No Suggestions but just wanted to point out the contrast. Baz and I just bought a massive 50 inch tv and have pretty much all the channels that Sky sattelite offers. AND we download a few of the tv shows we watch because we are too impatient for them to limp across the pond.
I feel a touch nostalgic when I remember my carefree, single, childless, tv free days. In fact rogers tv called one day to inform us that they were ending our free cable....only we didn't have a tv and had no idea that we had free cable.
How times change. Or perhaps how times can change you.
Wow. That is a lot of TV. I guess you use it to watch sports mostly, right?
I just find that TV is mainly a huge waste of time, I work all day, come home and if I watch TV the evening is gone with nothing to show for it. It is really frustrating also, to be exposed to all the adverts. I HATE car commercials, and fast food commercials. The only show we watch right now is watched on the computer. And podcasting is just so much better than "old fashioned" TV. :)
In a locally produced documentary we saw recently (all about the bicycling movement in Vancouver, You Never Bike Alone), this guy turns to the camera and says something like "Kill your TV. Grow your own vegetables. Meet your neighbours." I am really into simplifying things lately. Especially now that I am packing for our move and wishing we didn't have so much stuff. :)
I quit watching TV severals years ago, and I've had more funky technical solutions to the "how do I watch this without a TV" than, well, most people. All because I like video games and don't like TV.
There are two ways to get video signals onto a computer monitor: with or without a computer. Now, the "without a computer" part is sort of iffy. You don't want to go that way - trust me, I've been there, the hardware is too rare and quirky, and there are no guarantees it'll work with your setup.
There are also two ways to get video signals into a computer: via an internal digitizer, or an external one. Internal digitizers are a no-go, they require internal card slots in the computer, and the only Mac with such slots is the Mac Pro (and Power Mac G4/G5).
This leaves you with one option: Buy an external (FireWire or maybe USB) video digitizer. It'll probably set you back a few hundred (US) dollars, but on the other hand you'll be able to turn your VHS tapes into digital video
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I feel a touch nostalgic when I remember my carefree, single, childless, tv free days. In fact rogers tv called one day to inform us that they were ending our free cable....only we didn't have a tv and had no idea that we had free cable.
How times change. Or perhaps how times can change you.
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I just find that TV is mainly a huge waste of time, I work all day, come home and if I watch TV the evening is gone with nothing to show for it. It is really frustrating also, to be exposed to all the adverts. I HATE car commercials, and fast food commercials. The only show we watch right now is watched on the computer. And podcasting is just so much better than "old fashioned" TV. :)
In a locally produced documentary we saw recently (all about the bicycling movement in Vancouver, You Never Bike Alone), this guy turns to the camera and says something like "Kill your TV. Grow your own vegetables. Meet your neighbours." I am really into simplifying things lately. Especially now that I am packing for our move and wishing we didn't have so much stuff. :)
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There are two ways to get video signals onto a computer monitor: with or without a computer. Now, the "without a computer" part is sort of iffy. You don't want to go that way - trust me, I've been there, the hardware is too rare and quirky, and there are no guarantees it'll work with your setup.
There are also two ways to get video signals into a computer: via an internal digitizer, or an external one. Internal digitizers are a no-go, they require internal card slots in the computer, and the only Mac with such slots is the Mac Pro (and Power Mac G4/G5).
This leaves you with one option: Buy an external (FireWire or maybe USB) video digitizer. It'll probably set you back a few hundred (US) dollars, but on the other hand you'll be able to turn your VHS tapes into digital video ( ... )
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