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Now we go waaaaay off into the tall weeds. Yes, Acorn.tv offers for streaming a reasonably broad spectrum of British TV, and Australian, and New Zealand, and Irish, and.... well some real quality stuff from the rest of the English speaking planet. And some non-english if you are into sub-titles. <BR>
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A lot of it is recent; some, like much of the Masterpiece Mystery covers the whole span of series like Poirot. Some is obviously really old. (meaning format is non-wide screen and obviously transferred from film.) <BR>
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Not 100%, but plenty to watch, and we find it interesting to see the points of view of these various other countries. (eg, not just what they export to the US.) <BR>
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The Roku box will also stream a small number of current local PBS program, (free) and Amazon Prime has some amount of PBS material. (most of which is free - included with Prime.) <BR>
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As noted above - it all "just works" after you shell out for a little Roku stick. Which, after I burned up an HP notebook (video de-soldered itself apparently) watching Acorn on it, seems like a much better plan. <BR>
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On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:13 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
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Acorn? Gets BBC? DO TELL!
On April 12, 2017 10:10:27 AM EDT, Neal Rhodes <<A HREF="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</A>> wrote:
>Now, when people say cord cutting, in my mind, I also hear "technology
>cutting" too. On the occasions when I do have time to watch
>something, my immense preference is for something that "just works".
>
>Being able to come home, open a bottle of wine, start fixing dinner and
>just say "Alexa, play some music by Bix Biderbeck" and ... it just
>works... is infinitely better than dorking about with yet another
>recalcitrant computer for 15 minutes to get music. (also being able
>to holler "Alexa, add mustard to my shopping list" while my head is
>stuffed in the fridge, and having that show up on my shopping list on
>my
>phone whilst at Krogers is almost magic. )
>
>In a similar vein, while impressed at reading the length to which
>people
>will go to record digital broadcast tv, we have found that a Roku box,
>the Amazon Prime video we already have for free with Amazon Prime
>shipping, and the Acorn subscription for BBC stuff is more than we
>would
>ever be inclined to watch. And aside from the $5/mo for Acorn, there
>is no ongoing cost, and it truly "just works".
>
>On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 09:45 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I saw Rick and Morty the other night.
>>
>>
>>
>> Finally, there's a cartoon character I can use as a role model. Thank
>> you Rick!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2017 7:37 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<A HREF="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</A>> wrote:
>>
>> What's good on TV?
>>
>> NOVA, Frontline
>> For example, here's a NOVA episode called "The Nuclear
>Option"
>> <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/video/2365930275/">http://www.pbs.org/video/2365930275/</A>
>>
>> It is about thorium molten salt nuclear reactors that burn
>> current
>> nuclear waste to much smaller amounts (about 10% of the
>total)
>> and leave
>> waste with just a 69 yr half-life, not thousands of years.
>>
>> There's a cool youtube video showing a meltdown for a Molten
>> Salt
>> Reactor in Utah in the 1950s. They had visitors during the
>> test, but
>> when none of the guys working the meltdown test started
>> running, so the
>> visitors figured it must be safe enough. The reactor
>> temperatures rose
>> higher and higher after all reaction controls were removed
>...
>> then the
>> reactions started slowing until they stopped - with zero
>> positive
>> controls needed. No power. No pumps. No explosion. Do
>nothing,
>> you end
>> with a fizzle, not a boom.
>>
>> There are multiple "new energy" companies performing designs
>> of this
>> type. Nothing full scale in the USA. I've seen a few
>> proposals for
>> 20-30 yr modular reactors. At the end of their life, take the
>> entire
>> reactor out for processing and swap in a new one.
>>
>> China is building full-scale versions of these plants now.
>> They are
>> willing to take big chances to solve their power issues.
>> Google for
>> videos on "molten salt Nuclear Reactors china" to find more.
>>
>> NatGeo did a 2 hr episode about these reactors too.
>>
>> I'm pretty excited about a "green nuclear option" for clean
>> power that
>> works at night, without wind, and can produce power for
>> 50-200K homes,
>> without the risk of an explosive meltdown due to electrical
>or
>> pump
>> failures.
>>
>> It is the next best thing until I can have a nuclear reactor
>> under my
>> sink next to the garbage disposal. Hope they get solid,
>safe,
>> designs
>> approved and built in the USA, so we can start eating away at
>> all the
>> partially spent nuclear fuel being stored around current nuke
>> plants.
>>
>> Plus these are entertaining:
>> * Rick and Morty
>> * Squidbillies
>>
>>
>> On 04/09/2017 05:20 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> > There's stuff on TV worth watching?
>> >
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