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commandN 163 – techTIPS: Surfing on your TV

The first decabled commandN segment was released yesterday on our new commandN.tv site and we thought we should also include it here (my decabled techTIPS is the middle segment). See the commandN.tv page for this ep for links.

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7 Responses to “commandN 163 – techTIPS: Surfing on your TV”

  1. Marina says:
    January 7, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    I’ve definitely for an alternative solution.

    Cable is expensive. I have yet to subscribe to cable though I may have to if my digital converter box can’t pick up any channels (I’m still on analog TV) since rabbit ear reception in SF is horrible (at least where I live) when things cut over in a few weeks.

    I mostly watch broadcast TV, and cable shows such as Dexter, the Wire, Saving Grace or Deadwood on DVD via my netflix account or loans from the public library.

  2. admin says:
    January 8, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Marina: Would love to know what happens to your signal when things cut over. Public library is a good angle too. I’m curious to see what the real costs are going through some pay services too – certainly will be doing some calculations with iTunes numbers in a future post (might be a good poll thing).

    Thanks for commenting,

    Jeff

  3. WTL says:
    January 9, 2009 at 1:11 am

    About two and a half years ago, my wife and I cut our cable. We get all of our entertainment either through podcasts, iTunes,or on DVD.

    It’s been easy enough and we really enjoy what we’re getting online (legitimately). Make it easy and we’re there. ;-)

  4. Jay Santos says:
    January 9, 2009 at 9:19 am

    I use a program called “PLAYON” to bring HULU, Netlfix, CBS, ESPN, YOUTUBE to my XBOX360 and PS3. They will be supporting the Wii very soon.

    What the program does it connects to HULU or Netflix encodes FLASH to MPEG2 on the fly so it can stream to XBOX360 or PS3.

    http://www.themediamall.com/playon

    PlayOn enables consumers who own a PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, or HP MediaSmart TV to access content from sites including Netflix, Hulu, CBS, YouTube, ESPN and more on their television. We have been testing PlayOn Beta for a number of months now, and the fully featured release will be coming shortly!

    We will also be adding support for Nintendo Wii in early 2009. Stay tuned!

  5. Jay Santos says:
    January 9, 2009 at 9:52 am

    http://www.joost.com/ has shows from CBS and CW that you can watch for free. Joost is a lot like HULU.

    All the networks now have TV shows that you can watch on their web site. But a lot of them have bad flash players.

    FOX you have to get out of full screen just to pause seems really weird since they also post their shows on HULU.com. Also on FOX and ABC you have to install a plugin from their website to get the shows to play.

    By forcing you to install plugin from their website it makes it a lot harder for programs like PLAYON and BOXEE to stream those shows.

    I know a lot of people from Canada and Europe hate HULU because that webite does not work in the countries they live in. That is because different companies have the distribution rights to those shows.

    In Canada CityTV any show they have it is up to them to distribute those shows in that country.

    Do not believe me?

    SONY movies on HD-DVD

    FANTASTIC FOUR [GERMAN HD DVD RELEASE]

    http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/fantastic-four-german-release-p-12469.html?osCsid=9a1f6b6150913e3520a98619b49100a2

    Could only be release in the USA with Blu-Ray. Outside the USA a different story.

    FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER [GERMAN HD DVD RELEASE]

    http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/fantastic-four-rise-silver-surfer-german-release-p-13265.html?osCsid=9a1f6b6150913e3520a98619b49100a2

    You can find a lot more FOX, Sony movies on HD-DVD that are imports on this website.

  6. admin says:
    January 11, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    WTL: Sounds like a good approach – feel free to let us know what/where you think some of the best online content is!

  7. Cathrine Panfilov says:
    March 25, 2010 at 4:33 am

    This has to be the best tv show ever…

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