Satellite TV Irony
The other day the satellite dish on top of the building we live in went nuts and scrambled (”pixelated”) the picture. This made all of the shows our two TiVo’s taped worthless (unless you enjoy wacked video and the occasional click and squeek from the speaker).
The first day of the DirecTV outage we missed one show on NBC (Medium). I went to the NBC site and learned that you can stream *some* of their shows via the web. I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice that you can’t stream all of them (ER!).
So anyway I hooked up the MacBook Pro to the TV using the HDMI cable adapter and put the TV in anamorphic mode and we watched Medium just fine, albeit a little jerky from the frame rate perspective. At the time I assumed you could watch all the NBC shows via the web so I setup a different show to record from the TVMiniHD HDTV adapter later that night.
The next day we watched the show recorded in HD via the MacBook Pro on the TV in anamorphic mode and it was great! Only then did I realize you can’t watch ER from the NBC website directly, had I known I would have taped it instead!
The ultimate irony was when we watched Medium streamed over the internet, the one commercial interruption was a DirecTV ad that repeated every so often between segments of the show. The reason we had to watch it over the internet was due to a DirecTV dish problem!
The universe enjoys poking fun at us sometimes..
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