Also see here for previous Hoops threads on the topic.

Sadly, developing would just mean "making more money from". Cheaper to recycle old sitcoms than it is to buy broadcast rights for live sport.

The more channels we get, the less watchable material we seem to have on. When some foreign Wipeout show is one of your best bets, you know you're in trouble.

I'm down to watching Good Game (ABC2, Monday nights) and little else besides the basketball.

Isaac you should buy into that board, you're rich aren't u? Don't u run iiNet or the internet or something in between?

No, not at all rich. Sorry to disappoint.

you could never disappoint

Still paying off the Ferrari?

Isaac - watch "Man vs Wild" with Bear Grylls on SBS on Monday nights...

iView FTW. If One HD goes then my broadcast TV-watching levels will officially flatline.

tom - funny stuff.

Pickles - they're expensive to run and service!

LC - I used to but they got pretty lame after a while, and I got sick of watching him drink his own urine simply for shock value.

Re: iView, someone in and around the NBL (might've been my brother?) was telling me that they were shown a demo of the new iiNet Fetch setup and everyone (probably the Hawks?) was seriously impressed. Might be worth keeping an eye on. They've started advertising it but without really showing the interface which is often the part that will make or break these things.

I've gone from hacked Xbox with XBMC, to a hacked Apple TV to now use a Samsung LCD with USB ports that recognises large, external hard drives - interface of the Samsung isn't brilliant but it's very easy to run. XBMC and ATV were a pain when trying to add (reliably) external drives over the network, etc.

Anon, I have the Series 6 55" LCD - bought it online and had it delivered from Melbourne. The interface is just trying to be fancier than it is utilitarian and not particularly slick - some of the ATV/XBMC interfaces were really attractive *and* smarter when it came to browsing. With the Samsung, you're not working against it all the time, but it could be better. Interface seems to be something all these devices (set top boxes, etc) get really wrong - our DVD player accepts a USB stick and the browsing interface for that is akin to Norton Commander from 20 years ago.

Back to the Samsung - the picture itself is excellent. There are two USB ports so we leave the two main drives plugged into those. Seems to play most things we've thrown at it so far. It also has some other connectivity options (have got a wireless dongle so it will show YouTube, etc) but I haven't really bothered exploring those.

One of my drives at home is a basic NAS and I had another at the office which died and I've replaced with a QNAP two-drive NAS. You could combine your four drives into two of those? They have built in iTunes server along with a bunch of other things I haven't experimented with yet.

Anon, many people hook up a computer to their TV these days as a media centre. That's what Isaac's talking about, essentially. So I guess you could say that the concept of "computer" meaning a box connected to a monitor in your study isn't always valid now - it's quite simple to watch internet-delivered stuff on a TV.

Also, regarding FetchTV specifically, if you go to the website you'll see they offer a set-top box which you can trivially connect to your TV. re. the quality of the content provided, I guess YMMV on that one.

Yes, Fetch is a set top box connected to your TV. This is how TV will work in the future IMO.