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Also carefully note what's not in the list of things available to watch... (example, NBA wants viewers but notice NFL, NHL, and MLB aren't there).

Most of what's available online via various streaming mechanisms is even worse than the crap on the 500 additional channels in any "bundled" CATV service or Dish service.

If its worth watching, someone will make ya pay for it these days.

We dumped pay TV years ago and put up an antenna (I think you mentioned you're in the boonies once Tom? Understand digital broadcast doesn't do so hot to some places these days...) and bought an AppleTV for $99 and hooked it to our already fast Internet connection.

Looking over the last year, we paid about $200 for stuff we watched on AppleTV including buying a season of Flying Wild Alaska and the cheap Netflix account with online add-on. It whipped even the cheapest Dish or CATV package paid monthly. But we also found ourselves spending less time at the TV.

We also do a weekend "hey, what did you find on YouTube this week?" between us on the AppleTV which usually includes a number of the videos posted here and other aviation and music performances. Things we like watching a lot better than sitcoms!

But... it does require a high speed Net connection. I have to have that for my job anyway, and it runs about $40/month here for 15Mb/s down, 2.5 Mb/s up.
 
denverpilot said:
Also carefully note what's not in the list of things available to watch... (example, NBA wants viewers but notice NFL, NHL, and MLB aren't there).

Most of what's available online via various streaming mechanisms is even worse than the crap on the 500 additional channels in any "bundled" CATV service or Dish service.

If its worth watching, someone will make ya pay for it these days.

We dumped pay TV years ago and put up an antenna (I think you mentioned you're in the boonies once Tom? Understand digital broadcast doesn't do so hot to some places these days...) and bought an AppleTV for $99 and hooked it to our already fast Internet connection.

Looking over the last year, we paid about $200 for stuff we watched on AppleTV including buying a season of Flying Wild Alaska and the cheap Netflix account with online add-on. It whipped even the cheapest Dish or CATV package paid monthly. But we also found ourselves spending less time at the TV.

We also do a weekend "hey, what did you find on YouTube this week?" between us on the AppleTV which usually includes a number of the videos posted here and other aviation and music performances. Things we like watching a lot better than sitcoms!

But... it does require a high speed Net connection. I have to have that for my job anyway, and it runs about $40/month here for 15Mb/s down, 2.5 Mb/s up.
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It's all pay as you go, no TV is free unless you have a antenna on the house.

and most programs are not supporting an Apple IMac.
 
Tom-D said:
It's all pay as you go, no TV is free unless you have a antenna on the house.
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I do.

Tom-D said:
and most programs are not supporting an Apple IMac.
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Not sure what this means. AppleTV has nothing to do with an iMac either. Or MacBooks, or iPad. (Although It does work nicely with those too, if you have them.)

You point the remote at it and watch stuff. There's the following items in the on screen menu...

Movies - This is anything they sell or rent on the iTunes store.

TV Shows - Same thing.

Music - links to your iTunes music connection stored in iCloud, if you have one. If you pay the annual fee, also stores your non-iTunes MP3 formatted stuff so it's playable anywhere on any Apple device.

Internet - This is where we spend most of our time. Includes built in support for Netflix, iTunes Live (Apple sometimes has free live concerts), NBA, NHL, MLB.TV, WSJ Live (Wall Street Journal), YouTube, Vimeo, Podcasts (will only link to podcasts syndicated at the iTunes Store), Photo Stream (Apple's thing that shows all your Apple device photos without having to copy them between devices), MobileMe (view photo galleries which will be going away with iCloud but still works now), Flickr (great way to view your digital photos and friends photos), and finally Radio (which is hundreds of various Internet audio streams of all sorts.)

Then there's the Computers tab, which is what you're thinking. You can play most media that's in any machine running iTunes, including PCs I believe. The AirPlay feature enables this the other direction.

I use AirPlay all the time. "Hey honey, check this video out I found!", press play on the iPad or iPhone and switch the output to "AppleTV", and it pops up on the TV and starts playing. Very cool. We leave the AppleTV on as a giant photo gallery screen saver of all our favorite photos whenever we're just sitting here in the living room reading or working on the laptops. Makes tossing something up on the screen to share a piece of cake.

When I'm out and about and someone sends me a funny YouTube video, I just add it to my "Favorites" list at YouTube and when I get home, watch it on the big screen.

In all, for $99 plus a cheapie Netflix subscription, it does a ton of stuff. No other Apple devices required. But they're all integrated nicely if you do have other's. Or a PC running iTunes.
 
Here's a photo of the TV displaying my Flickr photos from Oshkosh last year, for example. One of my favorite features...

Let's me get a good hard look at the photos blown up huge on the big screen. Can then pull them up on the laptop and look at ISO settings, shutter speeds, what lens I had on, etc. See what really worked well and what didn't.

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Those are just photos of the TV sitting here in the living room. Love that feature... Especially the "Ken Burns" transition effect with my favorite photos. Can also turn on iTunes music to go with the slideshow...

Works for me! ;)
 
Tom, here's some more. Best dang TV show in the world on my TV right now. ;)

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I just picked these as airplanes I figured you'd say "have class" while I was flipping through the slideshow here.

Originals can be found by searching for DenverPilot on Flickr. ;)

http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/den_pilot/sets/72157627499202924/

I couldn't find the one of the Taylorcraft that had a prop strike right in front of us. (Alan was there too.) That photo may have been too sad to post to Flickr or more likely was during the hour or so that I accidentally bumped the camera ISO way up and trashed a bunch of photos because they were way too grainy and full of digital noise.

Over 1200 shots. Only a few over 300 worth posting. Not bad for the first real outing with a brand new camera (Sony A55). I do need to get a better quality long lens for it though. Been hunting for a used 400mm fixed reflex lens. They're rarely seen not all trashed up or missing their filters.

Anyway. Just sharing the fun toys in AppleTV. It's not totally "about" TV for us here. It does other stuff we like just as much as the TV features.
 
This reminds of a full-page newspaper ad that appeared today...big letters across the top, saying "Money saving invention gives Washingtonians Free TV and gets rid of cable or satellite bills"

Big table of local zip codes that apparently can take advantage of of this modern marvel. "Just plug it in to your TV and pull in up to 953 crystal clear digital TV shows Free with no monthly bills".

What it is, of course, is an antenna.

Ron Wanttaja
 
I've always wanted to see if someone on eBay would pay me $50 for a "road tested" SRS airbag out of a late model car.

Previous owner tested it for us. We can prove it did function.
 
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