Torrent Episode Downloader

Martin Brinkmann
Jul 13, 2008
Updated • Dec 2, 2012
Software, Windows software
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TV Shows are one of the most popular media that get downloaded from Bittorrent. It's very handy for viewing missed episodes of a favorite tv show or to view tv shows in their original language and not the translated version that fails to catch the spirit of the original show. I don't want to talk about the legal aspect. It is my opinion that everyone should make the decision for himself whether he downloads TV shows from Bittorrent.

Ted, which stands for Torrent Episode Downloader, is probably the easiest way to download tv shows from Bittorrent. The application has been designed specifically for that purpose. It comes with a range of preconfigured shows (more than 100) that are displayed by default. Many popular tv shows are listed including 24, Battlestar Galactica, CSI and Lost among others.

It works like the following. The user picks a show from the list and Ted displays a description of that show along with a list of episodes that are currently available. Episodes are just listed as Season 2, Episode 4 which makes it a bit harder to find out if that is the show that you missed for example unless you want to download a full season.

Next to that is the original air date of that show and the availability on the network. The main advantage of Ted is that it is easy to use with close to zero configuration and has a wide assortment of shows in the list. Custom shows can be added to Ted as well. It does have some shortcomings though which I would like to address.

First of all not all episodes of the tv shows are listed which means that you will miss episodes if you use TED exclusively. If you use another Bittorrent client and Bittorrent websites for downloading those shows you could easily download everything from there right away which would make TED redundant.

There is not a lot of information available when downloading a show which is great for inexperienced users but experts will miss some details that they are used to analyse when downloading from Bittorrent.

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  1. Tony said on December 13, 2019 at 8:52 am
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    I use Allavsoft to download videos, music, anime from various streaming sites. It provides two methods to download the online videos: Method 1: Copy and paste the video or music url to Allavsoft and click Download button; Method 2: Record option.

  2. mavrrr said on October 3, 2010 at 2:59 am
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    I download with ted.com by means of service takeyoutube.com

  3. Aman said on August 13, 2008 at 2:11 am
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    Right away, my first thought is what file types does it have? And who puts the files on the TED server?

  4. avinashsonee said on July 14, 2008 at 11:15 am
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    Awesome Application. Nice find. It was painful to search for each and every episode. Thanks – TED does it.

  5. AussieRodney said on July 14, 2008 at 7:57 am
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    TED works brilliantly for us. My wife can run it on her own machine (& therefore have full control) & TED is configured to place the torrents it finds in the appropriate folder on the file server, which is the one that runs uTorrent in the background.

  6. Rarst said on July 13, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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    Tried it in the past and it was very bugged (no idea if it improved since).

    utorrent client that has integrated RSS downloader plus specialized site that provides feeds for specific topic you need works better. May be bit hard to setup but after that it just works.

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