I'm so psyched, after decades of having a DVD in a red envelope sitting on my AppleTV unit, I can finally switch my subscription to a streaming-only plan and even save a few bucks! Nice, but how do I do that from the Netflix app on my television?
If you follow my Twitter stream (I'm @DaveTaylor on Twitter) you already know that I'm a bit of a fanatic about the FIFA World Cup and this year it's the first time I can actually bring the World Cup with me thanks to my Apple iPhone. It's every four years and the iPhone was introduced in 2007, so I think I had a Motorola RAZR during the last Cup (e.g., a phone that was dead useless in terms of helping me enjoy the matches).
The World Cup is the single most popular sporting event in the world, but oddly is unpopular here in the United States. That's the subject of a different article, however. Suffice to say, I find it odd that only one or two of my friends even watch matches, let alone pay attention to the entire Cup.
Fortunately, there's lots of commercial interest in the World Cup with useful apps from both ESPN [iTunes link] and Fox Soccer Channel [iTunes link]. What I really wanted was to watch the matches live on my iPhone -- now my iPhone 4 -- and that's where MobiTV comes in...
A friend of mine has Boxee running on her computer via a Mac Mini and I was pretty darn impressed. Tons of content, a slick interface, very fun. Problem is, when I got Boxee going on my computer, I found it had a lot less content. Digging around a bit reveals that the extra channels are added by accessing "Boxee content repositories" but I have no clue how to do that. Do you use Boxee? Can you help?
