Posted on 12/18/2013 4:37:02 PM PST by Chickensoup
ChromeCast sounds pretty cool
I watch occasional TV, and wear earmuffs for streaming.
That way, I don’t make a mess of the pillow when my brains stream out my ear.
:-)
too bad there is no conservative streaming channel on there
Timewarner is offering 16mb for $35/month here in Southern California. Enough to stream several shows at once. many free programs to watch.
You can use a laptop or windows 8 tablet, plug in a hdmi cable or better yet use wifi if the tv has it. Use it as a remote. Open Firefox browser and multiple tabs for the different sites that have tv or movies you want to watch. You can have multiple streams of shows running if you like to have multiple shows to watch at the same time. Kinda like your tv now.
If you use an android tablet you have to go into settings to allow 3rd party installs like Flash. Using Windows pc you may have to go into the Display settings and extend the desktop then drag the browser to the tv set.
Netflix
Amazon
HULU
Pandora
Crackle
Youtube
The network sites. ABC, NBC, CBS etc.
Some more sites:
http://www.technologyraise.com/2013/08/top-15-websites-to-watch-tv-series.html
http://www.technologyraise.com/2013/05/top-15-websites-to-watch-free-movies.html
TV Guide
http://www.tv.com/listings/
Warner shows from 1920 onwards
http://instant.warnerarchive.com
Record shows
http://www.playlater.tv
What is Roku -: http://www.roku.com/meet-roku
Roku channels
http://www.roku.com/channels#!browse/movies-and-tv/by-popular
I just switched from Blockbuster for DVD & BluRay discs to NetFlix to get more streaming titles. I stupidly thought they had their entire catalog available for streaming...little did I know that maybe only 5% of their catalog can be streamed. I’ve got the one-disc at a time option, too.
We’ve been Amazon Prime subscribers from long before they tossed in free video streaming. We bought Prime to save on shipping fees, so the video streaming was a bonus. The content library is just so-so. The UI is just plain awful and clunky.
My favorite is Apple TV — best encoding quality, best UI. But buying TV seasons for $20 to $40 is a killer. Also, I ran out of storage space on my 5 year old MacBook Pro, so had to offload already-watched videos to an external 1 TB drive. I use TuneSpan for that. It is a SUPER utility that seamlessly splits your iTunes library across multiple drives.
A good friend is an exec at Roku, but I don’t have their box yet. I’ve got streaming on the Panny TV, on the BluRay player, on the Tivo, and on the Apple TV. Really don’t need another streaming device.
The UI is just plain awful and clunky.
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I could not find the meaning of UI? Interface???
Sorry...”User Interface” — just as you guessed.
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