Watching TV without the TV

[RandyWayne]

This story just puts the ! on what many here (and other forums) have been saying for years when it comes to arguing with UC's about the value of..... video, or television, or motion pictures, or to the REAL old ones, the talkies!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,369571,00.html

Well, it may not be completely obsolete yet. But increasingly it's imprecise, simplistic or just plain wrong. It's a relic of the analog age — like the way people still say "dialing" a phone number.

"Watching television" is a term full of assumptions that, after a half-century, are increasingly suspect.

For one thing, just what does "television" mean now? The "watching" part is also open to debate, as my 13-year-old son bears out.

Continued on link.

[clgustaveson]

U can do this at http://www.hulu.com as well! lol

[CC1]

I have the beat version of Veoah TV on my laptop. There are many "channels" including the major TV networks who put some of their programming on there.

You can watch a lot of different shows. In browsing tonight I saw everything from episodes of a new TV series that just came on a couple of weeks ago to old episodes of Raymond Burr in Ironside and the orignal Star Trek TV series. No cost to watch but just like on TV there are several 15 and 30 second commercials during the program.

Anyone with a media center PC will also have access to Microsots Inernet TV with some shows also free.

Then of course most of the major networks offer full episodes free at their websites.

[RandyWayne]

I have been wanting to try out Netflix's service. They just introduced a set top box but have been streaming to the PC for nearly a year now.

This who issue is what makes "debates" with those who hold to the simple equation that "TV = evil/devil/unsaved" so frustrating. It follows a type of logic that is frequently made fun of in college logic classes, as well as Monty Python. "A is like B and B is somewhat similar to C, which in turn is "kind of" like D. Thus D equals A." -goes the thinking.

[harleypreacher]

When the rabbit ears go away in Feb 2009, will it still be a TV? Maybe this is a way of bringing the WWPF and UPC back together. God has to laugh at all our crazy resolutions and petty church slits.

[CC1]

Originally Posted by harleypreacher

When the rabbit ears go away in Feb 2009, will it still be a TV? Maybe this is a way of bringing the WWPF and UPC back together. God has to laugh at all our crazy resolutions and petty church slits.

You still need rabbit ears to pick up that digital signal unless you have cable or satellite!!!

I was an early adopter of High Definition. I lived out in the country and had DISH satellite who at that time only offered pay TV channels like HBO and Showtime in HD and I didn't want them.

I had to hook up the houses old outdoor antenna to my HD receive so it could pick up the HD digital over the air signals from the local network TV stations and I could switch from DISH Satellite to my antenna to watch HD!!!

[harleypreacher]

If we still need rabbit ear when everything goes HD, I guess its still a TV.

Oh I don't have a TV I have a monitor, my monitor doesn't have an antenna. Oh we don't have a TV we have a computer hook to the internet.

We don't go to the theater, that’s a sin, what will happen if I'm in there and the rapture takes place, we wait for it to come out on video so we can rent it from Blockbuster. You know it’s a sin to watch movies on a giant screen unless its IMAX.

I remember an UC preacher from California who is no longer UPC preaching a camp meeting one year, blasting Hollywood and everyone that had a TV or rented movies and what do you know, I caught Rev. PW (not black) in line with popcorn at IMAX the next year at general conference, the man who sent everyone to hell for watching Hollywood. And he wasn’t there just for the popcorn.

The TV issue has made hypocrites out of a lot of UPC people.

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by harleypreacher

If we still need rabbit ear when everything goes HD, I guess its still a TV.

Oh I don't have a TV I have a monitor, my monitor doesn't have an antenna. Oh we don't have a TV we have a computer hook to the internet.

We don't go to the theater, that’s a sin, what will happen if I'm in there and the rapture takes place, we wait for it to come out on video so we can rent it from Blockbuster. You know it’s a sin to watch movies on a giant screen unless its IMAX.

I remember an UC preacher from California who is no longer UPC preaching a camp meeting one year, blasting Hollywood and everyone that had a TV or rented movies and what do you know, I caught Rev. PW (not black) in line with popcorn at IMAX the next year at general conference, the man who sent everyone to hell for watching Hollywood. And he wasn’t there just for the popcorn.

The TV issue has made hypocrites out of a lot of UPC people.

*cough, cough, choke*

I wouldn't post this on the Ventura Camp meeting thread or your going to have a war on your hands. ::

[RandyWayne]

I have spoken to several who aren't hypocrites when it comes to TV/Video/Movies, but take it to such a wacky extreme that you just have to shake your head. For instance, some who would not use an animated icon on a board like this because it is "to much like video". My question has been "how many frames per second is allowed before it officially becomes video? 5? 10? 15? 29.97?".

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I have spoken to several who aren't hypocrites when it comes to TV/Video/Movies, but take it to such a wacky extreme that you just have to shake your head. For instance, some who would not use an animated icon on a board like this because it is "to much like video". My question has been "how many frames per second is allowed before it officially becomes video? 5? 10? 15? 29.97?".

Or, how quickly can a slide show move before it becomes a video???