What is the cost of your Internet connection?

[warpus]

150$?? That's 105 €, 3 times what I pay.

It must be hard to live in a 3rd world country where communication is not developped that much

Like Canada

I pay $100 for 50mb down and a 150gb cap. (Technically it's only $60 for me as my roommate contributes $40)

 

[Zelig]

Convenience of not having to screw with downloading. Legality. Quality. Closed Captioning. Legality. Etc.

Yeah, it's real annoying that the image quality and subtitle quality of downloaded shows are better than what I can get through my paid-for cable.

 

[bhsup]

Guys, I said "closed captioning". Just a nitpick, but they are not subtitles in any way. Two totally distinct things, though they accomplish the same...

Also, again though, convenience. So in addition to having to download via the computer first, now I am supposed to screw with merging some subtitle file with the video content before I can even watch it? Man, screw that.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Guys, I said "closed captioning". Just a nitpick, but they are not subtitles in any way. Two totally distinct things, though they accomplish the same...

Also, again though, convenience. So in addition to having to download via the computer first, now I am supposed to screw with merging some subtitle file with the video content before I can even watch it? Man, screw that.

Not really. Just make sure you have the .srt file have the same name as the video file, and have them both in the same folder.

For example: Shameless (Folder) Shameless.mkv and Shameless.srt [and if you want, you can have the folder have the cover title Shameless.jpg]

Western Digital Media Player can read both of them. And VLC for the pc or laptop.

 

[bhsup]

And yet, I still have to screw with downloading all this stuff. As it stands right now, my Tivo is intelligently searching the guides and recording everything I want to watch for me and has it ready to roll. I don't have the time nor inclination to mess with downloading all the shows I want to watch and manually getting them ready to be sent to my TV from my computer.

 

[warpus]

And yet, I still have to screw with downloading all this stuff. As it stands right now, my Tivo is intelligently searching the guides and recording everything I want to watch for me and has it ready to roll. I don't have the time nor inclination to mess with downloading all the shows I want to watch and manually getting them ready to be sent to my TV from my computer.

I don't either, but my roommate is addicted to downloading stuff I have way more HD-quality tv shows on my external harddrive than what I know to do with

 

[bhsup]

My roommates all have four legs and fur coats

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

And yet, I still have to screw with downloading all this stuff. As it stands right now, my Tivo is intelligently searching the guides and recording everything I want to watch for me and has it ready to roll. I don't have the time nor inclination to mess with downloading all the shows I want to watch and manually getting them ready to be sent to my TV from my computer.

It isn't time consuming after you have done it a few time.

This is how I do it.

1. Download a tv show. You can get a good quality (720p) of a one hour show for less than 600MB. It only take me less than a half hour to download. (I usually download sizes 1 GB or higher because I have standards )

2. Have it in your external hard drive. Or simply watch it from your pc using VLC media player.

3. Take the external hard drive and hook it into the western media player that is connected via HDMI to your TV. Click on the video and play.

I download most of my stuff before I go to bed. And I don't pay exorbitant money for cable.

 

[NickyJ]

It isn't time consuming after you have done it a few time.

This is how I do it.

1. Download a tv show. You can get a good quality (720p) of a one hour show for less than 600MB. It only take me less than a half hour to download. (I usually download sizes 1 GB or higher because I have standards )

2. Have it in your external hard drive. Or simply watch it from your pc using VLC media player.

3. Take the external hard drive and hook it into the western media player that is connected via HDMI to your TV. Click on the video and play.

I download most of my stuff before I go to bed. And I don't pay exorbitant money for cable.

Right, but maybe some people out there don't know how to do it. Anyway, I currently use the internet to watch TV on the big screen. *Perry Mason theme song playing in the background*

 

[sophie]

About $27,000 per year.

 

[Mustakrakish]

It isn't time consuming after you have done it a few time.

This is how I do it.

1. Download a tv show. You can get a good quality (720p) of a one hour show for less than 600MB. It only take me less than a half hour to download. (I usually download sizes 1 GB or higher because I have standards )

2. Have it in your external hard drive. Or simply watch it from your pc using VLC media player.

3. Take the external hard drive and hook it into the western media player that is connected via HDMI to your TV. Click on the video and play.

I download most of my stuff before I go to bed. And I don't pay exorbitant money for cable.

I'm addicted to those HBO or whatever high quality series you have there, like Dexter, SG-U, House, True Blood etc. doesn't matter... Always download them in 720p, my PC can't handle 1080p, I assume it's the video card's fault. New episodes are usually finished downloading by the time I'm ready to watch it, that is after I make me some tea and sandwich. Then I play it on KMplayer and "drag and drop" it on my secondary screen, that is my TV - connected via hdmi right into my PC. No inconvenience for me at all. finding the right subtitles can be a pain though. There is little more annoying than subtitles out of sync for me...

 

[GamezRule]

60 bucks a month for a crappy satellite connection!

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Right, but maybe some people out there don't know how to do it.

True. But it isn't hard to learn.

Anyway, I currently use the internet to watch TV on the big screen. *Perry Mason theme song playing in the background*

Never cared for live streaming. Even though there will be more advancement in P2P-live streaming protocols in the future. Especially one will be coming out this summer by the very same creator who had invented the BitTorrent.

It could be possible that later, there will be more people having their own sites where a lot of people can go there to create their own unique channels for the world to see.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

I'm addicted to those HBO or whatever high quality series you have there, like Dexter, SG-U, House, True Blood etc. doesn't matter... Always download them in 720p, my PC can't handle 1080p, I assume it's the video card's fault. New episodes are usually finished downloading by the time I'm ready to watch it, that is after I make me some tea and sandwich. Then I play it on KMplayer and "drag and drop" it on my secondary screen, that is my TV - connected via hdmi right into my PC. No inconvenience for me at all. finding the right subtitles can be a pain though. There is little more annoying than subtitles out of sync for me...

You are right about subtitles. There are a lot of bad ones as much as there are a lot of good ones too. Sometime you have to wait a little longer for the proper one to appear. Knowing the best uploaders and bookmarking the right sites does help.

I have no problem with 1080p blue ray rips on my pc. It maybe a combination of your cpu and gpu. And how much RAM you have available to play it.

 

[holy king]

25€ for 20Mbit, cable.

 

[Mustakrakish]

And how much RAM you have available to play it.

3gb..

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

3gb..

You use VLC? I have around 7 Gb with over 5 being available. I have to turn off any other resource-hog apps though, but I can browse the net with no problem while running a movie.

 

[Kerozine]

Canada; CAD$29 (21 euros) for a 5 Mbps DSL connection capped at 200-300 gigs. <3 Netflix.

 

[Verbose]

Sweden:
&#8364;85 for telephone, 12-24 mbt ADSL, televion (60 channels, mostly crap) &#8212; which sort of maxes out what we can get where we live, which is in the countryside, meaning no actual broadband connection, and we get to pay a premium for having set ourselves up in the sticks.

 

[Rhymes]

Like Canada

I pay $100 for 50mb down and a 150gb cap. (Technically it's only $60 for me as my roommate contributes $40)

I pay 47$ for the same thing in Montreal