How does the Apple TV work?
You pay $100 bucks (a little more for HD) and that's it. All it does is go on the internet and run what are essentially apps (like what you run on your phone) but through your TV screen. It's not really as powerful as a computer, or even a phone. That's why they can't get away with charging as much for it (since all it does is play streaming video in a really simple way for integrating with a plasma screen). Basically you use it to watch shows through streaming video apps. Some apps are free, some apps cost a subscription or require that you have a subscription with whatever company made the app. Netflix for example has an Apple TV app, and if you have a Netflix account, it'll ask you to log in to access movies and shows through it. Hulu has a similar thing for current TV shows. Also, ESPN has an Apple TV app, where if you have log in information with a cable TV account that carried ESPN, you can enter it in and watch ESPN & non-televised ESPN games through the app. HBO has a similar App to ESPN's. You can do something similar with a PS3 or Xbox, but if you don't want a game console and you think different Apps are a better alternative to cable TV, it's a good product. If you have a bunch of other apple products at home (macbooks, iphones, ipads) it's really easy to sync them with your apple TV, if you want to stream stuff from your gadgets onto your TV. They don't cost that much to make, and I think apple wanted a lot of people using it at some point, so they price it at something semi-reasonable (hoping maybe they'd go out and get iphones and ipads to go with it, a "loss-leader" kind of thing.) Roku, which is a competitor of Apple TV, is about 30 bucks cheaper for both regular and HD models though.
My mom favors my younger brother?
My brother is a little over a year younger than me and my mom has always liked him better. She gave him the biggest bedroom in the house, he has a huge bed, he has his own tv and all three game systems, his own computer, etc. Meanwhile I have the smallest room in the house and I sleep on a military grade cot. I always have to do tons of chores while my brother just gets to do whatever he wants and my mom spoils him. She takes him out with her and leaves me here to do chores. She takes him to eat places and whenever they go out she always buys him stuff but I never get anything. He goes to a private school that my mom drives him to every day. I go to public school and have to take the bus. She gives him money for lunch everyday while I have to eat peanut butter sandwiches. She has admitted he is the favorite son many times to me. She says that she and I are like "oil and water." She has told me that she purposely did not breastfeed me because she was disappointed with how I turned out when I was born, but she says that my brother's birthday was the best day of her life. She breastfed my brother until he finished kindergarten. She told me that she and my dad will be paying for my brother's college but not mine because the money would be wasted on me. She buys my clothes from goodwill but he gets brand new clothes. She takes him on vacation but not me. There are tons of pictures of my brother in our house but none of me. She gives him gifts on my birthday. I am so sad about it.
What kind of dog does Tommy own in the TV show "Rescue Me"?
In Season 4 of "Rescue Me" Tommy (Dennis Leary) takes home a stray dog. Does anyone know what kind of dog it is? Maybe it's just a mut, but I think it looks a lot like an Irish Wolfhound, just doesn't seem as tall. I googled it to see if maybe they had some random facts about the TV show, but I didn't find anything about the dog. I know this is a silly question, but I'm curious, so do me a favor and don't give answers like "who cares" or "I don't know"...
Robert Taylor on Longmire looks a lot like a popular TV actor in the 70s?
The guy who plays Longmire on the show of the same name, Robert Taylor-- he reminds me of an actor that was in lots of shows in the 70s and 80s. Bugging me who he favors strongly-- wondering if anyone has any suggestions of who the old actor was.
Do you prefer watching YouTube or TV?
With my Roku, I could watch YouTube ON my TV.Both television and YouTube entertains me. Television is a traditional medium while YouTube is more user-created. YouTube is less corporately controlled than television, but that doesn’t quite make it better. Television is too commercial, but that doesn’t make it worse.I think large corporations have put YouTube in a vice of what can and can’t go there. Before it got so flag-friendly, I could look at nearly every old show on YouTube I wanted to. Unfortunately, because of copyright rules, YouTube closed a lot of those outlets off. Is it because the original content creators plan on doing something with these now-blocked shows?On many occasions, no. They’ll just rot in a vault and only available when the studios want them to be, which could be next week, next month, next year, or , in most cases, never. When they’ll never release them, this is why I favor studios putting more of those older shows into the public domain.