Jan 6

The Interconnectedness of All Things   Posted by sharps, tagged with convergence tivo

I've been a Netflix fan and customer for years but we recently stopped our subscription. Instead we subscribed to a couple of premium cable channels and got a Tivo (series 2). I was perfectly happy with Netflix - no complaints at all, but the convenience of clicking a button on the remote to watch stuff when you want (including VOD) was just too great. It'll be interesting to see how Netflix responds to VOD - overnight delivery via the web ? Clearly when it comes to TV related technology - I'm a real laggard. When I asked the guy in the store for a Tivo - he looked at me like I was the long-saught last person in North America come to claim his Tivo.

So, as it turns out there is actually some decent stuff on TV afterall - you just have to know when and where to look (which Tivo makes easier) - all these years I'd been working on the assumption that TV was crap because whenever I happened to have time to take a look - nothing of interest to me was on.

So, thanks to the tip from ThinGuy I've just scheduled my Tivo to record the entire season of Star Gate Atlantis and Battle Star Gallactica from my browser (via my.yahoo).

We're definitely getting closer to the interconnectedness of all things :

• my PC can make phone calls
• my Phone is essentially a PC; and camera
• my camera can send email
• my TV can play music, view photos and the web
• i can control my TV recorder from my browser; on my pc; on my phone
• i can watch recorded TV on my PC (and probably my phone)

To me some of this is simply amazing - but none of this impresses my 4 year old daughter in the slightest.

Now I just need a machine to expand time to give me the opportunity to watch stuff I record.

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