TV: The 41-minute Hour

[Mr. Analog]

Adverts are great, it's like the tele is telling me "time to get a beer" or "better go pee"...

[Lazybones]

Adverts are great, it's like the tele is telling me "time to get a beer" or "better go pee"...

Aww but you have some random amount of time to do those tasks, sometimes not enough time. That is the the wonder of pausing live TV, you can take as long as you need, and skip the ads when you come back.

[Shayne]

The worst show by far for advertisements is "Ebert & Roeper" they have at least 4 breaks in their little 30 minute show.

Speaking or RSS, where do you guys RSS your TV from?

[Lazybones]

http://www.mininova.org/ but their feeds don't work with uTorrent the last time I checked.

[Tom]

they don't work because mininova is just that slow. I've been getting mine from http://www.demonoid.com/

You have to sit on a link from mininova to guarantee it'll actually work.. If it did work, I'd use the http://tvrss.net/ unique feed.

[Lazybones]

they don't work because mininova is just that slow. I've been getting mine from http://www.demonoid.com/

You have to sit on a link from mininova to guarantee it'll actually work.. If it did work, I'd use the http://tvrss.net/ unique feed.

Mininova works in Azures but not uTorrent for me.. Even with how slow the site is... uTorrent doesn't work because the URL in the RSS feed is to the download page not the torrent file.

[Shayne]

Wow. http://tvrss.net is pretty damn slick.  Gotta bookmark that one.  mininova used to be cool, but its crippled under its own popularity.

[Tom]

Mininova works in Azures but not uTorrent for me..

True. thats because Azureus will search the returned page for a torrent, and even links in that page for a torrent, or links to pages that might have the torrent. etc. You can usually see the n/n count of the pages its grabing. And I think it retries.

[Darren Dirt]

TV should be easier   What we really need is the ability to subscribe to channels we want at a price premium.  I would gladly pay $2/m per channel that I want.

I can't believe I'm saying something positive about Telus but "Telus TV" seems to be, finally, a reasonable way of paying (mostly) just for the channels you actually want...

http://www.mytelus.com/tv/channels/index.vm (features , FAQ)

Seems like it's $22.00 for the "basic" package ("essentials") then you can choose individual channels, OR choose reasonably-grouped "themes" (from among a dozen or so groupings!)

[Lazybones]

TV should be easier   What we really need is the ability to subscribe to channels we want at a price premium.  I would gladly pay $2/m per channel that I want.

I can't believe I'm saying something positive about Telus but "Telus TV" seems to be, finally, a reasonable way of paying (mostly) just for the channels you actually want...

http://www.mytelus.com/tv/channels/index.vm (features , FAQ)

Seems like it's $22.00 for the "basic" package ("essentials") then you can choose individual channels, OR choose reasonably-grouped "themes" (from among a dozen or so groupings!)

That is if you like YouTube like picture quality and less reliablity than a poorly aligned dish in a blizzard. I have spoken with about 3 different people who have the service, have seen a friends service, or have tested the service. ALL of them say it is unreliable, garbage. This is however not surprising considering the tiny amount of bandwitdth that you get over a copper phone line.

[Thorin]

I concur with Lazy on the quality of Telus TV.  I had a friend who got it for free while he worked for Telus, and I have to say, the quality *sucked*.  Good thing his TV was so crappy, otherwise it'd have been *really* annoying.  Lots of pixelation, lots of that cloudy effect in what should be black, lots of partial signal loss where the top or the bottom or one of the corners would lose picture and turn into a random set of colours for a second or two.

[TheDruid]

I think surfer has the right idea, he downloads pod-casts shows on his IPod video and watches them while on break at work, or riding transit.