The Future of Your Cable Box
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2010-01-26/future-your-cable-box
From Hulu to YouTube to NetFlix, watching your favorite movies and TV shows these days is just a mouse click away. So why pay for the cable box on your TV set? It's a question that has companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable scrambling to both keep subscribers and keep up with the technological times. Kojo explores the future of cable on Tech Tuesday.
Guests
Harold Feld
Legal Director of Public Knowledge
Greg Sandoval
Senior Writer for CNet, author of the "Media Maverick" blog
Derek Thompson
Staff Editor at TheAtlantic.Com
Bill Harlow
WAMU Computer Guy; and Hardware & Software Technician for MACs & PCs at Mid-Atlantic Consulting, Inc.
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I love the BBC show Eastenders but the ones broadcast on PBS are old and only on once/week.
How can I get access to the show currently being shown on the BBC in England?
Thanks
As a semi-consumer conscious parent of a 3 year old, if I allow her to watch television I prefer the commercial-less channels such as Noggin/Nick 2 and PBS. Just recently my wife and I have started streaming movies and shows via Netflix. Granted, the amount of screen watching is always in question, but paying for the show itself in almost a micro-transaction way and not having to say "No, you do not actually need a new PETZ-GIRLZ-HYPER-SHOP-HANNAH Edition playset." Is quite the blessing.
I haven't had TV (cable, dish, antenna) since 2004. I got tired of paying for a product of which I used about 30 %. I am satisfied to pursue the shows that interest me on Hulu, Netflix, and network websites. However if the cable companies would allow me to pay only for the stations I wanted (HGTV, Food Network, HBO, SciFi) I'd happily return to cable. As it is now, I'm pretty much done paying for a ton of stations I never watch.