At 6:00 PM -0800 12/6/2010, Jonas Lopez wrote:
Internet video sourced and display on G4
[from below] can my Mac G4 show TV from Goggle or whom ever? What do
I need to try?
You need to have:
1) An IP address that geo-locates to an area (country, state, town,
etc) "authorized" to receive the content. If you're not in an
"authorized" location, you can often use a proxy - but then you run
afoul of (2).
2) A relatively fast *stable* Internet connection.
3) An ISP that doesn't have usage caps, secret or otherwise.
4) A computer that's able to play the latest Flash and h.264 video codecs.
Santa went shopping at Best Buy and saw Goggle Internet Television tag line.
I try to keep up but what is this?
Yet-another YouTube type service. Users and other providers can
upload videos. Us peons can then view (stream) them ... rarely in
full screen, usually with commercials or other non-skippable content.
The "boon" of Google TV (over YouTube - another Google property) is
that they're working on getting the big tv network providers to offer
content.
So I naturally Goggled it and sure enough apparently we can now
watch TV using the Internet as the source. No more rabbit or mouse
ears, humdrum.
Not really. With your TV/vcr/dvr, you're used to a wide range of big
screen content that you can pause, ff, rew, etc. These online
services just don't offer that. The selection is limited. The
streaming is often crap - stuttering, and too low a resolution to be
full screen on your Mac (if the player used even permits full
screen!). And often they block the ff and skip functions, to force
you to watch their commercials. Overall, it's a very poor experience.
IMO, at this time, the only way to really cut the wire is to put on
the eye patch and go pirate. The content just isn't available thru
legit channels. Go torrents! heh. And even if the content is
available on a legit site, the torrent rip will probably be higher
quality!
FWIW,
- Dan.
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