This week’s commandN has a little price comparison and other analysis of the costs of purchasing TV online (using iTunes and Amazon.com as the base prices). You can download the show notes from the commandN Ep. 165 page (upper right).
Cutting the Cable Cord
with commandN.tv’s Jeff MacArthur
Blogroll
Polls
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Free Xbox Live Gold on Zune Marketplace comes to Xbox 360 by Andre Barriault
- Chee on Amazon Video on Demand now in HD!
- Stefan Kinville on Apple Tablet: “Text” Podcasts & the Apple TV Connection
- Travis Galanti on All Your Entertainment in One (X)Box by Andre Barriault
- Sheryl Kazmierczak on All Your Entertainment in One (X)Box by Andre Barriault
BTW - our apologies to anyone who has posted a comment with multiple links and not seen it show up. We had comment moderation on but weren’t getting the notices. All these (very useful, really) comments have now been approved.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Jeff
Great episode. I like the cost analysis. I look at it a little differently. In today’s fast paced world we have to to execute thing intentionally. What I mean is I will sit down and open hulu to watch Prison Break intentionally. What I don’t do is sit there and mindlessly watch TV all day. One cost more than the other too. I am getting rid of my cable once my contract is up. Depending how you look at it you don’t have to pay for any content to watch most of it legally. It just depends on how savy you are with a computer. Again, awesome job…looking forward to what comes next.
A good list of online content:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=2946
If you can’t see the list let me know and I will try to post it.
Also, have you heard of TVersity?
Just a suggestion. Cutting the cable doesn’t mean having to do all your TV watching via online methods - how about covering good old antenna reception? It’s an interesting topic with the digital switchover and HDTV.. How to get free over the air signals in this digital and HDTV landscape.. Found this site as a start: http://www.remotecentral.com/hdtv/
You guys need to show off PlayON software from http://themediamall.com/ also talk about http://tversity.com/
If finally taking the plunge from a 4:3 to a 16:9, you might want to use the Screen Comparison calculator at http://tv09.org to figure out how big you should go.
Very handy for helping out parents
[NOTE: Admin is now Jeff - yay, I can use my own name
]
Neondog82: Yeah, I think we’re on the same page about costing out the benefit to not wasting additional time watching stuff you don’t want to. Great link too - thanks so much! Haven’t used TVersity but have looked at it a couple of times - anyone a TVersity user that can let us know what they think of it?
anony mouse: It’s true, anony, we shouldn’t ignore over-the-air content, but I can’t say I’d be the best one to ask about that. Halifax isn’t that big a city and it’s far enough away from any major broadcasting centers that I don’t get a lot of options over-the-air (but that doesn’t mean other readers won’t!). Thanks for the link.
Jay Santos: WIll definitely try out PlayON - looks cool. And it seems you’ve been parallel surfing with Neondog r.e. TVersity
.
schnoggo: That’s a cool little “app” - it is a hard thing to explain to some people, for sure.
good good?this post deserves nothing ?hahaha just joking
?nice post 