OT: Inner Geek

   Have you found yours ? The youngest son and I are downloading TV episodes
to watch from a computer feed to our TV sets (he's puttin' them on a
terabyte HDD on his Gamer until I can buy more storage for the Media Box ).
Dish Network has mightily pissed me off , and we're looking for alternatives
... and found them !!
  Movies , TV shows , etc  are all available online , and Bob can kiss my
ass (not you , Mr Mann ...) . The latest episodes of my wife's faves are out
there waiting to be downloaded , and it's all FREE ! The codecs and players
are open source , and can be downloaded for free too . Why pay for something
you can get free on the internet ?
  Shirley , a round for the patrons of this fine establishment , I can
afford it now that I'm not payin' Bob for my media content .
--
  Snag
  every answer
  leads to another
  question

 

yeah and the commercial breaks are shorter... and you can pause them to get
another beer..... (if needed)

Invisible
(watching the new battlestar galactica on the computer)

 Invisible68 wrote:

  Just finished watching the first episode (OK , I slept thru half of it) of
NCIS on my desktop . Now I'm upstairs , 'bout ready for beddy-bye ... and
I've had too many beers , but if y'all want anudder , just holler "SHIRLEY
!" .
  Last count we've got nine boxes networked in the house ... but three are
asleep and one is off right now .
--
Snag n Strider
BS 132
DOF #53
OSG #1

 

Thank the deity of your choice I don't have to kiss your butt.

I've been PVRing just about anything I might want to watch for some time
now off Bell Expressvu.
Not too happy with the service, or more to the point, the cost of the
service, but at least I don't see too many commercials.

--
Bob Mann

Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.

 
I have been "borrowing" many movies and music vidoes from t.o.r.r.e.n.t
sites for quite some time now. Most of them are Hi-Def (720p or 1080p), some
are lower resolution. I put them on my external 1 terabyte USB hard drive,
plug it into my xbox 360, and watch them on my Plasma HDTV. Works perfectly.
Sometimes I have to convert a file format to one that the xbox will play
nice with, but there are so many freeware utilities and programs that it's
not a problem at all.

Nice way to go - new movies (in theater/screener dvd's), old movies, name
it...great quality, and I can watch them on my HDTV or PC.

--
Bill G. AH#125 BS#233