{"id":1602,"date":"2010-01-01T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2010-01-01T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T15:43:45","slug":"make-your-tv-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"Make your TV smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mit-classroom.jpg' title='mit-classroom.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mit-classroom.jpg' alt='mit-classroom.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>MIT course on electricity and magnetism, iTunes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I got rid of my television when I left San Francisco, and I didn&#8217;t buy a new one until two months ago. As a movie-watching machine, I missed having a television. But I had almost forgotten how appallingly, incomprehensibly stupid broadcast television is. I don&#8217;t have cable or satellite. I just can&#8217;t justify the cost of it.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a cheap way to smarten up your television. Apple&#8217;s iTunes is available for both Macintosh and PC. The iTunes application is free to use, unless you buy a song, or a movie, or a television show through iTunes. It comes installed on Macintoshes, of course, but you can download it for your PC. In addition to songs and videos for sale, iTunes also has a lot of free content in the form of audio and video podcasts. There is also &#8220;iTunes U&#8221; &#8212; podcast courses from ivy league schools like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. I&#8217;ve been downloading the courses on physics and electrical engineering, but there&#8217;s also history, literature, language, health and medicine, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch these podcasts on your Macintosh or PC, of course. But I prefer to watch them on a larger television screen in a more comfortable room. There are two ways to get iTunes video to your television. You can use your computer to burn a DVD, and then play the DVD in your television&#8217;s DVD player. Or you can buy Apple TV, a $229 box that attaches to your television and wirelessly copies all your video and audio from iTunes to your television set. I aspire to having an Apple TV, but that has not yet come up in my miserable budget.<\/p>\n<p>Downloading video over the Internet may take some time, but it gives your computer something to do when you&#8217;re not otherwise using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT course on electricity and magnetism, iTunes I got rid of my television when I left San Francisco, and I didn&#8217;t buy a new one until two months ago. As a movie-watching machine, I missed having a television. But I had almost forgotten how appallingly, incomprehensibly stupid broadcast television is. I don&#8217;t have cable or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make your TV smart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}