I scare broadcasters

[Northwoods]

Found a foreign live stream of the F1 race since NBC sports sucks giant balls and ...

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[roo_ster]

First, all my favorite TV shows came to an end (Buffy, Angel).

Indeed!  You can watch them for free if you have Amazon Prime.

These days I can stomach Grimm and Castle on Hulu and that is about it. 

Had cay-buhl teevee while on vacation a few weeeks back.  Best thing on was some Mennonite-ish folks getting drunk and racing 4-wheelers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

[Perd Hapley]

Keep it to yourself.

I WANT them to die.

I guess I'd be OK with that. Hadn't really thought about it. What do you think would happen, then? New TV networks, or would everything just be online?

[Boomhauer]

Never had cable or satellite at home, when I was growing up classmates thought I was wierd/poor because I didn't share in their favorite pasttime of plunking down in front of the TV and watching hours and hours of TV per day. I vastly preferred to crack open a good book or be outside doing something.

Still to this day we do not have cable or satellite. Newest TV in the house was made in the late '80s. It's hooked up to an antenna for over the air reception. Gets mainly used by Dad when he watches a little bit of TV during supper. I don't watch it myself.

I do watch a few shows on my laptop through Hulu. The only show I actually follow is Chicago Fire.

[Perd Hapley]

There should be a reality show about people who have trouble sleeping...

I just watched a short clip of a show called "LA Shrinks." It was so silly, I assumed it must be mockumentary. But Wikipedia says it is just another reality show.

And they wonder why we don't watch.

[birdman]

I am actually AT the NAB show right now...talking about...online sports.
You'd be surprised what broadcasters really think

[AZRedhawk44]

I am actually AT the NAB show right now...talking about...online sports.
You'd be surprised what broadcasters really think

Do enlighten us.

[Perd Hapley]

Related:

 http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/as-aereo-threatens-to-alter-tv-landscape-major-networks-promise-a-fight/2013/04/08/adc01b52-a077-11e2-be47-b44febada3a8_story.html?hpid=z3

A company called Aaero is grabbing the broadcast signal, and streaming it online.

[birdman]

Do enlighten us.

When I get back :)

[AZRedhawk44]

Related:

 http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/as-aereo-threatens-to-alter-tv-landscape-major-networks-promise-a-fight/2013/04/08/adc01b52-a077-11e2-be47-b44febada3a8_story.html?hpid=z3

A company called Aaero is grabbing the broadcast signal, and streaming it online.

Ooh, sneaky.  I like it.

I'm sure a person could set up a private "darknet" with like-minded people, using a low powered mini PC to record 1-2 channels with a TV tuner card and storing a weeks' worth of prime time content for those channels, other people doing it in their homes for a different 1-2 channels, and getting the whole ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX/whatever broadcast system stored into a home network web ring.  Some dynamic DNS, some Plex Media Server account trust delegations, and bam!  Broadcast on-demand DVR for all members of the web ring.

[lee n. field]

I am actually AT the NAB show right now...talking about...online sports.
You'd be surprised what broadcasters really think

Yes.  Do tell.

Let's see.  We're cattle to them, who should be forced to keep the telescreen on in every room.  The next big reality show will get content from hijacking webcams. 

[roo_ster]

Related:

 http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/as-aereo-threatens-to-alter-tv-landscape-major-networks-promise-a-fight/2013/04/08/adc01b52-a077-11e2-be47-b44febada3a8_story.html?hpid=z3

A company called Aaero is grabbing the broadcast signal, and streaming it online.

“If Aereo’s model is ultimately upheld,” Stifel Nicolaus analysts Christopher King and David Kaut wrote in a recent note, it could force “the broadcast/content companies to seek Congressional relief.”

Translated: Our business model has been rendered obsolescent by the march of technology.  Rather than invest in new ways to please people and convince them to give us money willingly for our products, we will instead invest in politicians in the hopes that thay will use men with guns prop up our increasingly uncompetitive business with threats of violence.

[AZRedhawk44]

Translated: Our business model has been rendered obsolescent by the march of technology.  Rather than invest in new ways to please people and convince them to give us money willingly for our products, we will instead invest in politicians in the hopes that thay will use men with guns prop up our increasingly uncompetitive business with threats of violence.

You guys rock.

[HankB]

. . .  The next big reality show will get content from hijacking webcams. 

My company-issue laptop came with a built-in webcam. First thing I did was put a piece of electrical tape over it.

[birdman]

Translated: Our business model has been rendered obsolescent by the march of technology.  Rather than invest in new ways to please people and convince them to give us money willingly for our products, we will instead invest in politicians in the hopes that thay will use men with guns prop up our increasingly uncompetitive business with threats of violence.

Yup.  Which is why my company is based around providing something people would gladly fork over money for.

In fact, most people we have surveyed were like "make this so I can give you ALL THE MONEY"

[AZRedhawk44]

Regarding Aereo:

Last I cared to research the matter, it was 100% A-OK legal to record a broadcast show in its entirety and redistribute it as long as the commercials were intact.  This was back in the VHS days of the 90's though.  Pro sports had their audio blurb about redistribution without express consent in any form, but that was it.

Anyone know the current status in regards to recording broadcast stuff and giving it away to others?  Did DMCA change this, or does that only apply to music and movies?