Top Gear in HD...

is about 100 times better. I was having trouble getting the .mkv file to play smoothly on my laptop and pc and didn't feel like reading 7 pages of technical jargon to figure it out. So I simply load the file to a jump drive, plug it into the USB slot on my samsung and it plays perfectly right off the usb drive. This just made my week....such a trivial thing, but since I have to work on the 3rd instead of being a redneck and enjoying the Grand-Am race and Daytona 400, this will somewhat suffice.

DirtyBird222 wrote: So I simply load the file to a jump drive, plug it into the USB slot on my samsung and it plays perfectly right off the usb drive.

Samsung TV?

VLC player makes it easy

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I have a PC hooked up to my TV and use VLC player to watch Top Gear in HD. (I do enjoy it more in HD.)

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

How new is that Samsung and what's the model number? I need to check that out. I could hook up an external USB hard drive and skip the PC.

I stick it on a USB drive and plug it in to the PS3. Works a treat! (Am I too American to say that?) Works like a charm!

Ended up watching the SD version on Sunday night because the HD torrent was craaaawling.

I have sound SMPlayer ( http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/ ) handles some .mkv files a lot better than VLC, depending on what codec was used inside the container.

I use mkv2vob to convert it to an .avi file; then stream it over the PS3. Takes about 2 minutes and is great quality.

Or just turn on the cable box and watch a watered down BBC America HD version. Doesnt get much easier than that.

I've got my old gaming rig (1.8 GHz AMD lolz) hooked up to my 37" LCD. I stuck it in a nice HTPC case so it doesn't look out of place with the rest of the AV equipment. It's an awesome setup for watching Top Gear and movies that I "purchased" over the internet.

Some of their models even support network streaming from any PC on your network. You don't even need the flash drive part, just sit and watch. I <3 technology!

Is the download link on finalgear broken? I'm having trouble.

mcp001 wrote: How new is that Samsung and what's the model number? I need to check that out. I could hook up an external USB hard drive and skip the PC.

We also have a Samsung with USB ports. It's a 6000 series (UN55B6000) LED LCD that we got last December.

I have the 1080i version of Top Gear here - 3.XX gigs but it didn't take that long to download. Can't watch it yet because the wife likes the show as well and gets mad at me if I watch it without her, and I'm not sneaky enough to watch it now and pretend I hadn't when we both sit down to see it later.

I'm converting S15E1 from MKV so I can watch it on the Xbox.

So.. uh.. where are you guys downloading HD TG?

http://www.finalgear.com

Make sure you install something like uTorrent first :)