I know about Tivo but are there other ways to view tv shows in the US
besides watching them live? For example, streaming, downloading,
buying on DVD etc? I am mostly interested in the latest tv shows but
older shows could also be interesting.

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Clarification of Question by ricksterm-ga on 28 Dec 2005 16:03 PST

Also interested in new developments in this area coming soon.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 28 Dec 2005 16:10 PST

The latest development I know of is the Yahoo/CBS collaboration to
view recent shows online:


http://tv.yahoo.com/feature/cbscomedybowl.html


Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?


pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by ricksterm-ga on 28 Dec 2005 16:16 PST

Yes anything like this. Or ways to view TV in software etc etc. Any
alertnative means of viewing. Very broad parameters. Thanks.

There are lots of new things, although reactions are mixed.   Both the
Wall St. Journal and the Technology columns in the New York Times are
great resources for this kind of info.  If you have Nexis, you can
call up the articles.  Or you can go onto nytimes.com and pay per
piece.

A few things that might interest you:

AKIMBO.  (NY Times article, "TV's Future is Here.  It Needs Work."
6/2/05):  "A TiVo like set-up box, complete with hard drive.  Instead
of recording live shows, it allows you to dip into a library archive
of previously recorded programming stored on the internet."

SLINGBOX  (NY Times, 7/28/05):   I'm not exactly clear on how this
work.  It appears to be a device that you hook up to your TV and it
sends you live or recorded TV programs to your laptop when you're on
the road -- or to another computer.

"TAKE YOUR CABLE CHANNELS WITH YOU ON THE ROAD" -- New York Times,
12/21/05  Ken Belson.  I didn't read it, but saw the headline and it
looks like something that would be of interest.

IN2TV:    Warner Brothers is launching a paid subscription service,
"In2TV"--putting over 100 classic TV shows online.

And then there's things like the PSP. . . Sony's Playstation Portable.
  Many networks are providing content that can be downloaded onto the
device and taken anywhere.

This answer is worth the money in itself. Am I only able to pay one
person per question?

Dear Rick, 

Yes, but Cryptica's comment was not an answer, and so wasn't
Pafalafa-ga's "request for clarification". You haven't received an
answer yet, although you could tell Pafalafa-ga to post his "request
for clarification" as a comment. Cryptica cannot get paid, because
she's not a Google Answer Researcher, but "just" a lovely helpful
individual.

And PoliticalGuru-ga "just" made my day! Thank you!

Yes I know this. I was just wondering if I could leave the door open
for more answers. But I guess not. I would have to start another
question it seems?

The answer provided by cryptic is excellent and clearly worth the
money. I just wonder if there are also other projects out there.

Anyway cryptic, I can't pay you if you don't put your comment as an answer ....

Ricksterm -- 

Thank you, but you can't pay at all!  I'm not an official Google
researcher.   The "official" researchers are the people whose handles
are in blue hyptertext - - like Pafalafa-ga and Politicalguru-ga.  
All of us folks with names in black are "Commenters."   Sometimes we
come up with answers, sometimes we embellish answers.

And don't worry -- you don't have to close down the question and
re-post so that you can get more data.  Since I'm not an official
researcher,the "real" researchers still have the opportunity to answer
your question further and add new stuff.   I merely provided a
sampling of the kinds of things out there that I happen to know about.
 I waited a day to see if more info would be forthcoming from a
researcher and when i didn't see anything, I posted my comments.

If nobody nibbles, you might want to raise the fee you're willing to
pay, which might tempt more of the researchers.

It's a nice community here -- and everybody jumps in to help if they can.

Hey, Ricksterm --

Small world Dept.:   Look what was in the paper today!

"Google will let consumers buy video over the internet from CBS, the
NBA and other providers, becoming the latest company to explore the
new method of distributing TV content, according to a report Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the
matter, said Google plans to make the announcement on Friday at the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas."