That's probably because of how easy things are to get here in the US. My parents are in their late 60s and I was talking to my dad the other day when he told me about how they watch old movies on the ancient TV they have at home in India: RaspBMC.
I found this astonishing since I set this up perhaps a decade ago on a RaspberryPI with a large external USB drive. I recall setting up something with Samba so that their Windows computer in the house could either make the stuff available or transfer it to the USB drive. Then I used one of those USB flirc setups so that they could use a remote to navigate the interface.
And then I imaged a few SD cards and left them there for them to use.
At some point, my parents figured out how to get torrented content down and how to use the OpenSubtitles.org integration to get subtitles. And that worked for a bit, but something must have changed because they tell me now that they have to download the subtitles on the computer and change the name to match or something.
I suppose you need sufficient motivation. My parents seem to enjoy movies from a century ago which are hard to find in India but easy to find on the Internet. If they could just jump on Amazon Prime and fetch them perhaps they'd have jumped through fewer hoops.
The thing that most amazes me is that this gambit with imaging SD cards worked! South India had a period in there where power would cut out frequently. This dodged that particular problem!
I found this astonishing since I set this up perhaps a decade ago on a RaspberryPI with a large external USB drive. I recall setting up something with Samba so that their Windows computer in the house could either make the stuff available or transfer it to the USB drive. Then I used one of those USB flirc setups so that they could use a remote to navigate the interface.
And then I imaged a few SD cards and left them there for them to use.
At some point, my parents figured out how to get torrented content down and how to use the OpenSubtitles.org integration to get subtitles. And that worked for a bit, but something must have changed because they tell me now that they have to download the subtitles on the computer and change the name to match or something.
I suppose you need sufficient motivation. My parents seem to enjoy movies from a century ago which are hard to find in India but easy to find on the Internet. If they could just jump on Amazon Prime and fetch them perhaps they'd have jumped through fewer hoops.
The thing that most amazes me is that this gambit with imaging SD cards worked! South India had a period in there where power would cut out frequently. This dodged that particular problem!