MythTV + Podcasting = The Future of Television?

[theFerf]

The world of vlogging, or video podcasting, is still in its infancy, but it doesn't take much imagination to see where it's going.

Dozens of video podcasts are published regularly. Many, like Rocketboom, Tiki Bar TV and the One America Videoblog are building dedicated audiences by providing content not found on television.

What's missing, of course, is the television. Watching videos on your computer is cool, but it's no replacement for the TV experience.

MythTV, an open-source personal video recorder, plus podcasting, may offer a cutting-edge taste of the future of television.



Read more... (http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/08/mythtv_podcasti.html)

Source: Podcasting News (http://www.podcastingnews.com/)
Podcasting News features the latest podcast news, along with reviews, hardware and software info, and a podcast directory.

[Steev]

Definately. In fact for nearly 2 years now, I have been using bittorrent RSS feeds that are very similar to podcasting feeds (they use the <link> tag rather than the <enclosure> tag to reference a torrent URL) with Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) to get some shows that I watch. It's very convenient.

I had written a little program to duplicate the <link>s as <enclosure>s, and tried using iPodder to download them for a while. It worked, but it had a big limitation: iPodder won't check feeds for new shows while it's downloading something. Since the television shows were ~400 megs each and often hosted on slow links, they took a while to download...

As for mythTV, you still have to have a television hookup to record things. I just got shows off the internet and used the TV-out on my video card to watch them on the television. You couldn't tell them from real television.

[bazookajoeshow]

I'm going to lead the movement by starting my Videodrome cast. I'm calling it "America's Funniest Home Snuff Videos".

Bazooka Joe