[mythtv-users] Is it going to get harder and harder to get the content we want in MythTV?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/12/2008 02:23 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 09/12/2008 12:42 PM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
>>     
>>> ----- "Allen Edwards" wrote: 
>>>       
>>>> What we need is better integration of online content into MythTV. 
>>>> Then more and more people will say goodbye and good riddens to Cable 
>>>>         
>>> I second this one. 
>>>       
>> Until CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox/CW/MyTV/... second it, we're probably out of 
>> luck.  Have any of you tried watching any of the shows on their sites?  
>> They require Windows (for Windows Media Player and its DRM or custom 
>> Activex controls or ...).
>>     
>     Those would be the content providers that provide their content
> DRM over the public airwaves. Why worry what they do on their websites?
> They stream HD MPEG2 in the clear to anyone interested in tuning it in.
>   

Well, the "..." was meant to indicate "and all those cable channels that 
you people who are spending money on cable would know about."  I'm sure 
it's no better at SciFi/Food/History/Discovery/... (though I haven't 
specifically tried watching any shows on their websites).

>> Unless, of course, you meant saying goodbye to cable and hello to 
>> YouTube's garbage and its ilk...
>>     
>     Nevermind the Windows-centric BS dependencies. My main gripe about
> all that online content would be the commercials. It's like being back
> in the 80's again.
>
>     I'd rather just wait until the content comes out on some format
> gauranteed to be accessable with AnyDVD if nothing else.

I second that.  I dropped cable many years ago.  While I do enjoy a lot 
of SciFi shows, I buy them all and watch them on DVD.  The only reason I 
don't buy Good Eats DVD's is because of the cost (and the fact that I 
can only buy it from Food Network, which is probably why the cost is so 
high--once it's available at a more reasonable cost and from retailers 
or rental companies (NetFlix or BlockBuster), I may actually catch up on 
that, too).

The only other channels I missed were Discovery (though, really, there 
are only like 2 new things on there each year, repeated way too many 
times, so I'm not missing much there) and History channel (which isn't 
good enough/high priority enough for me to buy DVD's).

Mike