evan – good question, i have no idea. i don’t want to spend what it costs for a slingbox and the app just to find out it doesn’t work. i’ve done that too many times to count only to be disappointed yet again.

kosmo – i’m profoundly deaf, meaning i hear almost nothing short of a bomb going off next to my head. …well, at least i assume i’d hear that, for the split second before i’m dead. ;-)

it’s maddening trying to find something that is captioned. hulu, on their website, has captions on some shows, which is great, i love that – but if i try to use the ipad instead of the desktop computer or laptop, it jams the signal and forces users to sign up for their hulu PLUS service. which would be okay, i would not mind paying for that – BUT for the fact hulu decided to eliminate captions from the PLUS. sigh.

netflix does not offer captions through their ipad app, either.

the technology IS THERE, but companies just refuse to use it. look at the videos at TEDtalks. ALL of them are captioned. i love it, i learn lots from those talks. but sometimes i just want to watch plain old tv like everyone else.