[opendtv] Re: Cable cord cutting: not ready for prime time
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:30:08 -0600
Adam Steinberg wrote:
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> Watch the 6 minute video, pretty illuminating.
That's one for Craig to watch, especially. Note: people want to vegge out when
they watch TV. They don't want their TV experience to become a PC experience.
They don't even necessarily want to choose from a menu. They want live streams
of familiar stuff they can just watch.
One of the objections was bad broadband connections. Ironically, perhaps, my
own Internet TV experience was initially very much like that. "Wait for
download." Because Verizon picked the month or six weeks spanning the holidays
to give us abysmal ADSL service. Truly pathetic service. Since then, after New
Year's Day, the problems seem to have been solved. So that one objection should
not be considered inevitable, perhaps.
Not many live TV streams exist, true enough, except for foreign news networks.
I'm happy to go to those, if US news networks want to remain walled in gardens.
No problem at all. Happy to oblige.
Hulu is a great addition to OTA live TV. So are the individual network web
sites. If there's nothing in my OTA-only PVR, I can now browse the Hulu movies
or watch network series episodes of shows I haven't been following. Very nice.
Even without depending on any of those limited Internet TV schemes, like Apple
TV and the rest, the user interface for Internet TV can be very easy, actually.
Turns out, once you've set up your favorite sites in the browser, all the TV
sites I use can be browsed with the mouse alone. It's very easy. You boot up,
type in your password assuming you have set one up, and then put the remote
keyboard off to a side. The rest is done with the mouse - no more cumbersome
than a typical TV remote. Just slide the mouse on the couch next to you.
Bert
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