Comments on: Ways To Watch TV Without Paying An Arm And A Leg For Cable Or Satellite

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:16:36 +0000

Great article Peter, thanks. I’m going to try doing this with the WII I bought my kiddos last year. Hope it works.

By: Mattk

Mattk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:41 +0000

hey all a great site i found for watching free tv online is TopFreeTv.info. good selection and constantly updated.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:21:18 +0000

This may not be for everyone, but if are in the US, and you already have a somewhat fast PC with a large enough hard drive, a home network, and an Xbox 360 on a TV, you can get an HD TV card with 2 tuners and record up to two TV programs at a time. I am using an HDHomerun, because I like the fact that it’s not physically in my computer, but there are cheaper alternatives. The Windows7 version of Windows Media Center has greater HD quality than most HD recorders offered by cable/satellite/ and others that cost over $400.00 per box if you were to buy one! Some cable companies deliver QAM signals also, so even if you only have the most basic cable signal, you may be getting free unencrypted digital signals over that line (check with your cable company), or you can also use an antenna for free, like me.

By: Jackie @ Lilolu

Jackie @ Lilolu — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:18 +0000

Thank you so much! This was very useful.
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By: Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:39:05 +0000

I’ve heard that rumor about Hulu starting to charge for content. If they do start charging i certainly hope they keep it cheap – or have a two tiered system – one with ads for free, one without.

By: SavingDiva

SavingDiva — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:31:13 +0000

Great post! There have been some rumors that Hulu is going to start charging for the content in 2010…so it’s always nice that the shows are also on the network pages!

I’m a huge fan on Netflix. I have the basic package (~$9/month) and watch a ton of TV shows and movies through the streaming online option.
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Weekly Round-Up: Runaway Cat — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:51:25 +0000

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By: Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:44:54 +0000

I can only speak for the setup that I’m running at my house. As far as buffering – we never seem to have any issues with that. We’re running on a pretty fast DSL connection, not sure what you’re running on – could that be part of the issue? The biggest problem we run into with buffering is when the show is just starting to play on the xbox. It sometimes takes longer than others to buffer – but once it starts playing we usually don’t have any issues.

As far as the quality – sometimes it isn’t that great, it’s not DVD quality or anything, but it’s more than acceptable. HD it’s not – but we think it’s pretty good.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:55:05 +0000

I really want to set this up, but my question about this revolves around quality. I watch things on Hulu from time to time, and for the most part it’s okay, but there are times that it just HANGS and then after a minute or so it goes for another 4 seconds and hangs again. Obviously it’s buffering too slowly. When it gets like that it’s almost unwatchable for me. Drives me nuts.

That’s one problem. The other problem is that there is a marked degradation in video quality when I go from native size to full screen on my computer (not as bad as on YouTube, but still) AND the buffering is worse. If it’s having that much trouble filling a 19″ monitor, how bad is it going to be on a 30″ TV screen? Not sure I can take that kind of degradation.

What does it look like compared to watching a DVD, for example?
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By: Michelle Traudt

Michelle Traudt — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:44:07 +0000

Great information, I just passed this article onto my husband. Thanks for the post!
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