[opendtv] Re: The Many Internet-Video Options for TVs
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:59:47 +0000
Cliff Benham wrote:
> Yesterday, Consumer Reports picked Western Digital's WDTV PLAY as the best
> deal @ $65.
>
> http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=9204643
They do mention that one problem with these boxes is that some of them are more
limited in what they can access than others are. But they don't seem to ask the
most obvious question: why limit them at all?
For instance, here's the Western Digital remote control, with dedicated buttons
for two or three web sites. Hmmm. There's one feature begging to become
obsolete, eh?
On this subject, last night I was having fun watching the original episode of
Star Trek Voyager. That's the episode where they get catapulted to the Delta
Quadrant of this galaxy. Exceedingly few commercials, and my bet is, NONE of
these boxes have access to it. The "classic CBS" shows are available on the
cbs.com site.
(This particular Star Trek series, I thought, was technically quite good at the
time. I'm guessing that we're getting either a made-for-analog videotaped
master of the show, or that CBS is compressing these classic shows more than
current shows. Because the image is noticeably soft even streamed over my 1.5
Mb/s ADSL, the titles seem huge and primitive, the sound is okay, actually, but
is much better in made-for-DTV shows, and wouldn't it have been nice if these
old shows were filmed in wide screen.)
Bert
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