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Hulu To The Rescue
Uh, oh. Over the weekend we discovered that our Cable Box/DVR was dying and had to schedule to take it in and pick up a new one this morning. This isn’t a tremendous deal, except my wife has become a cable or TV provider’s worst nightmare in that she doesn’t wish to watch anything live anymore, preferring to watch things on her own timetable using the DVR. She had a number of shows she had scheduled to watch, and of course, once the box goes bye-bye, so does any show you have recorded.
But not to fear. Most of what she was looking to watch this weekend she was able to view on Hulu, so that calmed things down a bit. So, she sat down with her Netbook, fired up Hulu in her browser and seemed reasonably content with what she was able to watch.
Now there’s a tangible benefit here for couples who don’t always agree on what to watch/record. I don’t have to watch some of the shows she adores, that I secretly despise, when she’s watching them on the small screen. I’m sure some would look at a couple watching two different shows on two different mobile devices as odd. But fortunately this weekend we didn’t paint that picture as I was in rehearsals and not able to do much viewing.
How about you? How much is online TV viewing becoming a part of your lifestyle?
Xavier
08/17/2009 at 11:36 am
I’m watching more and more TV online- and yes we sometimes do the husbad/wife split screen. For some reason she always gets the HDTV and I’m using a smaller device…
Josh Einstein
08/17/2009 at 8:16 pm
Jake and I watch an episode of the A Team every week.
Philip Seyfi
08/18/2009 at 2:38 pm
Personally I ditched my TV a few years back and never looked at it again. I sometimes watch important soccer (or other sport) matches over the internet and that’s about anything I found a TV to be good for. Overall I find television a BIG waste of time and highly prefer internet which outperforms TV in most of it’s uses and allows to do so much more.
BB
08/18/2009 at 2:40 pm
I watch comparatively little TV, and on-line viewing makes a great deal of sense in this context–particularly because the one sort of program I do watch regularly are news shows from foreign sources which my local cable does not carry, and the local satellite TV company can’t send me because I don’t have a clear view of the special satellite they use for foreign programing.