[opendtv] Re: The Many Internet-Video Options for TVs
- From: "Hughes, Gary" <Gary.Hughes@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:19:10 +0000
You'd lose that bet. ST:VOY is currently available on Hulu (free, ads), Hulu
Plus (subscription, ads), Amazon (ppv, no ads) and Amazon Prime (subscription,
no ads). Most OTT streaming devices have access to one or more of these
services. Encoding quality on the Amazon variant is superior to that on
cbs.com, but still SD. I don't think ST:VOY has been transferred in HD yet.
It is true that you cannot access cbs.com from these devices without some
amount of tinkering (e.g. setting up a playon or plex server).
Personally I think content discovery is more of an issue than content
availability. I don't ask "can I watch cbs.com", but I do ask "can I watch Star
Trek Voyager" (for example). There has been some progress in this space (Tivo
and Roku both have cross-service search for example), but not enough. I used
Fanhattan (iPad app) to discover who was streaming ST:VOY.
gary
Gary Hughes
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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=920464
> 3
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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