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Adult Swim To Offer Streaming Video Option

Posted by Zonk on from the it-seems-today-that-all-you-see-is-violence-in-movies-and-sex-on-tv dept.

Julio Capote wrote to mention a press release making the rounds stating that Adult Swim will be allowing viewers to watch shows via streaming video. From the article: "Starting Sept. 16, AdultSwim.com will offer full-length episodes of these and other programs in an initiative Cartoon Network is calling Friday Night Fix. Each week between 11 p.m.-6 a.m. ET, a selection of current and fan-requested shows will be available for free viewing. There also will be previews of episodes scheduled to debut the next Sunday" The official Williams Street announcement is also available.

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  1. Cool! by FlyByPC · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cartoons are a lot more interesting (and more intellectually stimulating) than most of what's on TV these days.

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  2. This is perfect for... by Orinthe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is perfect for me and my roommate--we are college students with our own apartment, and can't afford to get even basic cable service ($52.95/mo?!). We have netflix instead, which is fine for me since I don't watch TV anyway, but she misses her Adult Swim. Internet is a necessity, though, so we have 5Mbps downstream cable internet (more than enough for streaming video). Now we can get the one thing we were missing out on--free and legal!

    Thank you, Cartoon Network!

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  3. Re:Streaming video? by ultranova · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, it is done in flash, then exported to video. My friend "animates" Harvey Birdman. Flash is the future of low budget 2d animation for sure. A couple o fshows on Nickolodeon are done in flash as well.

    I've tried to do animation using SVG and Inkscape, but that has turned out to be a truly horrendous task. It's a pity, really - the format itself seems well-suited for animation, apart from some oddities (like storing path control points in a string rather than XML tags of their own). Having an infinite resolution in both time and space (the animation is time-key-based, so you can interpolate as many frames as wanted between keypoints, and of course vector graphics can be scaled freely) is a very nice feature...

    Any change that we'll be seeing open-source SVG animation tools ?

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