Streaming

    When I stumbled upon Hulu after hearing that they had begun streaming Daily Show/Colbert Report nightly, I was shocked at the content that was available for viewing.  How does a site get away with blatantly enabling that much copywrited material?  Seems as if Hulu isn't another random renegade YouTube-clone video hub.  Its actually a joint venture by NBC Universal and Fox.  You can find everything from Family Guy, The Office, and even great movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.  All for free, except of course, for the occasional commercial interruption.

While mobile storage options like TivoToGo and PocketDish have received alot of hype, MythTV is not to be outdone as it has some neat little mobile apps as well. myth2ipod is a Perl script created by Chris aka Wififun currently in 1.0b2 release and compatible with MythTV .19. It allows you to create video podcasts of TV programs you record, subscribe to your entire MythTV iPod library, or subscribe to single shows with only that shows episodes in the podcast. If you'd rather watch TV over WiFi, MythStreamTV is a MythTV plugin that allows live transcoding and streaming of MPEG 1/2 (PVR-x50/M-179/DVB/ATSC/HD) to Windows Media Player/Mplayer and allows control via MythWeb.  If geek factor, non-proprietary hardware, and total control over your content don't wet your whistle... remember what Grandma said, "Sometimes in life you should just taste the homebrew - it can often be much sweeter."