Thursday Night Throwdown: 02/17/11

Makes sense it's for paid members. 
 
For the free users you have two options which make watching the Justin.tv TNTs a lot easier.
  

• TNT Archive 
• Games Featured on Giant Bomb's Thursday Night Throwdown    

Glad to see these archived!

Paid members only for recorded TNTs? Lame.

I assume it only being available for paid members is a mistake...?
 
Not cause i would mind, by the way, cause they can very easily be viewed from Justin.tv, which is exactly why i think it'd be weird if they made them Paid Members only here.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. Giant bomb!?

Probably a mistake. Can't imagine these would only be for paying members.

Aw, man... hope this isn't staying paid only. I doubt it will somehow.
 
Not forgetting, you can totally just watch it on Justin.tv like I've always done before they started archiving on here.

Its really nice that they started archiving these. This way i can watch the ones i want more often than i get to normally =D

@brad @vinny @jeff is this video only for paying members? or is it a mistake?

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I love it my campuses internet "

Paid, oh please be joking. I didn't watch TNT last night just because of them being put on later. This makes me sad.

Lame as hell it's exclusive to paid members. Justin.TV is a broken ass website and I hate watching TNT on there.

Thank you Vinny, I really appreciate it. 

"I assume it only being available for paid members is a mistake...?  Not cause i would mind, by the way, cause they can very easily be viewed from Justin.tv, which is exactly why i think it'd be weird if they made them Paid Members only here. "

I'm greateful they have this on the site now

 Yeah, wouldn't be surprised if it actually was for paid only. They always said they weren't gonna put it up on the site before because it was too resource intensive or some shit, but now they got paying members so it's all good.

I love that the TNTs are being posted on the site now. That is awesome.

Glad that the site is able to make money, but yeah...I'm good on this.

Please keep uploading these

" @prencher: JTVs archive system is disgusting but if this is only for paid members I'd probably have to watch it on there. "

" @Skrams said:

" @prencher: JTVs archive system is disgusting but if this is only for paid members I'd probably have to watch it on there. "

Really? I never experienced any problems.  UStream, now there was a bitch and a half. So glad they stopped having them there. "

Too bad it's members only. Couple more money worries I need to take care of before I can support you guys!

Is this video actually working for anyone? It won't play for me in browser, and when I tried to download it, it crapped out at around 20%.

I would support this as a paid member bonus - and as you can see I am not a paid member (damn paypal).
 
Reasoning being that regular members can still see this for free @justin.tv and members subs go towards the gb bandwidth for hosting it in a more convienient location.
 
I think this is the way to go for content on sites.  (almost) everything available to everyone but if you contribute then the reward is convenience.

Not sure where the hate for last weeks TNT is coming from, to be honest. Will and Vinny were hilarious as the hosts. I love Jeff and Ryan fo sho, but they can't bash last week when this show aired. Lotta creepin' on the fighting girls by the guest, and not a lot of hilarious banter.  
 
I am glad Jeff gave MvC3 a good review, though! He certainly has become a decent fighter, judging from these matches.

Can't see this, because I'm not a paid member. 
I just wanted to make it known that I was the dick Arthur. 
That is all.

Allowing non-paid members to watch it the first time, love it, then immediately do a bait and switch forcing us to subscribe to see any more of them is kind of uncool. (And yes, I know I can watch them on shitty jtustintv. It's such a trivial, lazy thing to do anyway. Of all things for them to monetize, they decide to ask for money over content they were already doing in the first place. Blegh.)

" @Skrams: Have you tried downloading from JTV and watching it locally?  Something like fileget for firefox or the chrome equivalent.  Or the direct links are posted on the forum. "

 @Skrams: i for one like that this is for paid members. I try to export to youtube from justin.tv which you can do as well but the quality just isnt HD, which I can get from the site. 
 
Create a justin.tv account, export to youtube, and watch on your tv through your WD tv live box or any number of media streaming boxes that allow youtube. It even autocreates a playlist so you can just watch it all back. Then you dont have to deal with the broken site that j.tv is, or the ads.

Thank you guys for archiving this for us. Now I just have to wait ten hours for it to download. 

"Not too weird if this is what they're doing. Because I guess here they're paying the bandwidth costs where they don't have to for justin. I think. Actually I don't know how paying justin works, so who knows.  Maybe it's like they're not cutting out the free members because they know you can watch the archives, but for paying members they can check it out here and avoid all those god damn annoying justin tv ads (which have gotten better, thankfully) "

I love having TNTs on here; so convenient. I'll keep this is mind for next week, rather than watching it on crusty old archived JT. ;)

BOO.

Yay! Its on the site! Wait paid members only? WTF WHY? 

This is just STUPID GIANTBOMB... This really pisses me off. Ok, it is a paid members only thing but you should AT LEAST inform us about it. I do not pay not because I'm cheap but because I don't have money. I can barely pay my internet conection bills... I know I can watch this on justin but their streaming service is way slower than giantbomb's because of the quality it records... Please guys stop doing this... 

" This is just STUPID GIANTBOMB... This really pisses me off. Ok, it is a paid members only thing but you should AT LEAST inform us about it. I do not pay not because I'm cheap but because I don't have money. I can barely pay my internet conection bills... I know I can watch this on justin but their streaming service is way slower than giantbomb's because of the quality it records... Please guys stop doing this...  "

Paid members only? Cool :D

YES! 
 
It's official, I can finally stop downloading the archive from Justin.tv with a Firefox add-on. Hated doing that.