Comment Re:Your only alternative? (Score 1) 691
I enjoy "The Office" and "Heroes" quite a bit. The people working on those shows do a great job and deserve to be well compensated for it. However, compensating people for a delivery method that is both painful and distasteful isn't something in my book of 'Smart Things To Do'. It's like paying someone to punch you in the face. NO Thanks.
I like to watch video, listen to audio and so forth on my terms, in the manner, time and space that makes me happy. I'm not pwn3d whenever I can avoid it. Bless the webtubes, they have broken the shackles that bind us. I really dont' feel bad about 'stealing' because the shows are already free! You can stream them from NBC's site, or even get them in delicious highest quality OTA HD(!) As long as you don't mind being treated to a healthy dose of the Ludovico Trea tment. Thank you folks who pick up the yummy HD and encode it on the machines and share on the networks we pay for.
BTW, I've purchased several hundred dollars of video from the ITS. I've got a compulsion to try to 'do the best thing' whenever possible. I felt that it was the almost perfect compromise. Even though $2 a show is way too much to charge. We've all been waiting for a price reduction, $5 is TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE!
So, lemme see... What's a good alternative? I use firefox to search tvrss.net and click to send to miro which in turn monitors the feed and regularly downloads new episodes into a directory watched by Visualhub and then re-encoded to H.264/AAC and finally exported directly into iTunes, then synced my AppleTV, iPhone, iPod and also my Xbox360 in the bedrooom (through Connect 360 from Nullriver software, who so kindly has provided the community with the AppTapp iPhone installer!)
And that's the crux, not precious IP, not ROI for a massive and archaic delivery infrastructure. I will NOT exchange my freedom of choice and the pursuit of my happiness to be the pawn of the media megalopoly. I spend lots and lots of money as a consumer, it's not like I'm not buying shit. So, don't force me to watch commercials and force me to be seated in front of your crap spigot in rapt attention. Watching your shows is just a thing I do, not something that does me.
I like to watch video, listen to audio and so forth on my terms, in the manner, time and space that makes me happy. I'm not pwn3d whenever I can avoid it. Bless the webtubes, they have broken the shackles that bind us. I really dont' feel bad about 'stealing' because the shows are already free! You can stream them from NBC's site, or even get them in delicious highest quality OTA HD(!) As long as you don't mind being treated to a healthy dose of the Ludovico Trea tment. Thank you folks who pick up the yummy HD and encode it on the machines and share on the networks we pay for.
BTW, I've purchased several hundred dollars of video from the ITS. I've got a compulsion to try to 'do the best thing' whenever possible. I felt that it was the almost perfect compromise. Even though $2 a show is way too much to charge. We've all been waiting for a price reduction, $5 is TOTALLY FUCKING INSANE!
So, lemme see... What's a good alternative? I use firefox to search tvrss.net and click to send to miro which in turn monitors the feed and regularly downloads new episodes into a directory watched by Visualhub and then re-encoded to H.264/AAC and finally exported directly into iTunes, then synced my AppleTV, iPhone, iPod and also my Xbox360 in the bedrooom (through Connect 360 from Nullriver software, who so kindly has provided the community with the AppTapp iPhone installer!)
And that's the crux, not precious IP, not ROI for a massive and archaic delivery infrastructure. I will NOT exchange my freedom of choice and the pursuit of my happiness to be the pawn of the media megalopoly. I spend lots and lots of money as a consumer, it's not like I'm not buying shit. So, don't force me to watch commercials and force me to be seated in front of your crap spigot in rapt attention. Watching your shows is just a thing I do, not something that does me.
