Best UK TV channel for watching/recording Malcolm in the Middle?

spidermagicat

New member
Is there a channel that broadcasts Malcolm in the Middle without any watermarks in the corners?

I'm in the UK and I know it used to be on the BBC, I infact had recorded most of it onto DVD myself and had it all in great quality. Now the tragic part, the disks (along with anything else I've recorded, thankfully my real DVDs were somewhere else) were melted in a fire.

If I had known that fox hadn't released the later seasons and my recordings were so precious I would have uploaded rips for everyone before the tragedy. It's only now I try to recover what I have lost that I realise the true horror of this!

I plan to record all episodes again and upload so it will be safe for ever does anyone know where I can record them without annoying logos and watermarks so they can be perfect?

A site with schedules would also be great, please help
 

Batch

New member
As far as i know BBC is the only channel to air them wthout watermarks, but they show malcolm so rarely and have never shown season's 6 or 7 :(
 

Tyno

Malcolm-France
Actually, Malcolm in the Middle in being broadcasted both on Sky1 (seasons 2-3) and BBC2 (season 6).


Season 3 starts airing on Sky1 (and also Sky1 HD) this week in widescreen! As you may know, we have seasons 2-4-5-6-7 in widescreen but not seasons 1 and 3...

So does anybody is interested in recording the episodes so that we can have season 3 in good, widescreen quality?


Check the schedule (there's repeats) : http://uk-tv-guide.com/show-times/49237/Malcolm+in+the+Middle/Sitcom/
 

Tyno

Malcolm-France
I've asked this before, but how do people rate the quality of this clip?

Thanks
It's very good quality! And it's in widescreen, which is great and rare. Season 2 and 4 that we can download on the MITMVC torrent are similar to this. The file is really big, though. A MITM episode should be an approx. 175 Mo file.

Would you have all season 3 captured in this quality?
 

tjpeople

Site Administrator
Staff member
I have most episodes stored like this, but they are each stored at 1.3gb.

I don't know if you have tried, but how do the files come out when you encode them to 175MB or 350MB .avi?

Also do all the recordings have black bars on the side?
 

Batch

New member
For some reason, yes they do all have narrow black bars, must be my recorder. I'll take a shot at re-encoding one.
 

Batch

New member
I get this, no idea why:

forbiddenerrorcw9.jpg
 

AlexTheMartian

New member
well your download link worked for me tj. that is what my last reply was in response to. i see what you guys are talking about the black at the left and right sides. Just simply needs a cropping. as i said, while maintaining 16:9 in ratio.
 

MITM_Fan

Member
tjpeople,

try to deinterlace/crop/sharpen and make it smoother.

If you know how to work with AviSynth that'll be easy.

However we got CobraBK rips, I'll leave 2 pic's http://i38.tinypic.com/2r4pq89.jpg / http://i38.tinypic.com/34790gk.jpg

The resolution is, 624 * 352, pretty good, the quality is very good actually, CobraBK rips are awesome since he's the only one who, released MITM eps with High Quality.

P.S: I'm half away on season 4 and it's so fast, the episodes are like the beggining and already at the end. But anyway Everybody Hates Chris is the genre of Malcolm in the Middle. Quite nice.

Cya.
 

tjpeople

Site Administrator
Staff member
However we got CobraBK rips, I'll leave 2 pic's http://i38.tinypic.com/2r4pq89.jpg / http://i38.tinypic.com/34790gk.jpg

The resolution is, 624 * 352, pretty good, the quality is very good actually, CobraBK rips are awesome since he's the only one who, released MITM eps with High Quality.

I'm afraid CobraBK recordings are nothing special. The season 3 miss the cold opener.

The episodes we have here in our torrent are the best around.


  • Season 1 - is from the DVD. 4:3 (fullscreen). I'm unsure if it was filmed widescreen, and whether its being broadcast anyone in widescreen.
  • Season 2 - Is from SKYONE, widescreen, very good quality
  • Season 3 - Is mainly from StarWorld 4:3 good quality
  • Season 4 - Is from SKYONE, widescreen, very good quality
  • Season 5 - Is from FOX, widescreen, very good quality (Block Party is 4:3)
  • Season 6 - Is from FOX, widescreen, very good quality
  • Season 7 - Is from FOX, widescreen, very good quality
All the episodes in our torrent include cold openers. And I'm 99% sure all are non-syndicated (meaning they are not missing short scenes).

The pictures you show us are from season 4, the same copy as we have in our torrent, but they were not originally recorded by CobraBK.
 
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