What Marc said. We haven't had television for six years now, and haven't particularly missed it, but I notice that when my better half and I are at someone's place and the TV is on, we watch it with some fascination, and also, with some irritation, especially during primetime nights, when the content of many shows is drowned out by multiple commercials, usually at twice the volume of the actual show.
That said, I enjoy NFL football during the season, and we both like the History Channel, PBS some of the time, a cooking show or two, etc. I've been looking into various hw and sw scenarios and would prefer to go open source, if possible, but have been around the mulberry bush enough years and with enough IT sites to become somewhat o.s. agnostic; if the tool works and it isn't too heavily freighted with Evil, then we will tend to use it. Meanwhile, we've been playing around with Hulu, Netflix, and the Amazon streaming, and also looking at a bigger screen at some point hooked up to some sort of media box and being able to stream things from the computers to the big screen wirelessly or otherwise. But I would also be interested in working with some sort of antenna arrangement to bring in whatever we can get from the "regular" airwaves and channels. So this discussion is actually on-topic. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Marc Farnum Rendino <[email protected]>wrote: > FWIW: This is fascinating - on more than one level. :) >
