On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:25:39 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 10/20/2015 6:11 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> It seems that playing iPlayer on the TV would be like watching TV.:)
>>
>>
> I wouldn't know. :-(
> I don't think I've watched TV for a couple of years except for some
> comedy programmes on Freeview*.
> 
> I lost the habit years ago before there was satellite TV. When I was on
> the rigs. Radio 4 was all we could get and that was on Long Wave.

We just recently got a cable subscription again (when I got laid off in 
2011, it was the first thing to go to save money), so we've got a handful 
of shows we're watching.  But unlike before, when it was costing us 
upwards of $130/month for a basic digital package with HD, we're now 
paying only about $30 more than we were for our Internet connection, and 
the 'net connection is a business expense (so I get reimbursed for it).

>> But yeah, I've got the iPlayer app installed on something here.  Not
>> that I can watch TV with it, but I can listen to some radio programmes
>> with it.
> 
> I use get_iplayer as a PVR.

Yeah, I've been using that for years.  But there have been instances 
where it was just more convenient to stream directly.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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