before I put my machine
at risk.

just a note of caution - all the best,
Bob

On Mar 12, 10:21*am, "Jeff Potter (of OutYourBackdoor.com)"
wrote:
I see that some were put up last year. I've only ever downloaded one
torrent before, but when I tried getting anything from last year's
links nothing happened. I don't really know what torrents are/do, but
I guess they're freshness-dated. JFT says the course footage is
exciting so I'd like to check it out. Thanks for any tips, links. -- JP

I keep all those already downloaded on my HD for anyone to download
(until there is no more room for them), plus those few that I didn´t
have a chance to download it due to lack of seeders, but the problem
is that my broadband is a relatively low and there aren´t much more
seeders around, so you will probably have a difficult time to download
it.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:03:46 -0700 (PDT), Daniel
wrote:

I found many links:
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/902...pporo_15SK.htm
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/920...pporo_2x7.html
http://www.bittorrent.am/torrent/902...am_sprint.html
http://www.mininova.org/tor/646822l
http://www.mininova.org/tor/610093

I advice polish program Torrent Master which search very fast in all
sites like Mininova, Pirate Bay and others, I just wrote "Sapporo" and
I have near 20 links now.

http://torrentmaster.pl/download.php which

Yeah, and not a torrent but some of the same terrain is on Youtube (at
much lower quality) -- for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uPZz...eature=related

I'm, sure Youtube has some of the major marathons such as Vasaloppet
too.

If we talk about torrents from world championships: is here anybody
who has Lahti 2001 and could make a torrent ? I found something (3 GB)
but the number of seeds is still the same: 0 ...

I've had a devil of a time trying to see these vids.

None of my computers seem able to play these torrents right! Something
is always not just right with the Codecs, etc. The best I got was
audio.

Then my best WinXP machine suddenly stops playing YouTube at all! (It
says Javascript not on and/or Flash not up to date---both untrue---I
googled this glitch and got many hits from people who got the same
error---with many fixes, non of which worked for me. UGH!)

I then watched that YouTube clip on another machine---it has a lame
skidding turn on what visually appears as an unattractive downhill--
not much of a hill, in other words. But some of the skiers who came by
in a bunch did go faster and didn't skid as much and did have cool ski
form but only for about one second. ---This kind of hill and/or
footage can't help XC TV popularity.

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:13:19 -0700 (PDT), "Jeff Potter (of
OutYourBackdoor.com)" wrote:

I've had a devil of a time trying to see these vids.

None of my computers seem able to play these torrents right! Something
is always not just right with the Codecs, etc. The best I got was
audio.

Then my best WinXP machine suddenly stops playing YouTube at all! (It
says Javascript not on and/or Flash not up to date---both untrue---I
googled this glitch and got many hits from people who got the same
error---with many fixes, non of which worked for me. UGH!)

I then watched that YouTube clip on another machine---it has a lame
skidding turn on what visually appears as an unattractive downhill--
not much of a hill, in other words. But some of the skiers who came by
in a bunch did go faster and didn't skid as much and did have cool ski
form but only for about one second.

---This kind of hill and/or
footage can't help XC TV popularity.

Is TV popularity of the sport increasing or decreasing? Are there
sports with the elements you think are important that are growing on
TV?

On Mar 16, 9:59 am, John Forrest Tomlinson
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:13:19 -0700 (PDT), "Jeff Potter (of
[ ]
I then watched that YouTube clip on another machine---it has a lame
skidding turn on what visually appears as an unattractive downhill--
not much of a hill, in other words. But some of the skiers who came by
in a bunch did go faster and didn't skid as much and did have cool ski
form but only for about one second.
---This kind of hill and/or
footage can't help XC TV popularity.

Is TV popularity of the sport increasing or decreasing?

It doesn't seem like it gets over here to the US, in English, any more
than ever---despite all the new technology. *IF* TV cameras are
getting smaller and cheaper that would SEEM to be a good thing for
televising "remote" events like XC. Other "remote" events like
survivalism, of course, have exploded on TV. And on the Net---thanks
to small, cheap vid-cams.

Are there
sports with the elements you think are important that are growing on
TV?

Survival shows, as mentioned, seem to readily catch the dynamic
aspects of remote outdoor action.

It seems like the Extreme sports are booming---and in skisport they're
now going for the MASSED format, from what I've noticed, for the most
pop type of skiing. Skicross is all over YouTube anyway. XC has always
had it---but no media have ever tried to use that angle to give XC any
pop appeal that I can tell. But, sadly, XC has only gotten onto US TV
for Oly's and until recently that was intervals only, wasn't it? It
seems as though the PR of XC just flounders and flounders forever. I
hope that's not the case---I just haven't ever noticed the slightest
media buzz about it. What's really sad is that the XC women skiers
have always been the most attractive winter athletes---but the media
hasn't even lingered on them or found a way to attract viewers that
way. And the guys have cool suits, too. It's a good-looking sport but
it's like the media have worked as hard as they can to pigeonhole XC
in with curling. Well, US media anyway. Road cycling seems to be doing
better on TV by comparison.

....But real numbers would be good to have.

Would there be any US XC footage this winter for them to rate? (Whew!)

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:42:55 -0700 (PDT), "Jeff Potter (of
OutYourBackdoor.com)" wrote:

Survival shows, as mentioned, seem to readily catch the dynamic
aspects of remote outdoor action.

I thought the popularity of those shows was mainly about the personal
interaction, and not the outdoor action