For the past several weeks, Michael and I have been watching a TV show over the internet. It isn't something we'd normally do, but a fall show we'd been watching, Kidnapped, was dropped from NBC's schedule, and they decided to show the last 8 episodes on the internet only. We had to keep watching to see if poor Leo would be rescued.
Michael and I gathering around the laptop to watch an hour long TV show was not an appealing prospect, so we've been connecting the computer to the TV set in order to watch on a bigger screen. It's gone fairly well, all in all, but has not been quite the quality of a broadcast show. There have been occasional streaming hiccups. And then there's the set up time - changing energy and screen saver options, hiding the dock, hiding toolbars on the browser, making the connections.
In the end, it's been worth it to see out the show, but unlike the author of the Wired article, Goodbye TV, Hello Broadband, we won't be giving up the cable any time soon.
