I'm downloading a movie from YouTube right this minute...
It's an old Angela Lansbury film called "A Life at Stake" (1954) 480p
Download in Firefox using the free add-on DownloadHelper. View the .flv file using the free VLC player.
Other than for sports, I rarely watch TV anymore, the Internet is my TV.
He’s right. I haven’t watched cable, satellite, or broadcast TV in over 7 years.
In the next few years, PoE (IEEE 802.3af) TV will replace regular TV.
The other thing many people use YouTube for is music. Almost every song you can think of is on YouTube. The only thing that spoils it are the ads.
Google must take a TON of advertising revenue off that.
It’s dead, it just hasn’t stopped moving yet.
I’m about 90% certain I’m cutting the cord next winter, when my existing contract obligations to DirecTV runs out. I’ll go with an OTA for live events (specifically sports) and just go the Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/iTunes route for those things that actually interest me.
I gave up on all modern/current programming, other than a smattering of news and weather. Gave up on cable and the networks. It was just too much of a noxious open-sewer. It became no longer worth the effort to descend down into that repellent stench in order to find two or three agreeable shows.
But I do resort to dvd’s of older shows, which at least seem to coincide with my values, and don’t leave me with constant shudders of revulsion. Old westerns, comedies, war dramas, etc. In fact, at least 95% of what I watch are such dvd’s. I’ve happily left all modern-tv behind. To hell with that sleazy, degenerate crap! And to hell with the leftist Hollyweird scum that produces it. Hope they all go broke and die.
I am an early adopter, I stopped watching tv in the mid 90s, got rid of it entirely in 2004.
What about the millions of passive couch turds who don’t know how to do anything but turn on the TV and flip the channels? What will they do?
Will they suddenly turn to interesting and informative videos? Will they stop watching ugly menopausal low information women talk about inane subjects? (the View)
Will they stop watching shows dedicated to glorifying irresponsible impregnation? (who be yo daddy shows)
Will they stop watching shows that worship deceit and infidelity? (soap operas, desperate housewives)
Will they stop watching shows that drag heterosexual relations through the mud and through pig $hit? (two and 1 / 2 men)
We are in deep $hit.
52" I-Pads & Tablets on the wall?
We finally cut the cord and got rid of cable last month. $100 a month was just too hard to justify.
What I would like is a service that allows me to stream a movie of my choice for a fee. Netflix streaming is great for TV shows. The selection for movies, however, is terrible. Why won’t the movie studios make older movies available to stream for a buck or two?
I disagree. I have the music channel on all day long.
If I didn’t have kids, I would kill cable. I have more tv’s than computers. Once they are out of the house, I will kill cable and watch what I want, when I want.
1984 version TV coming soon, unless....
Not in my house
I dumped TV in 1997. Frankly, with what is available on the internet it’s not even a big deal any more. But it sure opened my eyes regarding all televised news.
Local news casters talk to you as if you are in 7th grade. And national news looks for the visual stuff, ignoring things that matter. And Fox is NOT conservative.
I'm downloading a movie from YouTube right this minute...
It's an old Angela Lansbury film called "A Life at Stake" (1954) 480p
Download in Firefox using the free add-on DownloadHelper. View the .flv file using the free VLC player.
With Netflix and online Video-on-Demand, I estimate 1/3 of my viewing is via Internet.
Cable just jumped their price $10 a month. Stupid, stupid, stupid! They are pricing themselves out of the market. Or maybe they see the handwriting on the wall and are trying to bank all they can before they go the way of the typewriter.
Ya’ll realize after a certain proportion of folks switch to the Internet for their video entertainment, companies will begin limiting the amount of data to subscribers, right?
Same here, since Obama was elected the second time, we’ve turned off the TV. “They” lied to us, they don’t cover the news, and the “comedy” sitcoms are totally boring. I get a bigger kick out of watching Hawaii-5-oh...from a simpler, cleaner time, good acting, great scenery...and I’m watching it “free”...along with many other shows of that era. BTW...my CNN addicted lib across the street today said she hadn’t heard about the Gosnel trial when I asked her about it. This woman was a school teacher for years and “researches” everything...but if CNN is all you watch...(I’m still shaking my head).
The airwaves are free to the extent that a broadcaster only has to push its signal out once for all to receive.
Streaming video is a pull model, where all the consumers compete for traffic through a finite pipeline of coaxial cable or DSL. If too many people stream at once, the whole system clogs up and bogs down.
Are we there yet?
-PJ