Using this converter sold by Apple, I was able to hook up to our television
When the cable bill came last month, Teressa had had enough. This time it was AT&T jacking the price up. Teressa had cancelled Time Warner the year before when they had done the same thing. This year it was AT&T's turn. For a while we entertained the idea of getting satellite, but we were seeing a pattern here. What was going to keep the satellite company from doing the same thing to us in a year? Add to this the fact that we just don't watch that much television. There are a total of two shows that we consider must see television—24 and Psych. In the past, we have had times when we made due with rabbit-ear antennas, but our televisions are the old analog kind, so that would have necessitated buying converter boxes. Then Teressa ask, "Do you think you could hook up the computer to the TV?"
Well, that seemed like a good idea. After some research, it became apparent that this was easier to do with a digital television, but with the right connectors, it should work in theory. I found the video converter pictured above that Apple sells. Now I should only need an s-video cable and an audio cable. So I went to Radio Shack. The Radio Shack guy didn't quite believe I could pull it off. He was wrong.
So now we watch our TV over the Internet. iTunes, Hulu and Netflix all work great. It may be a little harder to watch sports, but it's not exactly like we were getting a lot of BYU games anyway. And all for less than the price of one month's worth of cable. I love technology.
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Just this past week, Seth and I talked about doing the same thing. We already have a computer hooked up to the TV, and we barely changed our Netflix subscription to include all the instant movie/TV watching on our Wii that we could ever want, so we might be canceling our satellite very soon. The only things we currently watch on there are Disney channel (but Netflix has a lot of preschool-aged shows) and the occasional post-10 p.m. show while one of us is trying to get Miri to go to sleep. We'd save $45/month. Sounds pretty good to me.
You guys are still following 24!! Emily and I are faithful watchers and love it. Crazy mad that they are canceling it. This might be one show that we would buy the series. We don't even have cable. We just have the basic channels that can be recieved through the bunny ears, but we get it clearly for $15.00 a month. We found the same thing prices keep going up and we don't watch a fourth of whats out there. We do miss the Discovery, History and NAT GEO channels, but we would be wasting so much more time if we had it.
Now that 24 is going away there is not going to be much on so we may just turn it off more.
We are going to miss you all when we go. Ya'll have been great friends.
We watch TV over the internet too. The kids only watch Netflix and (occasionally they'll watch some you tube). I love it because it's so cheap and there's no commercials.
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