Having returned home from living in China for two years, it’s a welcome thing to be able to be with my family to just sit down and watch some TV.
Along with some other recent purchases, I now have a cable that lets me plug my ipod/iphone into the TV. This is significant in two ways. It makes it pretty convenient to watch stuff with my family that had previously been restricted to a computer screen. Secondly it provides me with a second viewing platform and reason for all the MP4 versions I made of DVDs that I’d purchased.
This indeed maybe self-fullfilling i.e. to have a reason to convert DVDs to MP4s and copy them to my iPod to then watch on the TV which I could have done with the original DVD and buying a cable to let me do that and justify the process doesn’t really work.
The arguments against that is that I’m now able to plug my ipod into any TV with a AV component/scart input -> which is basically any TV within the last 15 years, in a way that is more portable than a DVD and provides protection from scratching that carrying a DVD might entail.
It also allows me to continue watching a series or film on the move/in a portable way, that a DVD does not. For example my sister and I were watching Firefly in the car to Scotland, on the train to Liverpool and at home on the TV. Portable DVD players are alot more conspicuous than a lowly iPod/iPhone, and I can have more content on my portable device than on a singular or even many DVDs.
This has all been by the by, as the reason I sat down to write this post was to say I love how good Firefly is, and I am very happy that my sister is enjoying watching it with me.
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