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broadcasters must provide content to end users.
The point of this law is to force companies to broadcast in digital format by a
certain date, but I wonder if this same law and others could be used in a suit
against NBC because it doesn't not provide content to Apple users who do not
own a TiVo...?
Once the laws catch up to the internet, it will be seen that internet methods
of tv viewing are just as legitimate and already nearly as used as other
methods. At such time, many laws will be passed to "include" the internet in
current FCC laws and regulations.
This is not actually true. The use of PVR software such as MythTV makes it possible to watch TV on your computer or the portable media player of your choice, in a completely legal way. The downside is that it is needlessly difficult to produce such a system which will record and display HD content, due to the HDCP copy protection scheme used to protect HD content.
quicktime program may be proprietary, but ipods can support several video
formats, none of them proprietary to Apple. In fact, the 2 main formats ipods
support, H.264 and MPEG-4, are open standards supported by the vast
majority of video encoding programs, and are commonly used by bit torrent
release groups. One of the most common open source encoding programs,
FFMPEG, supports both of these formats.
The general gist of the article is true, though- the format ipods cannot
support is any sort of DRM protected file that is not sold by Apple, i.e.
anything that NBC sells.
If I could buy an episode online for $2, that would be a great deal. Instead, I'm paying $10 per episode, which is definitely NOT a good deal. Ok, so we'll add in the other show I watch sometimes... call it an additional 3 or four viewings per month. Now I'm paying $5-$6 per episode.
Why not make it easy and inexpensive to buy just the shows you want?
Not a single file will download from tvRSS. A message invariably says the channel is not compatible with Miro. It will attempt to download, but never does. After trying it more than a dozen times with different links at tvRSS, it is now time to uninstall Miro.
At the feedsite, you left click on the show you're interested in. This opens another window. THERE you will find the RSS link to copy.
See the image at http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20070912/Picture_16_540x321.png
And you'll see the that the link you need to copy is highlighted with a box around it.
ADD that link to the CHANNELS in Miro and THAT will grab the feed for you.
It works! I've been grabbing The IT Crowd and Eureka via this method and it works just fine.
I use uTorrent as my BitTorrent client and ShareTV.org for my RSS feed. They also have older shows like Seinfeld, King of Queens, Sex and the City, and others that my girlfriend and I used to watch every once in a while on TBS. Now we have the whole series (that we don't already own on DVD) of our favorite shows on one 500GB external hard drive, all viewable through Vista Media Center.
I cancelled my Charter Cable yesterday, saving me over $80/month. I will miss a lot of NFL games and NCAA football, but I was spending way too much time on the couch anyways!
basically equivalent to AVI in most respects. It's very well documented and
there are a variety of open-source quicktime libraries for working with it.
Quicktime is just a container.
The actual video encoded in the Quicktime file could be saved with a
proprietary codec, but if you've been using iTunes, that "proprietary" codec is
simply MPEG4 -- which is also an international standard (albeit one that's
tortuously long in definition and complex in implementation). Sure, there's a
simple encryption scheme included in the standard that makes it difficult to
access the file without the key, but there's nothing proprietary about it.
If the studios/producers were smart, they would embrace/adapt the bit torrent model and setup official sources of their shows with commercials.
What they don't understand is that prime-time acts as a hard limit on how much TV people can watch. With the convience of download-when-you-want/watch-when-you-want (bittorrent) you end up watching WAY more TV then you ever could. You don't have to ever worry about shows having conflicting time-slots. Or if you find out about a show mid-season, no worries about missed episodes, you can catch up at your own pace. People watching more TV, people seeing more adverts, and being able to keep the copies to watch again means they actually see the adverts more often.
The only issue is that of how to get commercials in, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.If they must, set up a proprietary format (Not DRM mind you) to discourage editing out of commercials. Tweak the system to allow region based insertion of commercials (inserted at download-time, not play-time). People would use this over traditional (unauthorized methods) because it's easier, (faster, don't have to worry about sync issues or bad encodes, don't have to hunt for episodes etc). Will ppl just fastforward commercials? Unlikely, as seeking with digital media has never been that fun of an experience. It's too difficult/time consuming to try and seek past 30-60secs of commercials, most won't bother. But if they must, they can limit the # of keyframes/index points to 60sec intervals.
An official modified analogue of bittorrent is the way to go. People will watch more TV. It's a no brainer. If they don't do it, people will continue to download, but they will receive no ad revenue at all.
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http://tvfreedom.wordpress.com/
Then just click on the links to subscribe. Oh, and TVRSS works great for me. Maybe you were pasting the wrong link?
1) "Navigate through the list of TV shows on the tvRSS website, and find a desired show."
-->2) **Left-click** on the show's link. <-- Missing step!
3) "[Then] On the web-page for the show, right click..."
Yes, Step 2 is fairly important.
...the link below from someone here works perfectly. Thank you for that.
The link that works [for me] again:
http://tvfreedom.wordpress.com/
is it only downloading that is illegal? I live in europe at the moment as do many other military personal and we don't have access to stream the shows from the broadcast website like abc or the cw. there are other websites that repost these broadcasts so everyone around the world can see them too. Is it wrong to be watching these streams? ( I would not include movies in this because like I said the networks themselves are offering the shows for free in the U.S.) We are U.S. citizens too!!! But I really don't want to do something wrong - so streaming instead of downloading???
Does someone have a legal reference?
Thanks!!!
Although the GB is large, watching a large amount of TV becomes more expensive than a cable TV subscription.
Even if you have unlimited broadband plans, they typically come at a cost, with traffic shaping effectively a cap in itself.
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