I guess the main difference between the two is – Stage6 offers high quality DivX videos of nationally broadcasted shows as well as amateur videos. Youtube offers a much greater selection of mostly amateur videos that are in the flash video format.
Video Quality
Winner: Stage6 offers much better video quality. In fact, some videos are close to high definition quality. You can watch videos in true full-screen mode.
Content
Winner: Youtube – This category is not even close.
Mainstream friendly
Winner: Youtube – Uses flash video that is preinstalled on most browsers. Stage6 requires visitors to install a DivX codec plugin.
The popularity of youtube cannot be disputed but if you haven’t tried stage6 you’ll be surprised at the high quality videos they provide. Visit http://www.stage6.com/ and see for yourself.
Shhhh…I’m going to let in on a little secret. I’m going to show you how to download all the newest movies, television shows, radio shows you could ever want.
Newsgroups: A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. The term is somewhat confusing, because it is usually a discussion group. Newsgroups are technically distinct from, but functionally similar to, discussion forums on the World Wide Web. Newsreader software is used to read newsgroups. This may all sound a little confusing, so let me simplify it for you.For example, years ago people would use newsgroups to share information about “Dogs” so a newsgroup called alt.pets.dogs would be created so all dogs lovers from all over the world would have an online meeting place to get together to discuss “dogs”. Most discussion newsgroups are done in “text” to minimize network bandwidth usage.
Now lets get to the good stuff! Just like the newsgroup alt.pets.dogs can be created so can alt.binaries.tv. Take note on the word “binaries”. A binary file that contains more than plain text (i.e., photos, sounds, spreadsheet, etc.) In contrast to an ASCII file which only contains plain text. Let me give you an example on how alt.binaries.tv gets populated with television shows that everyone can download. John Doe loves the NBC television show “The office”, so he records to the show and uploads it to alt.binaries.tv newsgroup for everyone to download just minutes after the live episode aired. While Newsgroups were not created with the intention of distributing binary files, they have proven to be quite effective for this. Due to the way they work, a file uploaded once will be spread and can then be downloaded by an unlimited number of users. More useful is the fact that every user is drawing on the bandwidth of their own news server. This means that unlike P2P technology, the user’s download speed is under their own control, as opposed to under the willingness of other people to share files. In fact this is another benefit of Newsgroups: it is usually not expected that users share. If every user makes uploads then the servers would be flooded; thus it is acceptable and often encouraged for users to just leech. Get it?
Binary newsgroups share millions of files a day! Do you want to know how you can start leeching/downloading?
Here is what you’ll need to get started:
1)Usenet access – I recommend Giganews. All brand-new Giganews members are entitled to a 3 day or 10GB free trial, whichever is reached first. If you elect to cancel your account by 12:01 AM (GMT -6) on the third day of service or before downloading 10GB of data, you will be charged absolutely nothing. After three days have passed or 10GB has been downloaded, your trial will automatically convert to the account selected at signup and your account will be charged.
2)Usenet client or news reader – I highly recommend newsbin pro. DO NOT USE OUTLOOK EXPRESS!
3)WinRAR – 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can. WinRAR’s main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), repair of damaged archives, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Unicode is supported in archive filenames, allowing non-English filenames to be handled painlessly. You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once and view a volume sequence as a single archive. WinRAR can convert other archive formats to RAR and search for specified text and files in archives.
4)Quickpar – This can be used to repair incomplete or missing files.
Here is a video created by Giganews that will help you configure the newsreader.
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