Comments on: Life Without Comcast: Watching the Inauguration…or Trying To, at Least

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By: Pictures of the Day: Inauguration Tech

Pictures of the Day: Inauguration Tech — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:16:21 +0000

[...] sites experienced difficulties meeting demand, leading others to placeshift their own content or to catch inauguration coverage on a television. I fell into the latter category, spending much of the day parked on the couch watching CNN HD. [...]

By: Wirecutter

Wirecutter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:18:06 +0000

I didn’t get the memo but I did keep my 100 odd something dollars that Comcast takes from you each month

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:57:00 +0000

Didn’t you get the memo- 2007 was the year of Internet video…
I watched CNN HD via Comcast on my big screen.

By: Wirecutter

Wirecutter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:46:39 +0000

I know, I killed my cable over a year ago now. I get HD from over the air. but when I need my fix of “enter your fav 24/7 news channel here” a slingbox works very nice as a backup.

By: weekndr

weekndr — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:33:16 +0000

We had Hulu on at work and the audio was okay but the video was frozen about 10 percent of the time.

By: Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:23:27 +0000

Yes, an antenna from Radio Shack brings in a bunch of HD broadcasts from local stations for free! It’s amazing how much bandwidth you can broadcast over air as opposed to cramming it into a cable or Internet connection.

By: Jared Newman

Jared Newman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:13:08 +0000

@tced:

Ditto. Bunny ears and a digital tuner work wonders.

By: dend

dend — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:45:53 +0000

Inauguration day 2009 streaming in HD on CNN web-site: watch on CNN High speed and quality is checked!

By: tced

tced — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:26:52 +0000

Here’s a clever idea – broadcast TV. I watched it high definition from my local TV station. I even had a choice of stations because they were all broadcasting it. No Comcast. No broadband. Free.