internet TV

[dbskyler]

My television is broken at the moment, so to make up for this lack, I have been searching out television programming on the internet. And what a bounty I have found! Free, legal bounty! Tonight I watched an old episode of The A-Team at NBC.com and was amused to recognize none other than Marc Alaimo, who played Gul Dukat on Deep Space Nine! It was a lot of fun to see him doing scenes with Murdock, played by Dwight Schultz, and imagining that this was actually some weird time-traveling meeting between Dukat and Schultz' TNG character, Reginald Barclay. Then I discovered the original Battlestar Galactica, with Galactica 1980 mislabeled as "season two." LOL! But it's not all decades-old TV classics on the internet. There are new episodes, too. CBS.com has Big Bang Theory. Comedy Central has The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Syfy.com has Being Human. CWtv.com has Ringer. And PBS.org has Downton Abbey, but unfortunately only season two, and I'm still on season one (but the next DVD is in my Netflix queue!)

I really ought to hurry up and get the TV fixed, but I find that I am surprisingly in no particular hurry. Of course, new Doctor Who won't be on for a long time. ; )

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I never actually use my TV to watch TV shows. I sometimes use it to watch DVDs (or, even more rarely, VHS tapes). The rest of the time, I watch on my computer.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I still prefer to watch on the TV, but I freely admit that I watch a lot of crap on television simply because it's there. Having to search shows out on the internet is forcing me to be more selective.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I doubt I'll even be able to get a signal on my TV for much longer - we're all switching over to digital, and my tiny portable's an old analogue!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

You should be able to buy a converter, but it might not be worth it.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Actually I couldn't - not for this TV set because it's too old. And no, it wouldn't be worth it even if I could. I watch too little British TV to make it worth my while.

[ghost2.livejournal.com]

I ought to look up some classic shows on the Internet. I freely admit, I would die without "regular" television (I watch a ton of it and much prefer the experience of "live" viewing on a TV to watching on my computer), but there's so much more I'd like to see that is not currently available on the channels I get.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I was surprised at how much classic TV is just sitting out there, freely and legally accessible on the internet.

I do want to get my TV fixed -- I'm not one of those people who's willing to do without it and switch to the internet completely -- but this has been an eye-opening experience.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, glad you're having fun out of your TV breaking. You're being all Chestertonian! ("An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered..." ;-D)

Are you enjoying Downton? (Well, presumably if you sent for the next disc you didn't hate it, but I can imagine a person would look at it more sceptically post-hype, rather than when it was all new and took us by surprise. Still, Maggie Smith is never not awesome, :lol:)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered..."

Ooh, I like that!

I am indeed enjoying Downton. I started out by trying to watch the current shows on PBS, but got quickly lost, so switched to watching from the beginning via Netflix. I've only seen the first two episodes, but I think I'm addicted!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, so I do I - I found it in a book of quotes, and my favourite thing about it is that the essay it's apparently from is entitled "On Running after one's hat". :-D

Oh, cool. I love it, as you've gathered. (Everybody, but obviously Maggie Smith as Violet - and also Mrs Hughes and Carson. And Michelle Dockery is so good as Mary, because she, and the writing, took me from disliking her to rooting for her.) I found some bits of S2 disappointing (although less so than most other people did, I think) but the Christmas special really pulled everything back up again. (I don't think it's spoilery to say that, but I'll keep quiet until you're caught up now.)

[pitry.livejournal.com]

The A-Team! Huh. Oh, the joys of things on the internet :D

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

LOL, yes! I didn't actually go looking for The A-Team, but when I saw it sitting there at NBC.com, I just had to click on it. And then I got Marc Alaimo, and ended up watching the whole episode.

(Obviously my proclivity for crap TV hasn't been completely lost by having to watch via the internet . . . *g*)