I guess I am a bit ahead of the curve!
A couple months ago at my household we finally canceled cable and
TiVo. For a while now we have downloaded everything through RSS
feed-based subscription to the programs using uTorrent (microTorrent).
The spare laptop that does the downloading has 750 GB of external hard
disk, a TV-out, and lives under the TV (space prev occupied by the
VCR, then TiVo). It is remote controlled from another laptop using
VNC. Playback using VLAN.
As a bonus, we are saving a lot of time that would be spent ripping
our movie and TV series DVDs*, by exploiting others who have already
done the work and made it available for us to download!
So we can watch what we want, when we want, from a menu of all
available choices, without fussing with boxes and discs, and dvd
trays, broadcast schedules, or any quaint ideas about how long we can
retain a recording before we watch it (we still have 2 final seasons
of battlestar galactica to get to)
The rips are super compressed, rather low quality, but quite good
enough on our big analog CRT TV for an addict to get his or her fix.
--James
On 12/10/09, Owen Densmore <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> Yet another TV viewer tosses cable and all the rest, and converts to
> internet TV.
>
> Lots of details on how its done, including Hulu, Boxee, Netflix,
> iTunes, Joost, and others:
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html>
> When we recently had our old TV die, we bought a plasma HD tv, and
> believe it or not, it can stream video from amazon, netflix, and other
> sources. The HDMI standard is also making it easier to switch between
> devices .. it recognizes when you turn on the DVD, for example, and
> switches the TV input to the correct HTMI input.
>
> Its still not completely there, but I think we're headed toward a
> phase transition. The networks are even happy -- they are getting
> their media out there via even more carriers, not just satellite and
> cable.
>
> -- Owen
>
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