Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-08 Thread Martin Airs
On 01/06/2010 02:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-08 Thread Michal
On 08/01/2010 15:48, Martin Airs wrote: On 01/06/2010 02:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-07 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 08:22 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Thanks for your response. I guess iPlayer is exactly what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it is restricted to UK residents. I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-07 Thread Mark Mahabir
2010/1/6 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net: Bryn M. Reeves wrote: I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do that without using up all his bandwidth? It would be nice if there was a way to start with a UK IP address, and

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-07 Thread David Burns
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:57 PM, john wendel jwende...@comcast.net wrote: Personally, I just download the few shows that I want to watch. They're all on the net. Whoops, I just confessed to a crime on a public forum. Most are now available in some legal form, pretend that's what you meant. --

TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour of the (Fedora) computer. -- Timothy Murphy

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 01/06/2010 02:26 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Ed Greshko
Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour of the (Fedora) computer.

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Rich Bishop
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:48:19PM +, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: It's only ITV that is using silverlight or whatever it's called - and that's OK because all their output is junk anyway! :-D In case something non-junk comes on - the STV catchup player ( http://video.stv.tv/bc/ ) is flash, and

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread William Case
Hi Tim; On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 15:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ed Greshko wrote: I've read lots of online postings about people who are apparently watching TV on their computers, but I haven't seen a concrete description of what to do. I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour of the (Fedora) computer.

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Rich Bishop wrote: In case something non-junk comes on - the STV catchup player ( http://video.stv.tv/bc/ ) is flash, and so can be used with Fedora. Thanks, that looks interesting ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bryn M. Reeves wrote: I'd love to see a posting from someone who has abandoned the traditional TV set in favour of the (Fedora) computer. I've not owned a broadcast TV in more than 7 years. For a lot of that time, I just didn't watch the stuff. Since the BBC iPlayer (I'm in the UK) moved

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Alan Cox
I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do that without using up all his bandwidth? For low quality probably - or I imagine you could just buy yourself a cheap UK hosting package with cgi and add yourself some kind of

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread Ed Greshko
Timothy Murphy wrote: I looked at these (well, hulu.com seems restricted to the US), but they both seem to be offering videos on line, rather than TV. Well, TV is certainly going to be regional. So, when you ask about watching TV you'll also have to include where you are and what you're

Re: TV over the internet

2010-01-06 Thread john wendel
On 01/06/2010 03:21 PM, Alan Cox wrote: I did wonder if I could use my son, in Cardiff, to re-send the stream over to me in Dublin (or Italy)? Could I do that without using up all his bandwidth? For low quality probably - or I imagine you could just buy yourself a cheap UK hosting package with