Submission + - If we all used computers to watch TV... (zona-m.net)
MarcoF writes: Here in Italy there is a lot of noise these days about the switch from analog to digital TV, which is... the same old, dumb, trashy thing, just digital. Last week I used a real declaration of an Italian Minister and the answer from a journalist (see the Fine Article) as an example of what could happen if everybody, not just geeks, stopped to bother about digital TV decoders in and by themselves, and started to hook them to computers instead of TVs. Is what I suggest in that article (software used to check from home what politician say, in real time from official sources!) already happening somewhere, on a scale large enough to have already made a difference? I would also like to see mockups like the one I included in the article, made from real TV shows from other countries. to prove how general the suggestion is.