{"id":2190,"date":"2010-05-14T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2010-05-14T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T16:29:44","slug":"friday-just-for-fun-site-watching-tv-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/friday-just-for-fun-site-watching-tv-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Just For Fun Site &#8211; Watching TV On The Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you  get caught playing at work)<\/p>\n<p>Back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2009\/09\/29\/what-information-do-your-readers-want\/\">in September I wrote<\/a> about using the Internet to watch TV and cut cable.<\/p>\n<p>Since then I bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.ebay.com\/?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=25%27+hdmi&amp;_sacat=See-All-Categories\" target=\"_blank\">25&#8242; hdmi<\/a> cable for $12.00 on Ebay.<br \/>\nIt goes from my computer to my TV and works really well.<br \/>\nI can now watch anything on my TV, much of it in HD.<\/p>\n<p>It works so well that I am thinking of buying a dedicated machine for just TV.<\/p>\n<p>All it would take would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=refurbished+netbook\" target=\"_blank\">refurbished netbook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=wireless+computer+remote+control\" target=\"_blank\">remote<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt would also be a DVR and if I got a laptop instead of a netbook it could be a DVD\/Blueray player\/recorder as well.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=tv+channels+live&amp;aq=1\" target=\"_blank\">What To Watch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Back in September I wrote about using the Internet to watch TV and cut cable. Since then I bought a 25&#8242; hdmi cable for $12.00 on Ebay. It goes from my computer to my TV and works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}