What's an "original TV series"? What does a series have to do/be to be considered 'un-original'? (Because I'm guessing they're not talking about content matter...)
I wonder which category a desktop computer connected to a TV falls in.
Not read the article, but I think part of that is down to the availability of the tech.
Back when I had old telly, I had to use my laptop for watching anything that wasn't broadcast. Then I got a telly with a USB slot, and that meant that for one source (cough) of new shows at least, I could stick them on the telly. But if I wanted to watching something on iPlayer, it was still the laptop -- which meant that sometimes I'd go torrent a show that I could legitimately watch on iPlayer, simply because I wanted it on the TV.
Last week we bought a Roku streaming stick, and suddenly everything is easier.
Smart TVs are expensive and confusing; streaming boxes are only just (it seems to me) seeping into general consciousness as a thing. So in the absence of those, yup it's going to be laptops and tablets. But ultimately, watching TV on a larger screen further away is always going to be more comfortable.
Oh yes. We use the PS3 to stream everything from the NAS, and it's great for that because it's connected up to the 42" TV, which is where I want to be watching things.
We watch things on the laptop if we're watching TV in bed before we get up. And I watch trailers and YouTube videos on my desktop/laptop. but I'd never watch a movie on my desktop.
I'm feeling tempted by the new Nexus Player though - once I find out how easy it is to get XBMC up and running on it.
I most frequently watch TV content on my TV... using Netflix streaming from my Xbox(es). I have a set-top OTA antenna for broadcast TV but haven't used it in a couple of months.
-- Steve wonders if he still counts as watching over TV, according to the survey.
I think the TV will continue to dominate for the forseeable future, but the method of transmission will change from traditional aerial/dish to some sort of streaming device. Most living rooms are still designed around the TV, and there are a plethora of devices being launched to get online media onto a TV.
Partly this is because nobody has made the mythical Apple TV yet -- not the box product we've got, but the actual "this is a functioning computer that does computer things and also does TV things, and does them all really well". So there are still things for which the satellite/cable set top box is the best viewing method even though we have an attached computer. Which is kind of bizarre but there you go. (And very irritating, the set of programs available on catchup is different on the STB and the computer, and neither set is a subset of the other
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I think there are advantages from a bandwidth-efficiency point of view for Cable boxes and the like - we don't seem to have solved multicast sufficiently well to serve Eastenders to its audience all at once over IP. Or, at least, not as far as I'm aware. Possibly when IPv6 comes in :-)
As to why have TVs - in my case "It's a 42" screen that's set up at a comfortable position to watch from the sofa, and the surround sound is set up to work with it."
We've just bought a Roku streaming stick and we're very happy with it. Does Netflix, iPlayer & other UK channel catch-ups, YouTube, a long tail of total dross we've only briefly investigated, and appears to have apps for streaming files from a local computer that we've not tried yet.
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I wonder which category a desktop computer connected to a TV falls in.
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Back when I had old telly, I had to use my laptop for watching anything that wasn't broadcast. Then I got a telly with a USB slot, and that meant that for one source (cough) of new shows at least, I could stick them on the telly. But if I wanted to watching something on iPlayer, it was still the laptop -- which meant that sometimes I'd go torrent a show that I could legitimately watch on iPlayer, simply because I wanted it on the TV.
Last week we bought a Roku streaming stick, and suddenly everything is easier.
Smart TVs are expensive and confusing; streaming boxes are only just (it seems to me) seeping into general consciousness as a thing. So in the absence of those, yup it's going to be laptops and tablets. But ultimately, watching TV on a larger screen further away is always going to be more comfortable.
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We watch things on the laptop if we're watching TV in bed before we get up. And I watch trailers and YouTube videos on my desktop/laptop. but I'd never watch a movie on my desktop.
I'm feeling tempted by the new Nexus Player though - once I find out how easy it is to get XBMC up and running on it.
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-- Steve wonders if he still counts as watching over TV, according to the survey.
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As to why have TVs - in my case "It's a 42" screen that's set up at a comfortable position to watch from the sofa, and the surround sound is set up to work with it."
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