TV versus Webstreams

Its TV through an aerial or dish for me.

Big business knows enough about me already without handing them my tv watching habits. Watch TV through the web and in time your ISP and the TV channel will add you to their frequent flyer list.

We already receive targeted web ads, and google is getting scarily good at predicting my websearches, which is really embarrassing when a relative uses the computer and gets popup "dating" ads from milfs in my area that are too good to be true.

Give it time and streamed TV will start loading intelligent ads. Instead of Amy Solaris selling washing powder, James Reed pushing jobs, Peter Andre doing anything except sing and creepy dentists, us discerning gentlemen will be bombarded with ads for durex, singles holidays, divorce lawyers, red hot gambling, dating sites, sex toys and lingerie. Which gets embarrassing when your kid/other half/parents/neighbours only get family friendly ads for the same shows at the same times.

I also want adult stuff on a whopping big tele not a tiny computer screen. Even if I put the webstream through the tele, I still cant record it (or Freeview), unlike Sky.

My internet connection drops quite a lot, unlike TV signals.

(At least I get a halfway decent connection, unlike anyone in the countryside - do your job Ofcom and force ISPs to spread profits round. Lack of water, electricity or a phone would not be acceptable, why not broadband?)

Occasionally I have to reset the router or IP address, particularly when a website crashes a transaction. Routers burn out. It might only be after a few years, but it can take a week to buy a new one.

At other times I max out my connection, or other members of the household do, with data and software downloads.

More importantly, there are literally 10s of webstreams out there, many of which feel stale, aimed at other markets, or like a private porn video. A TV channel is a TV channel, but the webstream of a TV channel is just one of many webstreams. Dont ask me why, but there is something about watching a licenced UK TV channel tens of thousands of viewers that adds to the turn on. We have all seen a topless woman, but seeing one live on, say, the Brits, would have a bigger effect than the same level of exposure in a porn video.

I do a bit of both, it depends what I'm doing at the time. I'd like to be able to do better caps though from the webstream as I can only get a smallish window or full screen - anyone know how to get an adjustable window?

I've got loads of recorded on sky+ that I need to transfer too!

I've been out of the Uk since 2008 so it's web only. I did used to miss the channels but they got more more and boring so then it didn't matter. I suppose I'm out of touch now. I'm just nostalgic for the old days of Sasha on BangBabes, Bonnie Simon Angel Long , Caz, and Avalon on Sport, and of course the amazing stuff on Babestar.

Now I've sorted out my proxy and can actually see some of the webshows I'm impressed by BS Unleashed, but miss the thrill of seeing what you're weren't meant to if you know what I mean.

purely on the web for me. but i dont like visiting websites as they have to much scripting to track you.

so i decided sod that, and learned how to sniff links and create my own channel list to run in vlc, xbmc/kodi and iptv. and while it was pretty shaky at first the streams for the most part are now stable... (all except RLC, the fact that they want to charge you to view fta content just tells you how backward looking they are, it aint 1998 poeple).

now i can watch everything from babestation, all of s66, xpandeded, bs24 and rlc all from 1 player.
1 thing i would ask from any of the channel engineers if there reading is to send me to correct parsing for #EXTM3U/m3u8 streams.
my pm box is open...