[mythtv-users] missed an episode trying to watch on Firefox

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 04:36:08 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/22/2010 05:02 PM, Jim Morton wrote:
>> Scott Bickford wrote:
> Yeah, Fox is Windows only--as is CW, and (IIRC) ABC.  NBC is Hulu (and
> regretting every minute of starting that bonfire).  CBS works nicely
> from Linux (with significantly better performance than Hulu).
>
> After all, if you owned rights to American Idol, would you really want a
> bunch of GNU/Linux users to be able to see it?  Of course not...  If you
> pay the (MS) fee, you can watch it for free.
>

Yes, there was a discussion on another list regarding this...  Having
to change my UA string to watch video clips is pretty stupid on their
part..

My guess is that they just have a happy-go-lucky flash-happy idiot
doing their web site  :)

-Greg


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