Crazy like Foxtel

I've just moved house and finally sorted out most of the nuisance stuff that comes with a move: address changes, relocating utilities, that sort of thing.

I've moved a couple of suburbs closer to the CBD (in fact I'm now just a stroll away - wave if you see Trixie and I walk past) so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered that despite living in the centre of Australia's largest city, I can't get subscription TV. Some nonsense about strata titles, multi-dwelling complexes, Jupiter being in Mercury's quarter - that sort of thing.

What exactly made Foxtel think I'd be happy to jump through hoops for the privilege of giving them princely sums of money every month is quite beyond me.

So I saved myself the jumping of hoops by cancelling my subscription. Instead, I'm going to see if I can get my televisual requirements purely from FTA TV and from the Internet using such devices as come to hand (such as PVRs, extenders, gaming consoles, etc).

And I'm going to blog about it.

The experiment (I call it that to give it a more scientific air than it possibly deserves) will be strictly confined to full-episode content watched on my TV from a device that sits comfortably and quietly in the TV cabinet and can be used with my universal remote.

Here goes nothing...