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Watch Erica’s Tivo…then wish for something else to do.
Erica Sadun over at O’Reilly has decided to start a little experiment. After much talk about the legality of sharing TV shows, she has decided to allow one person at a time to instant message her via iChat and watch her Tivo. Its a fairly simple setup, but I’ll let her explain it.
What I’ve done is this: I’ve hooked the output of my TiVo into my ADVC-100 video converter and from there into my Macintosh. That means whenever I video chat, you see (and hear) my TiVo instead of seeing (and hearing) me. IM me with the show you want to see and we’re good to go. This may be madness, this may be unwise, but I’m curious to know how this all plays out.
Do you have a mac? Sound like fun? Send her an email, and hook something up! Then report back here and let me know how it goes because I don’t really give a crap.