BadgeIsBack

Thanks mate. I'll correct myself and say that the hack for the Chromecast is on the router not the Chromecast itself.

BadgeIsBack

I've just picked up a Chromecast and am in the mall waiting to get my shoes re-heeled....I just realised I can stream YouTube and various players from a phone which has me interested. I've also got 2 months free sub to GetFlix which the kids and wife can test out. If there are Tv Shows with tits in them maybe I could come around to the idea of all this

Cheers

GarryP

You can also get 3 months free all access music, can stream from an NAS you might have, and iplayer (once you have getflix sorted).

Isn't that known as porn?

They are moving into VR....
Virtual reality is the new hope of the porn industry with headsets like Oculus Rift set to go mainstream

BadgeIsBack

My wife has ABC and SBS on her Iphone and in the blink of an eye, I showed her that we can now stream all the programmes...

I am starting to see the benefit of all this.

Kids are on YouTube - HD looks great.

I will have a go with GetFlix and the router tomorrow - hopefully I won't **** the internet connection : it's clear that this is acting as a smartDNS when negotiating with Netflix in the US (some connections perhaps not even the download) and it's not a VPN.

paulry

For those who haven't watched this yet, it's a great show.

Series finale (episode 8) is next week.

Swerv-o

Not completely unrelated, but there's a good piece here on the death of FTA:

Why Netflix and YouTube made me give up free-to-air TV

I have to agree with all of this. I haven't had an aerial on my house for the last six years, and really haven't missed anything have I?


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Amazulu

I would need to upgrade my aerial in a few years but I'm not going to bother

The only terrestrial TV that we watch is ABC for news and a few other shows and 9 for cricket. That's it

7,9 and 10 are effectively dead men walking. This is not just an Australian issue though - the BBC have to look at how they are funded as their current model doesn't allow for internet streaming (why anyone in the UK who has a decent internet connection still pays the TV tax is beyond me). I think they will eventually go commercial. The big US networks must be shitting themselves too - Netflix accounts for 1/3 of US internet traffic in the evenings. Netflix, Amazon etc are now starting to make feature films. Most of the top Hollywood actors now star in their shows

The future looks good

GarryP

As I think I've remarked before, as I see it there are only two things broadcast TV is good for : News and sport/events. Otherwise you are better off downloading/streaming what you want when you fancy.

Given that I can see sport going pay-per-view on streaming within the foreseeable - we are left with news and the subset of news that is an event. It's debatable if a multicast approach might not also deal with that one better - particularly if it could integrate multiple data streams within one package (pics, text, background, less dumbed down feeds, etc.)

That also gives you the route to getting rid of ads - pay the subscription, get no ads. The nature of streaming makes it easy enough to achieve.

And in that future (which looks pretty likely to me) the entity with the large catalogue and good new programmes wins out on a global scale.

Which is never going to be 7,9, or 10.

Beoz

Not watching the Ashes on GEM then?

Beoz

Yes please. Need to kick Foxtel into touch badly.

News can be given the flick too. Plenty of online stuff now gives you the latest and greatest news.

GarryP

When they work out they can sell pay-per-view over the net, together with 'season tickets', and get more money than the TV networks pay, they'll jump ship. Give it 5 years before they realise how things have shifted.

Most of the time the reason online is better than the TV is because the TV is:

1. Slower than the data from online, for fast moving events.
2. Dumbed down and biased towards a particular narrative.

With the multimedia, multifeed, concept I outlined, that doesn't have to be the case. However, will those TV news 'journalists' realise in time that they aren't considered to be a net positive for most viewers?

Amazulu

Isn't that 9? Maybe 90. Same station

Beoz

So you can get all the digital channels then?

Amazulu

Everything but SBS

Beoz

Ah OK.

SBS is online anyway