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Intel has been willing to work with Hollywood in the past. There was a lot of controversy over their inclusion of "DRM" hardware in their Sandy Bridge Chips. h

Intel has been willing to work with Hollywood in the past. There was a lot of controversy over their inclusion of "DRM" hardware in their Sandy Bridge Chips. http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/01/shows-over-how-hollywood-strong-armed-intel/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/01/shows-over-how-holly... http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/intel_insider_-_what_is_it_no/ http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2011/01/intel_insider_-_wh... I'd love for more competition in this space. If real IPTV could finally happen it would be great. I use a HTPC with Windows Media Center as my main TV, and I'm tired of dealing with the issues. Cablecard is a pain, Comcast is a pain, commercials are a pain. I just want to watch the few shows I care about. The only thing stopping me from cutting cable and just watching shows on iTunes is live sports.

senthilnayagam 14y ago
one cheap price is more interesting for me, and if the content is available on netflix, that would seal the deal for me
- Ntrails 14y ago
  All I want is to replicate the experience I can currently get from uTorrent. ie - high res content downloaded [not streamed and thus vulnerable to buffering] to watch at my leisure around the time of initial cable viewing. The price for doing this legally should probably be similar per episode to what I pay for a song on iTunes. I'm happy to pay for a netflix sub, but it doesn't do what I want. I hate buying boxed sets (though I sometimes do) because playing DvDs on my PC is worse than having a quality .avi file neatly filed and quickly accessed. In fact (I've said this here before) my ideal world is where Steam holds all of my purchased series and I can manage it all from there. It remembers stuff I no longer want clogging up my HD to be re-downloaded, and downloads the latest episodes of stuff I've bought automatically. What I want will never happen.

senthilnayagam 14y ago

one cheap price is more interesting for me, and if the content is available on netflix, that would seal the deal for me

Ntrails 14y ago
All I want is to replicate the experience I can currently get from uTorrent. ie - high res content downloaded [not streamed and thus vulnerable to buffering] to watch at my leisure around the time of initial cable viewing. The price for doing this legally should probably be similar per episode to what I pay for a song on iTunes. I'm happy to pay for a netflix sub, but it doesn't do what I want. I hate buying boxed sets (though I sometimes do) because playing DvDs on my PC is worse than having a quality .avi file neatly filed and quickly accessed. In fact (I've said this here before) my ideal world is where Steam holds all of my purchased series and I can manage it all from there. It remembers stuff I no longer want clogging up my HD to be re-downloaded, and downloads the latest episodes of stuff I've bought automatically. What I want will never happen.