IPTV scores in World Cup

Our TV at home is showing its age. It looks like it's self-imposed a 3-hour-per-day quota. After 3 hours, it will switch off itself and refuse to boot up until the next day. In this World Cup period, which is conceivably the most inconvenient time for this to happen, this means we can only watch 1.5 matches per-day max.

On the night of S. KOR vs TOG, FRA vs SWI and BRA vs CRO, we brought home a small old TV stored away at the office. We checked before we carried it home to make sure it still worked. We got home, plugged in the cable and the cord, and it was on! Great! ... except that the channel up / down buttons were not working. It would only show the Channel 1 while all the World Cup actions were happening on the Channel 5. We couldn't find the remote, which has probably been lost years ago, so here's this small old TV, sitting in the middle of the dining room, with no value to our cause whatsover.

We ended up watching the second and third matches on the internet, live and for free. Given it's the internet, the quality was actually not as bad as I expected. The only caveat was that the mandarin-speaking female commentator seemed less than enthusiastic. Starting from the next World Cup, or perhaps the one afterwards, the quality of free live internet broadcasts may have risen to such a degree that we shall no longer be stuck with Cable.

Welcome to the world of IPTV.

Note: World Cup has stolen my blogging time plus reading time plus half of my sleeping time. This blog will be updated less frequently until this party ends.