So ... how's it going?

A few weeks back, I wrote about our switch from satellite TV to web-based programming (supplemented by a digital antenna or two for over-the-air programming).

How's it working?

Quite well, thanks. Netflix on the PS3 is slick and loaded with content. The DVDs we'd been renting from Redbox for Jack are all on there, plus a couple hundred more. Hulu Plus has a huge archive of TV shoes - I'm almost caught up on The Office now, for example.

The iMac is hooked up to the downstairs TV, ready for browser-only content (like the Tour de France). The picture quality isn't quite spot-on HD, but it's close.

The only real hiccup has been the upstairs antenna, which is surprising. That's the antenna which had been in place for nearly three years. It got moved downstairs for a couple of weeks, then came back upstairs. For whatever reason, it's not pulling in the NET channels well - or at all, sometimes.

An outdoor antenna may be the next investment, since it will also pull in Fox. For about 355 days a year, Fox is completely and utterly worthless. But it has the Super Bowl (mild importance), regular Saturday baseball games (a little more important) and at least half of the baseball players (more important). Are those few events worth $80 and a chunk of my time? Maybe, maybe not.

Anyway, the addition will be easy, because we already have a coaxial cable running from the roof to upstairs TV. I'll just have to yank the dish and mount the antenna. Shouldn't be a big deal.

With the exception of the NCAA championship football game, I haven't missed the dish at all. And even for that game, I would have had only a passing interest. I suspect it will be like that for other events, too.

So yeah, we might miss things now and then. But it's only TV. And I'll take the $45/month.