We dropped off the cable box today at the Time Warner Store on 96th and Broadway. It took about 5 minutes to cancel our service, saving us something like $100 a month (less the $17 cost of HuluPlus and Netflix and maybe MLB.tv at some point).
Lately we've been getting used to watching a lot of content via Netflix.
Hulu we haven't used quite as much.
I'm still tweaking my computer and TVersity to get it to stream well. I managed to watch the first episode of Breaking Bad using the on-the-fly transcode feature of TVersity. Unfortunately I had to pause a few times to let it buffer but the picture quality was generally passable and it did work. Right now it won't recognize some file formats. I'm looking into changing the media player to VLC which handles most formats really nicely.
PlayOn.tv's trial subscription failed and right now I'm not that jazzed about paying them a license fee. We'll see what I can get with what I have but there is, so far, an impressive array of content we can access at this point in time.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
You give me the idol, I hand you the whip!
So it's been a while since we've checked in.
Recent updates:
1) TV HAS ARRIVED
2) Canceled cable tonight! The cord is officially cut.
3) Started messing around with some internet viewing options. So far Netflix via the TV is working great. So is HuluPlus. For a grand total of $18 a month we're awash in streaming content.
4) Purchased an HD antenna- verdict so far: reasonably cool. 38 channels detected (but some are repeats and many are in Korean or Spanish- maybe without cable I'll also get rosetta stone and learn Korean and Spanish! I need to try connecting the cable wire to the TV to see if we get any channels that way and what the quality is. The over the air channels are acceptable in quality. Pretty good HD, actually.
5) Finally got TVersity working - at least a little. I need to tweak settings and figure out why it's inconsistent.
6) Messed around with PlayOn- this has promise but I need to get a license for it since my trial expired but I'm going to explore options one at a time.
The experiment, as of tonight, is in full force. More updates to come!
Recent updates:
1) TV HAS ARRIVED
2) Canceled cable tonight! The cord is officially cut.
3) Started messing around with some internet viewing options. So far Netflix via the TV is working great. So is HuluPlus. For a grand total of $18 a month we're awash in streaming content.
4) Purchased an HD antenna- verdict so far: reasonably cool. 38 channels detected (but some are repeats and many are in Korean or Spanish- maybe without cable I'll also get rosetta stone and learn Korean and Spanish! I need to try connecting the cable wire to the TV to see if we get any channels that way and what the quality is. The over the air channels are acceptable in quality. Pretty good HD, actually.
5) Finally got TVersity working - at least a little. I need to tweak settings and figure out why it's inconsistent.
6) Messed around with PlayOn- this has promise but I need to get a license for it since my trial expired but I'm going to explore options one at a time.
The experiment, as of tonight, is in full force. More updates to come!
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