How I watch TV:Unlimited ADSL2+PS3 Media Server / LaptopBeing that the missus and I are rarely at home at night we don’t have the ability to watch TV live, although I don’t think we would anyway, renovations and reruns of Bones isn’t really our thing.We download everything, even (although extremely rarely because of obvious reasons) Australian productions.I watch alot of iView, the service is fantastic and using a PS3 as a media server it is integrated into the UI of the playstation console.If there was a Hulu or Netflix service in Australia that actually matched watch our overseas friends and enemies have I would pay for it in a heartbeat.It’s somewhat tricky watching a show like Breaking Bad or (especially) Lost live in Australia and also having access to the Internet as spoilers are everwhere, even when you are not actively looking for them, I remember theNew York times talked about the ending of the Sopranos on the front page the day after it aired on HBO.Breaking Bad is halfway through it’s season in the US and still two weeks away from airing in Australia, it seems like a copout to Australian viewers, especially Foxtel/Austar suscribers who pay for the service.This talk of Fetch TV and the Telstra T-Box I don’t think will every truely get up.As people are now getting a faster and hopefully cheaper Internet service, surely the posibility of a descent television on demand service comes into play, I know that JB Hi-fi are going to trial a service, but I’m not sure if I am sure they have the background needed to bring the goods.We seem to be in a special time for Television where we have programming now that would have been thought impossible or dangerous to produce, (BB, Louie, Madmen, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc)I don’t mind watching advertising, when I watch the Daily Show / Colbert Report I do it online on their website and the episodes are full of adverts, often showing every 4-5 minutes, it pays for the show (and bandwidth)Enough rambling for me, back to work.Keep up the good work guys.
Posted by Lesa on April 23, 2012 at 2:20 AM under
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