internet TV

[dbskyler]

My television is broken at the moment, so to make up for this lack, I have been searching out television programming on the internet. And what a bounty I have found! Free, legal bounty! Tonight I watched an old episode of The A-Team at NBC.com and was amused to recognize none other than Marc Alaimo, who played Gul Dukat on Deep Space Nine! It

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[persiflage_1]

I never actually use my TV to watch TV shows. I sometimes use it to watch DVDs (or, even more rarely, VHS tapes). The rest of the time, I watch on my computer.

[dbskyler]

I still prefer to watch on the TV, but I freely admit that I watch a lot of crap on television simply because it's there. Having to search shows out on the internet is forcing me to be more selective.

[persiflage_1]

*nods*

I doubt I'll even be able to get a signal on my TV for much longer - we're all switching over to digital, and my tiny portable's an old analogue!

[dbskyler]

You should be able to buy a converter, but it might not be worth it.

[ghost2]

I ought to look up some classic shows on the Internet. I freely admit, I would die without "regular" television (I watch a ton of it and much prefer the experience of "live" viewing on a TV to watching on my computer), but there's so much more I'd like to see that is not currently available on the channels I get.

[dbskyler]

I was surprised at how much classic TV is just sitting out there, freely and legally accessible on the internet.

I do want to get my TV fixed -- I'm not one of those people who's willing to do without it and switch to the internet completely -- but this has been an eye-opening experience.

[lost_spook]

Heh, glad you're having fun out of your TV breaking. You're being all Chestertonian! ("An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered..." ;-D)

Are you enjoying Downton? (Well, presumably if you sent for the next disc you didn't hate it, but I can imagine a person would look at it more sceptically post-hype, rather than when it was all new and took us by surprise. Still, Maggie Smith is never not awesome, :lol:)

[dbskyler]

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered..."

Ooh, I like that!

I am indeed enjoying Downton. I started out by trying to watch the current shows on PBS, but got quickly lost, so switched to watching from the beginning via Netflix. I've only seen the first two episodes, but I think I'm addicted!

[lost_spook]

Yes, so I do I - I found it in a book of quotes, and my favourite thing about it is that the essay it's apparently from is entitled "On Running after one's hat". :-D

Oh, cool. I love it, as you've gathered. (Everybody, but obviously Maggie Smith as Violet - and also Mrs Hughes and Carson. And Michelle Dockery is so good as Mary, because she, and the writing, took me from disliking her to rooting for her.) I found some bits of S2 disappointing (although less so than most other people did, I think) but the Christmas special really pulled everything back up again. (I don't think it's spoilery to say that, but I'll keep quiet until you're caught up now.)

[pitry]

The A-Team! Huh. Oh, the joys of things on the internet :D

[dbskyler]

LOL, yes! I didn't actually go looking for The A-Team, but when I saw it sitting there at NBC.com, I just had to click on it. And then I got Marc Alaimo, and ended up watching the whole episode.

(Obviously my proclivity for crap TV hasn't been completely lost by having to watch via the internet . . . *g*)