As y'all know, I've been looking at my expenses and weighing what I'll be doing once I get a job and apartment in terms of services. Part of that is determining the whole TV thing. Reality is that there are traditionally 3 choices: the local cable provider, Verizon FiOS if it's available in your area, or one of the satellite providers. Over the past couple years the tv networks have finally started to get it. The old business model is dead. Service providers are a dying breed. They serve only as middlemen at this point. With the continued evolution of websites like Hulu, which let's be honest, started because hackers and tv-links thought (accurately) that on demand internet streaming is the future of TV. NBC and Fox have collaborated on Hulu, and all the major networks seem to have an equivolent site.
This is fantastic, only there is one problem. THEY EPISODES UP 8 DAYS LATER! Seriously, what the fuck? That's after the next episode airs! Do they not realize what that does? You miss a broadcast episode and you have to go pirate it to catch up! YOU IDIOTS! You get to put targetted advertising in, and you're missing the boat! Or you have to pay like $3 for the show on itunes. It's kind of ridiculous. Defeats the whole point. Once they get the Simulcast going then they'll be onto something.
Until that point, it's still up in the air in my view. Another alternative is the Slingbox. I've been using it since 2007, when I bought it so I could watch TV while making phone calls at work. I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to install it at their parent's house and streaming it over their broadband network. Then all you gotta pay for is the internets.
With Netflix now available over xbox 360 and other systems, its only a matter of time until services like Hulu are available in that way as well. Combo TiVo, Modem, Netflix/Hulu box? You bet it'll happen. Just a matter of when. TV is dead my friends. Long live TV!
No comments:
Post a Comment