It’s hardly news to regular readers that I watch a lot of opera recordings on DVD and Blu-ray.  Until recently though I rarely watched streaming video off the internet as I’m not very keen about sitting in front of a computer for hours.  I do enough of that at work!  However, it was time to replace our aging TV with something more modern so I used it as an excuse to do some other upgrades (as well as decommissioning the VHS and cassette tape players which haven’t been used for at least 5 years).  Basically i hooked up Apple TV to the new TV and the home theatre sound system allowing me to stream anything from the lemur’s Macbook Air and be able to watch it on a large screen TV with 6.1 channel surround sound.  A lot of the stuff out there is a bit naff qualitywise but there are some gems.  Courtesy of another opera blogger who doesn’t want his bootleg publicising activities publicised I was able to view an extremely high quality feed of the Bregenz 2013 Die Zauberflõte which looked and sounded fantastic.  I’m now really looking forward to live streams from Glyndebourne and the Bayerische Staatsoper.