In Praise of BTDigg

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Music:



RCA Living Stereo 60 CD Collection (Box Set)








 
In the 1950’s, RCA Victor made a substantial body of recordings which have come to be identified with their first stereo label, Living Stereo. At the beginning of the widespread adoption of stereo audio in the home, Living Stereo offered a wide range of music, performances, and audio quality that are still considered to be definitive today. The first commercial stereophonic recording was made by RCA in 1954 of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch, performing The Damnation of Faust. This began the practice of simultaneously recording orchestras with both stereophonic and monaural equipment.

Living Stereo influenced many classical recordings made since and represents an important part of audiophile history.



Audio Format: FLAC

Size: 18.45GB

The booklet is included.




















Content of CDs:

01. Sampler
02. Charles Munch. Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3; Debussy: La Mer; Ibert: Escales
03. Charles Munch. Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo
04. Fritz Reiner. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Ein Heldenleben
05. Fritz Reiner. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
06. Jascha Heifetz. Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
07. Van Cliburn. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
08. Arthur Fiedler. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; An American in Paris; Variations..
09. Fritz Reiner. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
10. Leontyne Price. Leontyne Price: Arias
11. Arthur Rubinstein. Chopin: Ballades & Scherzos
12. Pierre Monteux. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Pathtique
13. Morton Gould. Brass & Percussion
14. Jascha Heifetz. Sibelius, Prokofiev, Glazunov: Violin Concertos
15. Charles Munch. Berlioz: Requiem 2CD
16. Charles Munch. Berlioz: Requiem 2CD
17. Charles Munch. Ravel: Bolero; La Valse; Rapsodie espagnole; Debussy: Images for Orchestra
18. Gregor Piatigorsky. Dvorak; Walton: Cello Concertos
19. Fritz Reiner. Dvorak: New World Symphony
20. Fritz Reiner. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
21. Arthur Rubinstein. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1
22. Arthur Fiedler. Offenbach: Gat parisienne
23. Van Cliburn. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
24. Arthur Fiedler. Hi-Fi Fiedler
25. Jascha Heifetz. Brahms; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
26. Pierre Monteux. Franck:Symphony in D Minor; Stravinsky: Petrouchka
27. Charles Munch. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
28. Charles Munch. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Love Scene From Romeo & Juliet
29. Fritz Reiner. Strauss: Scenes from Elektra & Salome
30. Fritz Reiner. Mahler: Symphony No. 4
31. Arthur Rubinstein. Chopin: Piano Concertos
32. Leopold Stokowsky. Rhapsodies
33. Morton Gould. Copland: Billy The Kid & Rodeo; Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
34. Anna Moffo. Arias from Faust; La Bohme; Dinorah; Carmen; Turandot; Semiramide; Lakm
35. Fritz Reiner. Respighi: Pines Of Rome; Fountains Of Rome & Debussy: La Mer
36. Fritz Reiner. Vienna
37. Charles Munch. Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Octet: Scherzo
38. Arthur Fiedler. Pops Caviar
39. Arthur Rubinstein. Beethoven: Sonatas (Moonlight; Les Adieux; Pathetique; Appassionata)
40. Jascha Heifetz. Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Scottish Fantasy & Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No. 5
41. Mario Lanza. Mario! Lanza At His Best; Vagabond King Highlights
42. Virgil Fox. Encores
43. Erich Leinsdorf. Puccini: La Bohme 2CD
44. Erich Leinsdorf. Puccini: La Bohme 2CD
45. Erich Leinsdorf. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
46. Erich Leinsdorf. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
47. Anna Moffo. Verdi: La Traviata 2CD
48. Anna Moffo. Verdi: La Traviata 2CD
49. Jussi Bjorling. Puccini: Turandot 2CD
50. Jussi Bjorling. Puccini: Turandot 2CD
51. Charles Munch. Schubert: Symphonies “The Great” & “Unfinished”
52. Fritz Reiner. Strauss: Don Quixote & Don Juan
53. Jascha Heifetz. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor
54. Julian Bream. Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar
55. Leontyne Price. Albeniz: Navarra, Iberia; Falla: El amor
56. Arthur Rubinstein. Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2; Franck: Symphonic Variations;
57. Charles Munch. Berlioz: Harold In Italy; The Roman Carnival Overture; Benvenuto Cellini Overture
58. Fritz Reiner. Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde
59. Fritz Reiner. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica; Suite From Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
60. Van Cliburn. Schumann: Piano Concerto In A minor; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 “Emperor”





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TV Series



The Last Detective (2003-2007)









Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies is one offbeat flatfoot who takes the stuff at the bottom of the pile - the cases nobody wants. In his usual comical way, Davies and good friend Mod help unfold events that usually end up in disaster, but they still manage to nab their man.

The series is based on the Dangerous Davies series of novels written by Leslie Thomas.



IMDb rating: 7.8



Stars: Peter Davison  Sean Hughes  Rob Spendlove

Original Network: ITV

No. of seasons: 4

No. of episodes: 17

Episode run time: 80 minutes
























































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Sample specs (S01E01):

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Series 1 - 3.61GB

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Series 2 - 3.20GB

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Series 4 - 3.98GB

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[Resurgence]

eBook/Audiobook:



Kill Anything That Moves - The Real American War In Vietnam (2013)









A startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians, based on classified documents and first-person interviews.

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by “a few bad apples.” But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to “kill anything that moves.”

Drawing on more than a decade of research in secret Pentagon files and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded. In shocking detail, he lays out the workings of a military machine that made crimes in almost every major American unit all but inevitable. Kill Anything That Moves takes us from archives filled with Washington’s long-suppressed war crimes investigations to the rural Vietnamese hamlets that bore the brunt of the war; from boot camps where young American soldiers learned to hate all Vietnamese to bloodthirsty campaigns like Operation Speedy Express, in which a general obsessed with body counts led soldiers to commit what one participant called “a My Lai a month.”

Thousands of Vietnam books later, Kill Anything That Moves, devastating and definitive, finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts Americans to this day.













eBook:


EPUB

321 pages

919.7 KB


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Audiobook:


MP3-96 kb/s

Unabridged

8hrs49min

Read by Don Lee

366.5MB


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[Resurgence]

TV Film Pack:



The Shakespeare Collection (Box Set)









The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television.

Transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985, the series spanned seven seasons and thirty-seven episodes.

























Screenshots - All's Well That Ends Well:








































Example Specs - All's Well That Ends Well:

480p.DVDRip.585 kb/s WMV3.64 kb/s WMAV2 - 695MB





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TV Documentary:



Guge: The Lost Kingdom of Tibet (2006)









In the barren landscape of remote western Tibet lie the ruins of a mysterious kingdom whose capital, high on the Tibetan plateau, offers archaeological treasures comparable with Italy’s Pompeii. Once controlling the trade in gold, silk and spices between India and China, Guge was a kingdom of fabulous wealth and great religious significance - the cradle of Himalayan Buddhism. Yet, this spiritual and commercial hub vanished without a trace in 1630. Extraordinary altitude, hostile terrain and political upheaval have prevented all but a select few from making a serious study in this area. Tibetan Historian Tsering Gyalpo and American archaeologist John Bellezza unravel its mystery.



Original Network: Discovery Channel

Running Time: 52 minutes





































720p.4625 kb/s.192 kb/s AC-3 - 1.98GB

Audio Track 1: Russian
Audio Track 2: English


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TV Series



The Prisoner (1967-1968)









After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.

It featured one man's quest to retain his individuality in an enclosed village. Both literal and allegorical, the deep and dark series confused many on its release and has become one of the most popular shows ever broadcast.



IMDb rating: 8.5



Stars: Patrick McGoohan  Angelo Muscat  Peter Swanwick

Original Network: ITC/ITV

No. of seasons: 1

No. of episodes: 17









































































Opening Sequence:






Interview:


The Prisoner Puzzle


Patrick McGoohan discusses his hit TV series The Prisoner with host, Warner Troyer.

The Ontario Educational Communications Authority produced the interview in 1977.


This interview was also posted in The Serenity Thread (post 68).










Sample specs (Option 1 - E01):

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Option 1 - 13.40GB

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Extras - 2.03GB

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Scripts - 527.8MB

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[Resurgence]

Film - Fanedit:



Dune (1984) - The Alternative Edition - A Fanedit by Spicediver (Revised V.2)









A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.



IMDb rating: 6.3



Director: David Lynch

Stars: Kyle MacLachlan  Jürgen Prochnow  Max von Sydow



Running Time: 3hrs 3mins





About the Fanedit (Written by Spicediver):


Director David Lynch's strange and visionary sci-fi epic is given a new lease of life with this unique fan-edit by Spicediver. Dune The Alternative Edition is a painstakingly created new cut that draws on the Theatrical Version (1984), the Extended Version (1988), various deleted scenes, and two versions of the original soundtrack album. Presented in 2.35 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound. The revised Version 2 features additional changes and technical improvements.

ORIGINAL RUNTIME:137/177 minutes (NTSC)

NEW RUNTIME:183 minutes (NTSC)

TIME TAKEN FOR PROJECT: 12 months of planning, editing and revisions including V.2

INTENTIONS FOR THIS FANEDIT:

Both of the officially released versions of David Lynch's visually amazing 'Dune' have substantial problems. The Theatrical Version was gutted to the point of incomprehension by executive producer Dino De Laurentiis in his quest to make it a two hour movie instead of three. The easier-to-follow Extended Version assembled for cable TV, with much restored footage, was so incompetently put together by Universal's MCA TV division that Lynch ordered his name removed from the writing and directing credits.

Broadly, my intention with the Alternative Edition is to improve storytelling and flow by preserving the best elements from both official versions of the film while also integrating some newly available deleted scenes.

The Alternative Edition does not claim to be a director's cut. It is also based more on the Extended Version of Dune than several other fanedits doing the rounds. In this and many other respects the Alternative Edition is a significantly different take on the film. I have used Herbert's novel and the 6th and 7th drafts of Lynch's original script as a guide but have also taken my own liberties with the material.

CHANGES/CUTS/ADDITIONS (applies to both V.1 and V.2):

1) MISTAKES. Many of the mistakes exclusive to the Extended Edition have been removed or corrected - such as atrocious editing, the TV censorship cuts, and the silly repeated/fabricated footage used to set up or pad scenes.

2) COLOR CORRECTION. The 40 or so minutes of extra live footage hastily reinserted into the Extended Version by Universal/MCA was never color graded and suffers from color mismatches with the older Theatrical footage. In V.2 colour-correction has been applied to all shots, scenes and part-scenes where the mismatches are clearly apparent, which amounts to about 80% of the extra footage. However the missing "blue eyes" of the Fremen have still not been restored - a massive rotoscoping job I chose not to undertake.

3) PROLOGUE. The painted-stills Prologue from the Extended Version has been fixed to make it a more accurate and more helpful background to the Dune universe. It has been shortened and reconfigured to avoid repetition, to avoid giving away plot points, and to correct confusing mistakes. In V.2 the Prologue has been moved to the very start of the film, before any credits and before Reverend Mother Ramallo's introduction. In V.2 there are also slight changes to the score and the shot selection.

3) NARRATION. The male narration from the Extended Version was chosen for this edit and most of it has been preserved, while deleting or correcting occasional voiceover mistakes or misuse by the producers. I have always found this narration to be a more persuasive than Princess Irulan's voiceover from the Theatrical Version. In V.2 the narration has been completely removed from one scene where the Fremen watch House Atreides arrive on Arrakis.

4) MUSIC. The Extended Version of Dune assembled my Universal/MCA is badly re-scored. It inexplicably omits Brian Eno's 'Prophecy Theme' and generally the beautiful score by Toto is used far too often, too repetitively, and at times very inappropriately (eg. action music in a quiet scene). V.1 addressed this problem through restoring Eno's music and favouring scenes and sequences from the Theatrical Version wherever possible. In V.2 the problem is further addressed by the removal or re-scoring of the music in 6 more scenes.

5) SCENE ORDER. I have restored to their correct place a number of existing scenes that appear in the wrong part of one or both versions of the movie (eg. Duncan & Leto's reunion, the drowned baby worm ritual that produces the Water Of Life).

6) INTERNAL DIALOGUE. This was used successfully by Herbert in his novel but I believe it was a colossal mistake to adapt this device so literally to the screen. Many viewers including myself found much of it infuriating. In V.1 a handful of removals and edits were done to the internal dialogue, mostly in the dream sequences. In V.2. I have removed or minimized another 14 instances, again mostly without cutting any footage. Overall, the effect is a narrative that gives less away and unfolds more naturally.

7) DELETED SCENES. Some - but not all - of the deleted scenes that appeared as an Extras feature on the 2005 Universal Region 1 DVD release have been integrated into the Alternative Edition. These are rough-looking compared to the rest of the film rest but when edited back in these scenes restore plot points, warmth and character. In V.2 I have also performed some basic color correction on these scenes but the impact is limited given the poor condition of the footage.

9) TRANSFER QUALITY. It was noticed after the completion of V.1 that the Region 1 DVD Extended Print is actually slightly crisper that the Region 1 DVD Theatrical Print. Therefore in V.2 some Theatrical Version footage has been replaced with identical footage from the Extended print, while retaining the Theatrical Version's superior audio source.

10) OTHER V.2 CHANGES. Restored the destruction of the Weirding Modules; restored establishing shots in several scenes; restored several shots of Paul's filmbook slideshow; restored and fixed one of the filmbook voiceovers and its accompanying shots.

I hope you enjoy this revised version of the Alternative Edition and if you're downloading it via Bittorrent please seed for as long as you can.

May the Hand of God be with you...

SPICEDIVER, APRIL 2009
Discover fanedits at www.fanedit.org
spicediver10191@yahoo.com





















































Trailer:








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[Billybob1971]

Why are you praising BTDigg on The Pirate Bay's forum?

Why not praise The Pirate Bay?

[dueda]

TPB gets all the praise it needs from the copyright bullies and then some from the press. Not to mention, the users (the most important part).

[LZA]

Why are you praising BTDigg on The Pirate Bay's forum?

Why not praise The Pirate Bay?

TBH, I'm still not sure what exactly BTDigg is. I thought it was a user here but now it sounds like a website..

BTDigg? I've heard of DigDugg