Internet Televison Content Coming of Age

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Internet Televison Content Coming of Age

Posted by michael on Thursday October 28, 2004 @05:09AM from the moving-pictures dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "The Washington Post has an article out this morning on the assortment of internet based TV choices that are popping up providing additional and competing content to the major studios. Most of these providers are operating more as content collectors or aggregators than actual content producers."

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Hooray!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-28 05:11 · Score: 2, Funny

I'll be able to watch all my favorite shows in 320x240
1. Re:Hooray!! by greechneb · 2004-10-28 05:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Yeah, and with my dialup connection at home, I'll be able to watch the entire season of a show about the same time the DVD release comes out!
Its been done. by Pxtl · 2004-10-28 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Red vs. blue and Homestar are all the TV the internet needs.
Finally by deathcloset · 2004-10-28 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

A good use for my WebTv ;)
Re:Don't forget Bittorrent! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-28 05:37 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, if stealing from TV producers is something you want to do. Get a clue, scumbag. People who don't pay for their content are theives. (That also goes for all you pirates who think you can escape guilt by watching DVDs "lended" to you by a friend, or think it's OK to just "check out" a magazine from one of those illegal book swapping locations known as "libraries") Thieves everywhere.
I know there are some more night owls in here by xThinkx · 2004-10-28 05:38 · Score: 2, Funny

I personally welcome the idea of "TV Over IP" type providers. I'd love it if I could watch the shows I want WHEN I want, streamed or downloadable.

I'd like to think the geek crowd is also tired of having nothing but info-mercials to watch while finding the latest logic error in $openSourceProject.

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You forgot... by Jogar+the+Barbarian · 2004-10-28 05:41 · Score: 1, Funny

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Videos for music by Animats · 2004-10-28 06:06 · Score: 2, Funny

How about something that recognizes what you're listening to, finds the matching music video, and displays it?
It could be called "Music TV".
Internet TV Comes of Age When by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-28 07:55 · Score: 1, Funny

I can watch NFL Sunday without
* silly beer commercials
* GM trying to tell me it's truck will get me laid more often than Ford's
* vodka being touted as one of the basic food groups
* all men being depicted as morons who do stupid things
* all women being portrayed as witty, sensual, and solely interested in the man who ( smokes this, drinks that, drives this, plays that, eats here, or takes this pill)
* The confusion that sets in when a feminine pad commercial is somehow mistakenly inserted