They do. It is called Hulu.
My two complaints with hulu is:
1) Flash
2) They do not save the first couple eps of the first season of X show. If i'm interested in a new show I do not want to watch the current ep. I want to watch the first 4 eps then decide. I'm not going to buy a dvd box set for a show I've never seen before.
So yah BT ftw but Hulu is far better than nothing.
Only the first cablecard is free. Every one after that is $2.05 a month for the same TV. If comcast finds out your broadcasting your content to other TVs they'll tac on another $6 a month for each TV that uses a cable card on top of the $2.05
My solution is a bit cheaper and arguably immoral.
What I do is setup an RSS feed to the TV shows I like and have them auto download. From there I watch everything on my TV/Computer/... all 720p and all drm free so I can do whatever I want with it. Also, most come in before the shows actually air here.
It isn't that I'm not paying for Cable TV, because I am. I'm paying for the shows I get. I just don't like the idea of not being able to do what I want to do with the content I'm paying for. Maybe one day cable cards will not be so restrictive and then I'll consider another alternative.
atm I'm quite happy using RSS to auto download everything I want.
How does playon compare to Plex/XBMC?
This doesn't play live TV?
Does it have an advantage over Plex, XBMC, Boxee,
HDFury
The idea of capturing VGA at 1080p sounds nearly impossible or extremely pricey.
It has been 2+ years now of them saying they will release said card. I gave up waiting.
Do most cable boxes output at hd component or only sd component?
Not only that but $250 seems a bit pricy just to get live premium channels to mythtv in HD. There has got to be a better way.
I like SageTV except that I have an all-in-wonder HD and sageTV only sees it as an analog device. Ironically, I only want to capture digital.
I tried Snapstream hoping I could stream live tv uncompressed over the lan to my macbook. Apparently this feature once existed but they removed it to charge for their link program. Unfortunately, it is windows only.
At the high school I went to we had a 3D animation class running xsi softimage. It was a fun class and I eventually became the TA. I then discovered that all of the computers in the entire school district had been wired using fiber underground. This wasn't 5000 computers, but still it was a good 800 or so unused. For our 3D class most computers would be set to render and they would stay on all night. The next morning (usually over the weekend) we would come back to see if our work was done.
I had the genius idea to install the headless xsi renderfarm backend software (can't remember the name of it) on all of the computer in the district. This way the rendering could be greatly accelerated over the school district. The problem is the education license of softimage is everything the full retail version has with a limitation on multi computer rendering. After I ran tests on the software for a week planning to streamline the software into every computer, the school got a call. The xsi people called letting us know of our license restrictions. Because of this, the plan never went through. However, I never would of in a million years have foreseen a consequence like being charged 1mil because of the pissy school district.
Sometimes in the IT world when you think outside the box and it does genuinely help it only comes back to bite you in the ass regardless. *sigh*
I could be wrong. I only speak from light personal experience but if you set the program to run at idle priority via windows (not inside the program) it really does not slow down the machine, even a single core machine. However, it will rarely run at 100% cpu either.
What one needs to do is set the program to bootup from a
In another news source it says he was given explicit permission to run the software.
I have a feeling none of us know the whole story.
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