For reasons far too difficult to explain, I recently became one of those people who get every possible channel from their cable company.
So, four hundred channels, that I was prepared for. What’s new and different is the video-on-demand option when you get the whole shmear. I decided it was too difficult to use the onscreen guide or the website, so naturally I wrote an AppleScript/FileMaker combination that scrapes the web and gives me a database.
And hence I can report, with no exaggeration, that I have access to a video library of 2,981 different shows.
2,981 shows. On demand. In addition to the 24 hour feeds on the actual stations.
And the scary thing is, it’s still more convenient to use BitTorrent to download the shows I really want to watch.
Hey – welcome to the world of On Demand. After you’re done gaping at the mass of content available to you, you’ll find this: you only use about 5% of it with any regular basis.
At least that’s been my experience. And it would be far less if it weren’t for the fact that my kids have discovered a way to watch the same five cartoons over & over again with it.
Maybe your web filter will help you to locate better stuff faster. I honestly never considered scouring the web for On Demand programming guides (I’ve seen the local TV guides, but never considered that On Demand would be out there). Maybe I should look into it too. Care to post some of the source URLs you found?