TV Alternative (Was: Re: OT: TV delivery alternatives (was: DirecTivo vs. 'New Direct TV DVR'?))

Steven W. Orr steveo at syslang.net
Tue May 22 13:46:52 EDT 2007


On Tuesday, May 22nd 2007 at 13:39 -0400, quoth Mark Komarinski:

=>On 05/22/2007 12:21 PM, Travis Roy wrote:
=>>>   Internet distribution (the legal kind) is becoming more and more
=>>> viable all the time.  It's not there yet, but I'm watching closely (no
=>>> pun intended).
=>>>     
=>>
=>> Could you share some of your sources? Most of the stuff I've found is  
=>> either not cost effective or horrible quality.
=>>   
=>NBC has a bunch of their series online via flash (with the right
=>hardware/software combination, you can download episodes).  It's not
=>HDTV quality, but it's not Real[buffering...]Player.  I just pulled up
=>last night's Heroes and it works fine from Firefox.

And it repeats on Fri at 7 on the SciFi channel. :-)

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