Catching Up With Favorite TV Shows

I love watching TV. But there are so many shows, especially with the new heroes-dvd.jpgFall TV season that it's difficult to catch up with everything that's really good. The problem with TV is that there are too many channels and not enough time. That's why I use Tivo, and my cable company's HD-DVR to record shows that are on at the same time. Recently, I've started watching Heroes on NBC. I decided to skip watching the first season on TV and planned on catching up by watching it on NBC.com, and via DVD. So now that the first season is out on DVD, I watched a lot via NetFlix, but I also had many other options. LifeHacker lists six ways to catch your favorite TV shows. But they don't quite have the same things I list here. Here are all the ways, consumers could watch Heroes. Broadcast TV. I didn't watch it via regular broadcast TV but I could have. Heroes was on against "24" on Fox, which I've been watching for years. So I decided to wait and watch Heroes on DVD or on-demand. Tivo or other DVR. Again, I chose not to watch it live or even near-live. I didn't Season Pass it. I didn't mind waiting until the following season to catch up. My DVR is chock full of shows and I figured I could just buy the DVD of the first season or watch it on NBC.com. Watch Instantly on NetFlix. heroes-netflix.jpgAs a member of NetFlix, I discovered that I could watch the first two episodes of Season 2 on NetFlix.com. It's "Watch Instantly" feature allows customers to watch streaming video of movies and TV shows. Somehow, I missed the first two shows of Heroes season 2, but NetFlix had them both. The upside? No commercials, and very good quality. The downside? It was on my PC, not TV. And it's only available on Internet Explorer, not FireFox. Divx via BitTorrent. Ok, here's the deal. I couldn't wait until Heroes came out on DVD. I downloaded a few episodes via BitTorrent and started watching them while I was on the treadmill, or on the computer. Again, it was on my PC and not on my TV. NBC.com. Episodes of Heroes are available on NBC.com almost immediately after they air. I watched the first episode of Season 2 on NBC.com, but it wasn't the best experience. They have commercials--although not as many as appear on broadcast TV. But the quality is good. The first three episodes are available now.nbc-heroes.jpg Via Cable's On Demand. On some cable systems, you can catch up with recently broadcast shows via the On-demand systems. DVD. I used NetFlix to rent a DVD of Heroes to watch it since it was, ahem, faster than getting them through BitTorrent. The problem? DVDs don't come out until many months later, after they appear on TV. The good part? They come with extras, including subtitles and other video extras. Heroes is currently on sale at on Amazon, of course. So, if you're looking to watch TV shows, or if you missed the broadcast. Use one of these methods. Enjoy [tags] Heroes, NBC, NetFlix, Tivo, LifeHacker [/tags]
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  1. Jake says:

    Well, with Netflix you *can* watch Heroes on your TV…if you have the right stuff. As the Netflix DRM has been cracked, you can download the videos and save to your PC. If you have an Xbox 360 on the same network as your PC, you can share the videos through Microsoft’s Zune software with your 360. This will let you watch DRM-free videos free to Netflix customers on your Hi-Def TV. Even though the quality is a bit lower, it’s not bad…

  2. Jose Alvear says:

    Thanks for the info. I wasn’t even thinking about looking at cracked kind of content–except for the BitTorrent stuff, I guess!

    Anyway, I’ll have to look into the cracked NetFlix DRM in a future post.

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