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Human User
By kake on 3/4/2011 2:31:44 AM , Rating: 2
We have satellite. Everything except HBO.

We watch the Game Show Network, The Food Network, and The Cooking Channel. My wife watches LMN occasionally when she's bored for the hideous movies they play.

I watch local channels over the air as DirecTV are aholes and HD is _so_ much better when watching Jeopardy! it's not even funny.

Everything else, even down to my wife's obsession with American Idol we get via torrent. I'm not aware there is anything we download we couldn't watching on satellite.


1. The sat box is okay to navigate and all, but there is no besides to a digital file on the server to serve off to the laptop, HTPC, etc. So ease of distributed watching (have you tried hooking up a laptop to a satellite box via 802.11? Yeah, it's just not possible).

2. I honestly have absolutely no idea when any of the shows I like are actually on the air. Nor do I intend to find out. Yes, a DVR would probably do that sort of thing for me, but utorrent's very nice RSS feeder is in many ways superior (especially when it comes to Top Gear, and BBCA's week+ lag).

3. Quality. SD channels on DirecTV are so bad it's not even funny. Yes, most things worth watching are in HD, but it's a law of averages. The average being, average torrent > average DirecTV.

note: please correct me if I'm wrong, but to my eyes, don't the Dish SD channels look better than the DirecTV SD channels?

RE: Human User
By kake on 3/4/2011 3:06:15 AM , Rating: 2
Unrelated note:


This is the 'clever' page bottom at the time of my post.

The simple answer is yes, they do know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, but their profit margin would be nill. And who the hell (including Dell) makes nill on a shell?

Apple makes amazing pieces of hardware that have impressive external grace combined with clever engineering (even if the internals are not quite cutting edge). I don't own any Apple products, but that's just because I'm too cheap and DIYish. My in-laws and their kin have a good quantity of the computing fruit, and I always enjoy the sagacity it affords when I use them.

Besides, they look bloody nice.

(typed on an i3-530 based micro-ITX system running W7 64 while people related to me are watching We're No Angels off it on the plasma)

