MythTV is one of the tools that one can use. MythTV is a DVR and if you have a TV tuner card you can record on it programs to watch is later. However, MythTV runs only on Linux and requires one to be a Linux thoroughbred to configure a MythTV system with networking and other drivers. I have found Linux especially difficult with network drivers.
If one wants to use a computer and connect it to their TV, one of the things that should be consider is whether a wireless support is required on the PC. One can choose a small form factor and keep it along side their VCR and DVD player.
I choose a MythTV configuration without a TV tuner card but I created a Plugin containing a list of streaming web URL. The list is updated periodically and provide me with access to several video streaming web URL. Albeit a little slow to browse through because it requires buffering, but gets me set of video contents from web that I am interested in. Other than this I use MythTV for listening to my audio and video archive.
Stay tuned, next blog I will talk about what I have found to be the easiest way to install MythTV. If you have a PC to spare that can be connected to TV and an internet connection on it, you may find it interesting....
Saturday, February 21, 2009
What this blog is about?
This blog is about streaming videos from web to TV. Most cable companies and telecommunication companies behave like monopolies. The prices are too steep and the content too steeped with advertisements.
If you have internet connection, most relevant information is available on web. Today any media company can't just live without providing content on the web. There is plethora of video content available on the web.
The great unbundling
The RSS, Atom, Podcasts, Videocasts are driving us in a world where in we have capability to subscribe and access only the content that interests us. We can subscribe to only feeds that interests us, we search and filter content which we are interested in. The technology has driven us into silos, where we create a wall around ourselves with only relevant contents and never get exposed to things not of our interest. The internet has segmented and nurtured the human behavior in unfathomable ways. But this unbundling has not yet peculated in video services in our living room. This is a blog about one individual's struggle to consolidate the information on how to do it.
Video Services
What we need is a tool that facilitates bringing these video services on the web together on your big screen. I will try to discuss the tools and technologies that can facilitate this. So keep tuned.
If you have internet connection, most relevant information is available on web. Today any media company can't just live without providing content on the web. There is plethora of video content available on the web.
The great unbundling
The RSS, Atom, Podcasts, Videocasts are driving us in a world where in we have capability to subscribe and access only the content that interests us. We can subscribe to only feeds that interests us, we search and filter content which we are interested in. The technology has driven us into silos, where we create a wall around ourselves with only relevant contents and never get exposed to things not of our interest. The internet has segmented and nurtured the human behavior in unfathomable ways. But this unbundling has not yet peculated in video services in our living room. This is a blog about one individual's struggle to consolidate the information on how to do it.
Video Services
What we need is a tool that facilitates bringing these video services on the web together on your big screen. I will try to discuss the tools and technologies that can facilitate this. So keep tuned.
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