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8Feb/102

NBC slows live streaming coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics

Perkins Miller, senior VP of digital media for NBC Sports & Olympics, acknowledges that the television product remains the core business. “If you look at the way the folks in the corner office have programmed the Olympics for decades, and done so with tremendous success, what it reflects is that people want to watch the Olympics while sitting in front of their 50-inch television when it is most convenient for them,” he says. “This is something we continue to support strategically.”

If this article is accurate, NBC may be greatly reducing their live streaming coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics. In 2008, NBC live streamed over 2,200 hours of live coverage of the Beijing Summer Olympics.

I wonder if that much live streaming had more to do with the time difference between China and the United States than an actual interest in developing the Internet streaming market. Perhaps NBC figured that viewers would be searching the Internet for event results anyway, so NBC might as well create the most compelling Olympics site possible.

In 2010, the Winter Olympics are in Vancouver, so there is not as much of a time zone concern. The good news is that most of the events will be online, both in highlight and complete form, but only after the event has aired.

To be fair, businesses have to look after the most profitable interests first. TV programming and advertising still brings in the most revenue. It simply doesn't make sense for the major networks to create revenue streams that take away from their main interest: TV programming.

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13Jan/103

Internet TV headaches

Internet TV can be liberating when it works, but frustrating when it doesn't (iStockphoto)

Since February 2009, I've been running an experiment to see if I could go without a cable television. I've found that with a few exceptions, I haven't missed my cable subscription at all. Downloading my television content via the Internet has been quite a learning experience. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't, you want to want to just tear your hair out.

Here are a few Internet TV headaches:

1. Right now, it's still pretty complicated

Sometimes, you just want to turn on the TV and veg out. Watching Internet video in your living room involves hooking up a computer to your TV, downloading and properly configuring a media server program, and installing the required plugins (more on this later) to watch certain content.

2. The technology can be finicky

Many of these media server programs (like PlayOn, Tversity, and XBMC) are mostly very specialized, often finicky, web browsers. These web browsers connect (sometimes using plugins) to content sites like Hulu and Netflix to retrieve the video from the website. This sounds great, in theory. If the content site changes the way the video is presented, the media server program can't access it until someone releases a patch. The patch works until the content site changes again. Then, another patch is needed. This cycle is tiresome.

3. The hardware needed to run the media server programs can be expensive

If you have a spare computer lying around, you might be able to use it as a the center of your Internet TV media rig. However, some computers might not have enough processor power to decode the Internet TV streams. Others may not have the graphical capability to display the video on your television without dropped frames and out-of-sync sound.

However, this might change very soon. Boxee is releasing the Boxee Box, which is a self-contained piece of hardware that runs a copy of the Boxee media center software. The Boxee Box is supposed to cost about $200, much less than a new computer. I think I might have to get one when it comes out....

Good News: It's getting better

I truly believe that 2010 is the year that Internet TV catches on, provided a few things happen:

More low-priced, self-contained solutions like the Boxee Box hit the market.
Service providers don't drastically raise prices on broadband Internet service.

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Tell me about your Internet TV experiences! Comment in the comments section of this post or send me an e-mail!

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11Dec/092

Break free from (and cancel!) your cable or satellite subscriptions (Part IV): My setup vs. the New York Times

Internet Video replaces Cable and Satellite Subscriptions

Summary

This post is a bit long, so here's the capsule summary:

The New York Times details an entertainment setup to acheive "cable freedom." (Thanks to a reader for telling me about this NYT article!)
The setup includes an Xbox 360 and a Mac Mini.
The NYT's setup requires some knowledge about which services to access for certain types of content. It also requires the user to use a mouse (preferably wireless) to navigate on the Mac Mini. This can all be pretty complicated.
My personal setup (which I believe greatly streamlines the process) includes a Sony Playstation 3 and a Windows Vista PC running Media Mall's PlayOn Digital Media Server.
PlayOn sends content to the Sony Playstation 3 and can be controlled via the Sony Playstation 3's interface and wireless controller (eliminating the need for a mouse and complex switching between services).

The Details

On December 10, 2009, the New York Times published this article about how to achieve "cable freedom."

The author, Nick Bilton details his setup:

Those devices are all behind me now. I disconnected everything, threw it to the side and canceled the cable months ago. Instead, now I have a Mac Mini, wireless mouse and a Microsoft Xbox hooked up to my television.

However, he did run into one slight problem:

I have to be honest, this isn’t as easy as just plugging a computer into a monitor, sitting back and watching a movie. There’s definitely a slight learning curve. One difficult part of this equation was getting used to the wireless mouse.

The use of a wireless mouse is not required, but makes his family's life easier when manipulating the setup from the couch.

The navigation options are a bit complex since he appears to be using a lot of different services at once:

Over Thanksgiving a friend graciously house-sat at our apartment. It took my wife more than an hour to write a detailed description explaining how to use our new TV setup. After explaining how to use the mouse and keyboard, we had to describe how to switch among applications.

I don't doubt that this setup works, however, I believe that all of this clicking around can be streamlined with a slightly different setup.

Streamline your Internet television experience: My current setup (Part I - The Windows Vista PC)

My personal Internet television setup includes a Windows Vista PC (vs. Mr. Bilton's Mac Mini) and a Sony Playstation 3 (vs. Mr. Bilton's Xbox 360). I know what you're thinking now. "Ronald, you're such a Mac fan. Why did you opt for the Windows Vista PC?"

Two reasons motivated by selection of a Windows Vista PC vs. a Mac for this setup:

I already owned the PC.
The program (Media Mall's PlayOn Digital Media Server) that bypasses the need for a wireless mouse and clicking around with a wireless mouse and keyboard is currently PC-only.

Media Mall's PlayOn Digital Media Server (which I reviewed in this post - currently a one-time $39.99, after a 14 day free trial), streams content from Hulu, Netflix, CNN, YouTube, ESPN, and more to the PS3. In other words, the Windows Vista PC, with PlayOn, downloads all the content from the Internet, puts the content in a format that the Playstation 3 can understand, and then sends the content to the Playstation 3.

You can control these data streams using the Playstation 3 interface and the included wireless (Bluetooth) PS3 controller, which eliminates the need for a wireless mouse or keyboard.

PlayOn is not limited for use with a Sony Playstation 3. It can stream content to the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, and many other DLNA-compliant devices.

Streamline your Internet television experience: My current setup (Part II - Sony Playstation 3)

So, now you're probably asking "Ronald, why did you opt for the Playstation 3?" There are two reasons:

The Playstation 3 is also a very capable Blu-ray player, which the Xbox 360 lacks.
Playstation 3 can access the Netflix Watch Instantly service (via a DVD provided by Netflix) with no additional charge. The Xbox 360 also has Netflix Watch Instantly access, but requires the user to upgrade to the Xbox Live Gold Membership (an additional $39.99-$50/year, depending on the current special).

Downsides of my setup

Of course, there are a few downsides to my current setup.

The Xbox 360 is the more popular gaming console. If gaming is more important to you than access to Blu-ray movies, go with the Xbox 360 instead.
Media Mall's PlayOn Digital Media Server can be finicky. Sometimes, there are outages. However, Media Mall is always very good about addressing these outages as quickly as possible. When I want to watch something during a PlayOn outage, I plug my computer directly into the television and surf directly to the services detailed in the New York Times article.

Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. This means that if you click the above links and subsequently make a purchase, I will receive a commission for referring the sale.

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10Dec/090

Streamline your workday – Telecommuting comparison 2003 vs. 2009

Telecommuting (iStock) My friend Charles and his wife just became parents recently. However, their recent trip into parenthood included some interesting twists. His wife is from Peru, and because of various decisions detailed in this post, they decided to have the child in Peru.

Telecommuting from a small town

Since the child's birth, Charles has been telecommuting from Paijan, Peru. He details some of his experience in this post.

Using Skype, I am able to make phone calls from a Dallas, Texas number at no cost (for my previous post on Skype, click here). And the broadband internet service, provided by Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, is generally quite reliable, though the speed is a little less than what I am used to back home. (Still, even the suggestion that rural farm towns in Peru would have high-speed internet access would have seemed absurd just a few years ago...there are still pockets of the United States that are without high-speed service, for crying out loud!)

Tripped up by an old technology

This, however, made me laugh.

As it would turn out, I needed to fax a signed document back to the office -- ASAP -- and we didn't have a scanner in the house. It also so happened that the wife and in-laws had driven into the city, Trujillo, which is a good hour away, and I couldn't wait for them to get back. So, I left the ranch, documents in hand, and made the short walk into town in search of a fax machine...

But after a few wrong turns and after asking for directions in Spanish that I barely understood, I managed to find a 1940s-style children's toy store that also sold pirated DVDs and copy and fax services.

The shopwoman was pleasant and offered to fax the two pages for 10 Peruvian soles (roughly $3.50). I found out later from my wife that this was a shameless gouging and that she had jacked the price up by at least 300% after judging that I didn't have a clue (and I most assuredly didn't).

Charles was living in the 21st century with his laptop, broadband, and Skype, but was tripped up by a dying technology, the fax. His telecommuting experience got me thinking about how far laptops and broadband access has come.

In the fall of 2003, I spent a semester studying at the University of London, Queen Mary. I brought my then state-of-the-art Dell laptop with me to London, but was hard pressed to find any sort of broadband access outside of an expensive Internet cafe or university facilities. Voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls like Skype? Forget it! I was still using pay phones and expensive calling cards to call my parents in the States. Charles's long distance calls to American landlines cost him nothing, after a $60/year subscription. All this, from a small town in rural Peru.

These days, if you have the right job or business, all you need is a laptop, broadband Internet access, and (maybe) a fax machine to do business. What will the future hold? I don't know, but I know that I can't wait to see it!

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7Dec/092

Streamlining your vacation with the Internet – Smartphones with GPS

Fog rolling in over San Francisco (Photo taken by the Author)

The Wife (that's going to take some getting used to!) and I just got back from our honeymoon in San Francisco. We both fell in love with the city during our trip as we walked through the streets to admire all the sights and sounds.

In the past, we traveled with our MacBooks and iPhones. This time, we decided to leave the laptops at home and see if we could actually depend on our iPhones as our sole source of information.

The iPhone Google Maps Application

For almost 99% of our navigation, we depended on the iPhone GPS and the built-in Google Maps application. In a recent trip to Los Angeles, we found that the iPhone gave adequate driving directions, but would sometimes get confused as to where you actually were located on the map. In San Francisco, we depended on walking and public transit.

The Google Maps application also gives walking and public transit directions. I was particularly impressed when the application would not only tell you which routes to take, but the bus numbers and fare as well.

Yelp

For the majority of our meals, we relied on the iPhone Yelp application. The iPhone (and many other smartphones offered by major manufacturers) include a GPS device that can target the user's location. The Yelp application enables the user to locate businesses in the user's area and read reviews of those businesses.

When we got hungry, we would pull out our iPhones, fire up the Yelp application, and start reading reviews. The Wife has Yelp analysis down to an art (which we will cover in a later post or newsletter) and has been very successful at finding some excellent meals. Here's a couple of places the Wife found via Yelp during our trip to San Francisco:

Sotto Mare - This small seafood restaurant in North Beach specializes in San Francisco's cioppino, a wonderful stew of seafood (crab, prawns, shrimp, mussels, clams, and calamari) served over penne pasta. Their Boston clam chowder was excellent as well.
Crepe O Chocolat - Near Union Square, this small, three table restaurant served up some amazing organic omelletes. This was the perfect meal for us after we got off the plane.
Golden Gate Bakery - Wow. Golden Gate Bakery makes some of the most perfect renditions of Chinese egg custard tarts and sesame balls (filled with red bean paste) I've ever had. The Wife and I were nearly shaking with excitement when we sampled these on the street outside the bakery.

Action Items

If you have an iPhone, download the Yelp application here.
If you have a Windows mobile or Android-based phone, surf to mobile.yelp.com with your mobile browser. I will look into mobile Yelp applications for Windows Mobile and Android in a future post.
Have fun on your next trip!
Share your wired travel experiences in the comments section below or shoot me an e-mail!

Note: Yelp is most effective in larger cities where there is a lot of reader participation. San Francisco and New York City are probably two of the most popular Yelp cities. Some smaller cities like Austin, Texas also have a decent Yelp audience.

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16Nov/090

Break free from (and cancel!) your cable or satellite subscriptions (Part III): Netflix on the Playstation 3

Internet Streaming vs. Blu-ray

The Playstation 3 is more than just a game console - it's actually a Trojan horse. In 2006, Sony used the Playstation 3 as a weapon against Toshiba in the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD high-definition video war. By equipping each Playstation 3 with a Blu-ray drive (and selling them at a loss), millions of Blu-ray-capable players were installed in homes all over the world. While Blu-ray offers some of the best video quality for the home market, Internet streaming services such as Netflix's Watch Instantly (which allows on-demand streaming of thousands of movie and television titles) are not far behind.

Netflix Watch Instantly on the Playstation 3

Last week, Netflix released the Playstation 3 Netflix Watch Instantly disc. If you are a Netflix subscriber and own a PS3, this disc enables your PS3 to stream movies from Netflix and display them directly on your television. I received my disc on Friday and have been really impressed by the streaming quality. I didn't notice any dropped frames, stuttering, or synching problems between the video and audio (all of these were issues with Media Mall's PlayOn Digital Media Server). However, the best part of the experience is that the Watch Instantly service offers some movie and television titles in HD! Watch out Blu-ray!

Action items

Subscribe to Netflix. Get at least the $8.99/month plan for unlimited disc rentals (one-movie-at-a-time) and unlimited Watch Instantly streaming.
If you don't already have a Playstation 3, this is the best time to buy one. Click the following Amazon.com product link to buy one now --> PlayStation 3 120 GB. The newly-redesigned PS3 is only $299. This is a great deal because a standalone Blu-ray player can easily cost $200.
Order your Netflix Watch Instantly PS3 disc here.
Load up your disc in your PS3, select a movie or television show, and enjoy!

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12Nov/090

Break free from (and cancel!) your cable or satellite subscriptions (Part II): PlayOn Media Server

TV on the Internet

While Internet TV can be used as a replacement for cable or satellite subscriptions, most people like to enjoy their television programming in their living rooms. For some, watching television on their computer screens is just not as satisfying. Enter Media Mall's PlayOn Digital Media Server!

Quick Take:

MediaMall's PlayOn Media Server streams web video to game consoles (Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and now, Wii) for display on televisions. Cautiously recommended due to impressive video quality (for web video) and easy setup (due to uPnP).

However, PlayOn suffers from inconsistent availability. Frequently, these outages are outside of Media Mall's control. Customer service (in addressing the outages), on the other hand, is stellar. Media Mall has a very active user forum. They are also known for addressing outages quickly. Cost: Initial 14 day free trial, with a one-time charge of $39.95 after the end of the trial period.

Detailed Review:

Hulu

I've been a huge fan of Hulu since the service became available to the public in March 2008. I had actually signed up for the private beta test by submitting my email address, but didn't receive an invite until after the service went public. Not only does Hulu allow me to catch up on previous episodes of some of my current favorite television shows like NBC's "The Office", "Chuck", and FOX's "Dollhouse," I've also been able to watch older shows that I missed during their original broadcast like FOX's "Arrested Development."

Slow Computer Blues

While I initially didn't mind watching Hulu on my Windows Vista HP laptop, I felt that it would be great to enjoy my favorite shows on the couch, in front of my HDTV. Until recently, my standard Hulu setup involved a direct connection between my laptop and the PC input of my television. Unfortunately, my laptop's integrated graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150) just couldn't handle the task of displaying full-screen video without jitter and distracting stutter. I tried everything: updating the drivers, downgrading to Windows XP, installing a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate, adding a USB key in hopes of taking advantage of Vista's ReadyBoost memory feature. Nothing worked.

I was ready to give up until I read an Engadget post about MediaMall's PlayOn Media Server.

Media Mall's PlayOn

PlayOn is a Windows-only (XP or Vista) media server that downloads video from Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and other Internet video sites and streams that content to a Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii or any other DNLA (Digital Living Network Alliance)-compliant networked media device. When the service is operating, the results are absolutely stunning. The video is crisp and clear, with no detectable jitter or lag. To my eyes, the quality is somewhere between standard-definition TV and DVD. Setup was a breeze too, thanks to Universal Plug and Play (uPnP). All I did was download the program, install it on my PC, turn on my PS3, select the "PlayOn" icon under the "video" option in the PS3 menu, and seconds later, I was watching "Chuck" on my HDTV. Brilliant.

After the installation of PlayOn, my PC and PS3 share the responsibilities of providing the content to my television. The PC downloads and transcodes the content into a format that the PS3 can understand. Then, the PC streams the content to the PS3 over the home network. Both wired Ethernet and wireless (802.11b, g, and n) connections are supported, but my setup allows me to have both the PC and the PS3 connected directly to my wireless router.

Plug-ins for More Content

Upon installation, PlayOn enables streams of Hulu, CNN, ESPN, Netflix, CBS, YouTube, and Amazon Video-on-Demand. Downloadable unofficial plugins (which are not supported by MediaMall) from PlayOnPlugins bring even more content (Revision 3, The Food Network, GameTrailers, HGTV, NBA, etc.) to your television.

PlayOn has a 14-day trial period where you can truly test the software to see if it's a good fit. After the trial period ends, you have to pay a one-time charge of $39.95 to continue using the software.

Action Items:

Go to http://themediamall.com and download the free, full function trial software.
Interface your PC with your Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii (or any other DNLA-compliant media client)
Enjoy Internet video on your TV
Purchase PlayOn when your 14 day trial is up!

Note: This post is an edited version of a post originally featured on the original Electronically Obsessed site.

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4Nov/090

Break free from (and cancel!) your cable or satellite subscriptions (Part I): Internet TV

Breaking Chain (iStock) Who needs seventeen premium movie channels and forty-three music channels? Who needs a terrible digital video recorder (DVR) that is slow, unreliable, and expensive? Who needs expensive monthly subscription fees?

With a television, computer, and a broadband Internet connection, you can replace all of those things. This post describes the services I use to replace my cable television subscription. A later post describes the hardware necessary to use these services.

Video-on-demand

Today, several online services offer premium video-on-demand, which effectively eliminates the hassle of dealing with a DVR. I'd rather not deal with trying to remember when to set recordings, wondering if the shows I wanted to watch actually recorded, whether I'm trying to record more than two shows in the same time slot, and the most ridiculous of all, whether or not my DVR's hard drive has enough space to record the programs I want. Also, barring any family commitments or traditions, there is absolutely no reason why a television viewer must sit in front of their television at an appointed time to consume content.

Hulu: Free (for now), ad supported

Hulu is my main source for newer content. For current TV shows, Hulu usually posts the last five episodes of a series. Sometimes, at the end of a season, the entire season is posted at once. Hulu features content from NBC, FOX, ABC, Comedy Central, and others. Noticably missing from the lineup is CBS.

Netflix: $4.99/month (Limited Plan); $8.99/month - $16.99/month (Unlimited Plans)

Netflix offers a large library of movies, television shows, and special events on DVD and Blu-ray. Netflix mails a selection of movies (specified by a user-created queue) to the subscribers. The subscribers return the movies via a postage pre-paid envelope. However, I personally use Netflix's Watch Instantly feature the most. Watch Instantly allows subscribers to watch unlimited streams of certain older titles over their Internet connection. Watch Instantly selections improve every month and feature lots of content popular movies and full seasons of "The Office" and "Lost."

Lower you subscription costs

Before I explored Internet TV options, I was a traditional cable subscriber. My monthly cable bill, which included broadband Internet, a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) rental, basic and extended cable channels (no premium movie channels like HBO or Showtime), and an ocassional movie on-demand or pay-per-view event, often averaged right around $130-150.

Today, my monthly home entertainment costs include a $52 broadband Internet bill and a $14.99 Netflix bill, for a total of about $67/month. That's a savings of about $756 a year!

Sports

One major drawback to an Internet TV lifestyle is the lack of live sports selections. You are limited to sports on the major networks and have some access to other games via live streaming sites like www.justin.tv.

However, if you are rarely home due to social, family, or work commitments, ditching your cable or satellite subscription appears to be a viable option.

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2Nov/090

Dropbox + iPhone = Your Media Everywhere

Music for the World These days, even casual music listeners can have Gigabytes of media files on their computers. While portable media devices such as the Apple iPhone allows people to carry their media with them, some desire even more flexibility in how they consume their media. One obstacle standing in the way of having such flexibility involves the limited memory capacity of their portable media devices.

For example, the Apple iPhone is currently offered in 8, 16, and 32 GB capacities. Some people own two to three times more media than even a 32 GB iPhone can hold. Dropbox offers a solution.

The Dropbox iPhone application (downloadable via iTunes) enables iPhone users to access their Dropbox account via a cellular or wi-fi connection. Especially if you have a 50 GB or 100 GB account, accessing Dropbox via your iPhone's data connection essentially increases your iPhone data storage capacity (if you have, for example, a 16 GB iPhone 3G) by three to six times.

For your free Dropbox account, go to www.getdropbox.com OR if you want to earn an additional free 250 MB bonus storage for both of us, sign up for Dropbox via this referral link. Remember, the first 2 GB of storage is free.

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28Oct/092

Moving to the Cloud: Taking Inventory

Messy Stack of CDs (iStock) That's it, dude. I got tired of all this clutter. Eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. I've reduced my entire life down to one suitcase and a single Blu-ray disk. - Jason

Admittedly, I'd always found Jason (not his real name) a bit crazy, but interesting. Jason grew up in Toronto and moved as far away as possible once he graduated from college. He ended up living in Thailand for the next nine years. During the first few years, he threw himself into the party lifestyle of Bangkok. He played in bands, stayed out late, and was quite involved in the ex-pat community.

One day, he realized that despite the constant party, he was unhappy and unfulfilled. He sought to eliminate the resource-sucking clutter in his life and concentrate his attention on things that actually interested him. He now spends his time living simply, learning new languages, and training Muay Thai kickboxing in Bangkok.

I understand that many people can't or won't go to such extreme lengths of clutter reduction. I am one of those people. However, there are many things that many people are programmed to accept. Here's a short list of time or resource-intensive things that you can eliminate today with a computer, scanner, and access to a broadband Internet connection.

Cable or Satellite Digital Video Recorder - Solution: Hulu, iTunes, and/or Netflix Watch Instantly
Stacks of CDs - Solutions: iTunes, Zune Store, Pandora, Last FM for new content; Digitize your CD collection using iTunes and put the CDs in storage (or sell them if you aren't that attached to them)
DVD/Blu-ray Movies - Solution: Buy the ones you will actually watch repeatedly; Netflix subscription for the others
Semi-important documents (e.g., receipts, contracts, etc.) - Solutions: Scan and shred. Upload the images to Amazon S3, Mozy, Dropbox and keep a local copy on a CD-R, DVD-R, Blu-ray disk, or a large capacity (750 GB or more) external hard disk drive.

So, today, make a list of things that you can eliminate or compress. If you like, feel free to share your list in the comments below. In the coming weeks, I'll go through detailed steps on my experiences with streamlining my entertainment and data using the Internet.

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