Showing posts with label New Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Media. Show all posts

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Series 2 Season Pass List and solutions

So we have 3 TiVos and 2 TVs. This is the Season Pass list for our older TiVo, it lives in the bedroom. It has the shows Y was vaguely interested in, so he could watch while he gamed, like How I Met Your Mother or The Big Bang Theory, or shows with more adult content in order for them to be viewed more discretely when the kid is around, like Graham Norton or SNL. It also was the third option for network choke points, Mondays last year come to mind, and I tend to let the BBCAmerica shows linger, because I rarely know when a new series (in the season sense) is going to pop up. MI-5 I'm looking at you.

How I Met Your Mother - cbs.com & iTunes
The Big Bang Theory - netflix...eventually
The Office - hulu & iTunes
30 Rock - hulu & iTunes
Eureka - hulu
The Graham Norton Show - still looking
Gossip Girl - cw.com & iTunes
House - hulu
Waking the Dead - still looking
Cycling on Versus
Endurance - cancelled
Mad Men - iTunes
Torchwood - still looking
Law & Order Criminal Intent - usanetwork.com, but everyone except Goldblum is leaving so it may be time to let it go
Friday Night Lights - hulu or maybe just wait for netflix
Law & Order (original flavor) - iTunes or wait
The Daily Show - hulu, comedycentral.com & iTunes
The Colbert Report - hulu, comedycentral.com & iTunes
Saturday Night Live - hulu
Wire in the Blood - cancelled & netflix
College GameDay - doesn't matter 'til next fall/college football season
Countdown with Keith Olbermann - iTunes
The Rachel Maddow Show - iTunes
Leverage - tnt.tv
Burn Notice - hulu
Sports Reporters - more habit than anything else
The Rachel Zoe Project - probably bravotv.com but we are in between seasons

Other than my British TV habit most of it is available online

Friday, January 8, 2010

Can I Give Up Old Media TV?

So we've been hating on our cable company for the last few months. Nobody ever likes their cable company, and certainly felt cornered into the choice by our love of TiVo, which doesn't work with any other content provider available locally, no AT&T U-verse, no DirecTV. Some software update seems to have put TimeWarner and our Series 3 TiVo into conflict and channels have started randomly vanishing, destroying the one good thing about our cable, it was a least reliable. Apparently it is time to re-evaluate our media choices.

Now a little context, I'm a TV junkie, I read a lot of television criticism and industry coverage. Junkie, but not mindlessly watching. As a stay at home, I have it on for company a fair amount. I own more TiVos than I do actual televisions.

The discussion has commenced about going without cable. In the past when it has come up, Y dismissed it out of hand, which annoyed me, because he watches very little of the TV. We haven't pulled the plug just yet, we were waiting for the end of college football season and we are considering waiting for the Winter Olympics. This gives us a month or so to find new sources for all our old shows.

At the moment we are completely bundled, if we pull the plug we will let the landline go with it and just have broadband and cell phones.