Here is your weekly fix of Top Gear, you crack whores. :)

You’ll note that this rip is once again 350MB. We’re still working on whether 425MB would be worth it or not (it’s not cut and dry here because Top Gear isn’t broadcasted in HDTV and so we can only get so much quality from the source).

As usual, don’t forget to come discuss this episode in our forum!

Sorry, I have a WordPress plugin installed that makes sure the proper URLs are used when viewing news posts and it was screwing up the URL that needed to be used to confirm subscribe and unsubscribe requests.

As a result, I bet a ton of you were unable to confirm your subscription to the mailing list. So, I’ve gone ahead and manually confirmed all current pending subscriptions myself.

Once again, I’m sorry about that! :(

Go watch the new Fifth Gear episode and then dicuss it with us in our forum. :)

Yep, Top Gear is back in all of it’s glory! An all new episode aired tonight, one that was supposedly REALLY good (I haven’t watched it yet). Oh, and if you can’t get Top Gear on TV where you live, you can find a link to the torrent right here.

After you watch it, please join us on our forum to discuss the episode.

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Oh, this rip is indeed 350MB. We were planning on upping the filesize to 425MB, but Vuk hadn’t had time to run tests to find the best settings for 425MB rips. Next week’s rip will most likely be at the slightly larger filesize.

Now for as why we are going to the larger format, Vuk and I decided that even though 350MB had won the recent poll here on the site (55% to 45%), the increase in filesize was needed and worth it. Now, obviously size is still important to us, else we’d just release 2 gig rips. ;) But having a rip that’s too small is a real problem. The current rips have pixelation around moving objects at times and the audio isn’t all that great either.

For those on capped bandwidth connections, I apologize, but it’s just an extra 75MB an episode. Hopefully that won’t make you go over you limit. And if it does, it’s time to get a better connection anyway! ;)

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Come join us in our IRC channel (chat room, no IRC client required) for a pre-release party! We won’t have any prizes or anything like that, but you’ll be able to hang out with fellow fans as we count down the time until the new season starts. You’ll also get a link to the torrent a few minutes early (as it takes me a bit to update the site). So comon, what are you waiting for?

Yep, more Tiff, Jason, and Vicki for you this week. Enjoy!