The New York Times reports that fewer people are watching the new Fall TV series, possibly due to all the video available online, including full TV episodes (both at station sites and through illegal torrent sites). This is likely compounded by the fact that a few of the better ones have not come out yet, and by the ongoing Writer’s strike.

To this list of threats, you can add timeshifting services such as Orb, who offer a combined desktop and web suite of applications that let you watch your local broadcasting pretty much from any Internet connection. It’s like a TiVo for the web. Just hookup a TV capture card to your computer, send in your cable TV feed. Run Orb desktop software in the background. Now, go anywhere in the world, get to a computer connected to the Iternet, and use Orb’s browser software to watch whatever is on TV back home (or whatever you’ve previously recorded - video or audio).