Many laptops these days have HDMI ports built in! It saves the expense of having to buy a separate set top box!
--Manny On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:58 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah I think that any online video service that is not well-integrated > with off-the-shelf set top boxes is going to have a limited audience. > > For most people watching movies or shows on the computer is about as > likely as reading a book on the computer. > > Our setup for television is an HD Tivo using the OTA digital tuner. I > have UVerse, broadband connection only to get network access. Then for > movies we use a combination of Netflix through snail mail, streaming > Netflix through Tivo and Amazon Unbox downloads. > > That ends up about $50/month total for TV + Internet, viewable on, > well, the TV, and it's way more TV than we can (or should) watch. > Given the Netflix snail mail aspect, we can watch any movie we want, > but most of what we want is available on demand or recorded onto the > Tivo OTA. We have to wait for cable series for a little bit (Dexter, > for example) but that isn't a big problem. > > FWIW I have tried MythTV in the past, but I'm not a fan. I had issues > keeping the client and server in sync, and they would break the > protocol on me. Also, it was generally crashy and my wife has NO > tolerance for any system that will lose her shows. And then there's > hardware... using a general purpose computer for video throws into > relief any and all hardware performance issues. I'd rather have a > purpose built engineered system for video. > > That might make me a candidate for a "off the shelf" MythTV box if > Tivo ever gets excessively evil or bites the dust. But for now they > add a lot of value by tight integration of Amazon and Netflix. > > -- John. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
