This is a completion of a post that I started in March of 2006:<\/p>\n
Then:
\nSo.. I bought a shiny new Intel Mac Mini solely for use as a set top box. First of all, I love it! Second, a lot of work is needed for this to compete with TiVo, MyTH or even Windows Media Center.<\/p>\n
So here is what I have, 1 Dual Core Mac Mini with SuperDrive and a great EyeTV tuner\/PVR device…<\/p>\n
Now: What makes this truly extraordinary (at least in disruption of the pattern of my life):
\nAt some point last year, the cable was unhooked and never got hooked up again (except for about 15 minutes during the 2008 election). This isn’t to say that I don’t watch TV anymore, I do, I watch Heroes, Lost, ER and a bunch of movies. The difference is that I watch it on my terms, not the terms of the networks. I get none of this TV from regular cable, instead I watch these shows through their respective websites (NBC, ABC) or through Hulu and now NetFlix’s online on-demand service (which is soooooooo much better than DVDs via mail as I don’t know what I want to watch next week today).<\/p>\n
No longer do I come home and zone out to reruns. No longer to I switch on the TV just to have something to do.. <\/p>\n
A couple of additional thoughts:
\nI am pretty sure that scheduled TV will always have a place and people will always want programming in that form. I don’t think TV will go away (at least any time soon). I do think that (if the cable industry doesn’t buy our government) that it will eventually subsumed into the internet (despite all of the fear mongering about clogging the tubes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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