Schlicken’s Response: Awesome vacuum. We see a great marketing ploy for Hoover here. Jump on that boys.
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The journey began as I was sitting in my kitchen watching a static filled show on CBS. I just moved to the town I’m in and I haven’t had the time or the money to get cable, so I’m stuck with the bunny ears. Also, lucky for me, my apartment is cinder block so my TV antenna hardly works at all. I get one channel that’s worth watching and as I watched Dr. Phil explain to me about his new 2007 format and how it was going to be more intense, I thought to myself, “what am I going to do tonight.”
I’m a football man. I love it, breathe it, drink it. I need it to survive. I was able to watch a little, Sunday, on my TV and Saturday I spent the day at local stores watching College Football. I shuffled between BestBuy, sportsbars, and restaurants, the later being difficult to do without actually spending money. I got many looks as I sipped my tap water and ate the free peanuts.
So, Monday afternoon, I decided to see if there was a way to watch cable TV at my apartment. I do have an internet connection and although it’s only DSL it works fine enough for my needs. With that internet connection I planned on watching Monday Night Football later that evening. I was pretty sure that I would find it somewhere. I’m a firm believer that anything can be found on the internet. If you haven’t found it yet, it’s most likely because you haven’t looked hard enough. That said, I started to look for ESPN. It ended up being a very long tedious journey filled with lots of B.S. sites, spam sites, scam sites, and more.
First, I knew ESPN 360 was out because it’s not offered in my area. ESPN, smartly, claims it’s the providers fault, therefore they get no complaints. I think that’s B.S.
Second, I went to Google (the internet search god) and searched p2p tv streaming. P2P streaming is the way the majority of TV is provided over the internet. The hosts rely on individuals to upload content so as to sidestep any legal issues. I searched all sites that advertised no downloads. I didn’t want to download software if I didn’t have to.
This option looked promising as I found several sites claiming to offer ESPN like wwitv, channel king, & world tv pc. Most, however, had broken links and the rest had ESPN from other countries, primarily China.
Third, I continued on the p2p streaming theme but I looked at ones with a program to download. TVU (pictured right) & Sopcast were the two most highly recommended sites. I downloaded and tried both and although they both had several good shows including: Comedy Central, CBS, Spike TV, and Nickelodeon; neither had ESPN from the U.S. From everything I was able to figure out, TVU use to have ESPN and other channels but the networks recently started making them take the content off.
By this time the game had already started and I had wasted my afternoon searching for a lost cause. My only option now was to prepare for the future so I looked into TV place shifters. They are devices you buy that send a personal TV stream over the internet. The only negative to this is you actually have to buy the product and have a cable subscription somewhere. I immediately thought of my parents. The two shifters that I found were HAVA and Sling Media (pictured left). The latter can even be bought in your local Bestbuy and other stores.
So armed with this new information and a little down from my inability to bypass corporate America I decided to get on TVU again and watch some of the channels it had. The first one I went to was CBS. Even though I have CBS here I wanted to see if they played the same content. When it popped up I was surprised to see football. At first I groaned thinking they must be playing Sunday’s football game but at a closer look I realized it was the Monday night football game on ESPN. I was dumb founded. Could it really be true?
Well, it was true. I was able to watch the last 3 quarters of Monday Night Football last night on TVU. It was on the CBS channel. I’m not sure if this will be available next week, but goodness knows I’ll be at my computer to find out.
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Schlicken’s Response: With the wings and all, it must me a unicorn.
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Police say a business owner who was having financial problems shot and killed two of his employees after they asked him for a raise.
The suspect in the murders, 38-year-old Rolandas Milinavicius, turned himself in to East Point authorities Saturday. Officials said Milinavicius was the victims’ boss.
East Point police said Milinavicius confessed to the killings. Officials said he told them he was under a lot of stress because of heavy debts with his business.
Milinavicius told authorities conversations in recent weeks with his only two employees about pay raises pushed him over the edge.
East Point detectives launched a nationwide manhunt for the Lithuanian native Thursday after his wife discovered the employees’ bodies at R.M. Auto International on Willingham Drive near Central Avenue.
A 28-year-old man and 25-year-old woman had been shot to death.
“Motive was about money. There were some problems with money in the workplace and basically the stress of him being the owner and running a business got to him,” said Capt. Russell Popham with the East Point Police Department.
Milinavicius faces two counts of murder. Officials said more charges are pending.
He is due to go before a judge at the Fulton County Jail Monday afternoon.
[Source: wsbtv.com via Offbeat News]
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