Free Downloadable Tech Shows

Omninox writes "Tech Shows is a list of some of the best free downloadable tech shows currently available on the Internet. One year ago there were almost no free downloadable shows available." Includes shows like Diggnation, Go Open, Nerd TV, and Channel 9.

Comments

Pure Pwnage in the List

[Namronorman]

I strongly suggest watching Pure Pwnage if you're into games. It is absolutely hilarious!

Re:Pure Pwnage in the List

[rinkjustice]

Here's the URL

Re:Pure Pwnage in the List

[EvilCabbage]

Pwnage? Noobs? I don't think I'll waste the bandwidth.

If I wanted to listen to aimless, painful l337sp34k, I'd just start playing Counterstrike again.

Re:Pure Pwnage in the List

[Negatyfus]

It's satire. Give it a try, you bitter, bitter man.

Re:Pure Pwnage in the List

[Norgus]

Agreed, while not a tech show it might appealto some of the gaming slashdot crowd. Its a brilliant sattire.

Re:Pure Pwnage in the List

[loraksus]

I'd just start playing Counterstrike again.

There are other games? What?

Good to see stuff like this

[FlyByPC]

I hope we see more interesting online content like this. I think eventually on-demand content will be the way to go, once bandwidth becomes even cheaper. Maybe niche shows like these will finally eliminate the "500-channels-and-nothing-good-on" problem.

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, instead it'll be the "8,168,684,336 web pages and nothing good on" problem

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[ultranova]

Yeah, instead it'll be the "8,168,684,336 web pages and nothing good on" problem

Enter the new P2P-based content rating systems, complete with web of trust to prevent astroturfing/trolling and anonymity to prevent "five stars or DDOS" type scenarios.

You could propably use Freenet for something like this, assuming that the next generation will finally work well...

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know. I find sites like torrentbytes.net or filelist.org quite satisfying. Download a movie for free in 20mins. Quality is often exceptional. Plus it's anony"!$"NO CARRIER

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[zevans]

Enter the new P2P-based content rating systems, complete with web of trust to prevent astroturfing/trolling and anonymity to prevent "five stars or DDOS" type scenarios.

Yeah, great, so I get to watch stuff that everyone -else- thinks is good...!

Just like ITV in the UK. Oh goody.

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[FlyByPC]

That might have been funny, except any movie that can be crammed down a dialup line in 20min would be no more than 6meg, and hardly worth watching...

Five Geek Points for remembering "NO CARRIER" from the text-BBS days -- but negative ten for forgetting the bandwidth calculation. 8-)

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[Anonymous Coward]

No no no, you got it all wrong. Of course my 345345643 Mbps connection is so maxed out with torrent downloads that I have to use a dialup fail-safe to read slashdot. Duh!

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[Daytona955i]

yeah, except if it was designed well, it would take your ratings and compare it to others who like the same stuff you do. Thus if you rate "Yet another crappy reality TV show" as say 1 star, it would hopefully not recommend any other reality tv shows.

Of course it would be a little more complicated than just going off one or two ratings but it could work.

Re:Good to see stuff like this

[oc255]

It's possible to program this well. Look at Amazon's "if you like this ... check out this" or "customers who bought this, also bought this". If you shop on Amazon, you know that the latter is incredibly accurate even if your taste of music is "outsider" or "underground". Of course, stuff on Amazon isn't underground but that's not my point.

You could build a system that does this well and could introduce you to media that is very much what you want to watch. It is this interactivity, linking/memes, neural learning/data gathering that standard TV is very severely lacking.

Of course the flipside is if the system is learning who I am and suggesting stuff to match me then I'm always watching stuff that has been labeled or rated as "stuff I'd like". It's a cycle. I'm in a box. Where's my exposure to classic movies or other horizon-expanding stuff that I don't regularly get flagged for? How will I grow as a person if I get exposed to "me". It's a feedback loop!

Another trade off. Damn it! Everything is a double-edged sword. I'm going to go sit in a field and play with dandelions.

The Scene

[moonka]

I started watching the scene when it was featured on slashdot, and it's mildly entertaining. One question about this list, what about Red Vs. Blue? I think most people would consider it one of the best downloadable shows.

Re:The Scene

[moonka]

Right. Tech shows. Ignore me. :)

Re:The Scene

[Bios_Hakr]

How the fuck is The Scene a tech show? Other than the fact that they chat on IRC and occaionally use iTunes, it's a low-tech drama.

Just because tech is IN a show does not make it ABOUT tech. RvB is just as high-tech as The Scene. And don't even fucking mention Pure Pwnage..

Re:The Scene

[bleckywelcky]

Thing about RvB is that you either love it or you hate it. Me, I absolutely hate that show. Nothing but a bunch of talking heads that sound like 13 year olds from counter strike. And everything they say is absolutely stupid. I know there are people out there that love it. But there are also a LOT of people that think it is the dumbest thing ever. Me, I've got better things to do than listen to a couple of morons' back and forth banter.

HDTV and beyond

[zymano]

Video over the Net.
  If more websites could broadcast and produce HDTV quality and higher res photos then this would be the impetus to move to broadband for everyone. It would also lower costs with more competitition(wimax).

I need a reason to switch but it's not there yet for me. I don't play alot of games or download operatings systems. HDTV quality video productions,Sports,Movies and News might push people over from evil pricey cable tv.

Re:HDTV and beyond

[cheezus_es_lard]

Well, what needs to happen is that similar to PodCasts, we need to have RSS feeds of these shows, and then build RSS Aggregation into MythTV and similar apps. This would enable the download of any RSS feeds desired, or the browsing of feeds in real time, and so on.

Re:HDTV and beyond

[pearljam145]

Do you work for Microsoft? You seem to share their opinion, RSS in everything ;-).

Re:HDTV and beyond

[drsquare]

Having TV programmes on the Internet won't make broadband any cheaper or more widely available. That's assuming that broadband is fast enough to stream quality TV. I don't really know much about that sort of thing, but I don't think 512kb/s is enough for HDTV, or even normal TV.

Anyway, who wants to watch TV on the computer? I prefer to watch it on the TV in the living room, not in a cramped study upstairs somewhere.

Imagine the scene: World Cup final, England vs Brazil, penalty shootout. Beckham steps up, to take the penalty which will bring home the trophy for the first time in 40 years. Then the Internet quota runs out. Or the connection breaks. Or increased demand means crawling speeds for everyone. Or the computer crashes.

Computers are fickle, expensive and unreliable, the Internet even more so. TV is reliable, on-demand and doesn't rely on fancy connections, it just works. Most people don't want to fuck about with a computer just to watch TV, it's bad enough using them for e-mail and word processing.

I suppose next you'll be telling people to install MythTV...

Re:HDTV and beyond

[zymano]

Movies on computers suck. Your right.

It will all change when it gains momentum.

High speed cables , like firewire connected to a server in the house. It will all be connected and wireless too.

Re:HDTV and beyond

[utnow]

TV is reliable, but is far from 'on-demand' unless all you mean is that it turns on when you hit the power button.

The idea that he's throwing out there is that you could have these broadcasts when you chose to have them, not just streaming the same content to everyone simultaneously (ala winamp tv).

Most new video cards have outputs for your television is you're intent on seeing it on a low resolution tv screen and myth TV isn't that bad of an option for this sort of technology.

The direction I see it _actually_ going is that in a few years your Tivo or DirectTV or digital cable box will have a new menu allowing you to grab the show/episode that you're looking for. The show will be paused every 10-15 minutes for 5-10 minutes of commercials (actually more often and shorter would be more likely as it's harder to avoid them).

I really can't picture this idea gaining steam on a computer for all the reasons that you stated, but in a proprietary box (basically a computer anyway) I can see this being extremely popular.

(the sports pass ... sit down and watch any game in history. woot)

Re:HDTV and beyond

[drsquare]

Why would there be constant adverts? There aren't now.

I don't have a video card with TV output, at least I think I don't, I'm not a sad geek so I don't know about things like that. And I still don't like the idea of dragging a big cable half way round the house, or setting up a Linux box to fuck about with mythtv.

Face it, computers are fucking useless, I wouldn't let one near a TV in a million years. I'd blame Bill Gates but I use Linux and it's still god-awful.

Imagine TV freezing up because someone's at the computer downloading something. Multi-purpose devices like computers are rarely good at dedicated tasks. The term 'jack of all trades master of none' come to mind.

Maybe in fifty years when computers and the Internet have matured to a point where they actually work properly and easily, they might be considered.

Re:HDTV and beyond

[Anonymous Coward]

so you are saying High speed wireless cables?

I can picture it now, you can buy a monster cables set of these guys for $49.95 and the box is empty, but the air is quality!

Re:HDTV and beyond

[loraksus]

There were RSS feeds for a couple of the good TV episode bittorrent sites a while back. Not quite the same thing, but it worked.

Re:HDTV and beyond

[utnow]

did you read my comment or just reply to it with mindless blather?

My comment: tv's have lower resolutions and are lower quality than monitors. most computer's have tv outputs (whether you realize it or not) so if you really want to see it on tv you CAN.

But I also commented that computers WEREN'T the future of this tech, instead you would see it on Tivo/Direct TV style boxes. Anotherwords, it's still digital and it's still on a 'computer' but it's a dedicated computer.

Re:HDTV and beyond

[drsquare]

I watched TV on the computer once. It was jerky and blocky. Not a pleasant experience.

AWESOME!

[Seumas]

These videos prove that the read/write web 2.0 is full on hardcore!

Anyway, you had me at "Diggnation". I've got a full-throttle tech-hard-on for Kevin Rose. Leaving TechTV/G4 has been the best thing he ever did.

However, I'd also like to see more alternative content in this fashion on the web, ala Sean Kennedy's "TFM" shows. They were really unique and creative and, in a way, united a certain group of people in a conscientious way.

Re:AWESOME!

[DickBreath]

Anyway, you had me at "Diggnation". I've got a full-throttle tech-hard-on for Kevin Rose.

Speaking of full-throttle tech-hard-ons for Kevin Rose, be sure to see Systm.org. Episode 1 and 2 are better than episode 3. There is a new SubSystm episode available: "Cracking open the iPod Nano".

Mirror

[personman21]

http://www.filefarmer.com.nyud.net:8090/techshows/

Zonk!

[246o1]

Of the 9 Zonk-posted articles that appeared at the top when I changed my settings, this is the least sensational. Of course, it's also the hardest to argue about, which is a little dispiriting.

Surprise, surprise

[i_should_be_working]

Rocketboom is currently one of the most popular videoblogs on the internet with more daily subscribers for original syndicated multimedia content than nearly any other site, including podcasts.

See if you can guess which show this excerpt is from by just looking at the pictures in the article.




Give up? It's the one with the blonde showing cleavage.

Re:Surprise, surprise

[Seumas]

Yeah, but boobs don't matter if the rest is fugly.

Plus, I looked at the info under the current episode and it all sounds related to pollution and cars and crap. Who cares. *shrug*

Anyway, videoblogging is a necessary evolution. Eventually only attractive people will create content on the web. Everyone else will just consume it.

Re:Surprise, surprise

[meta-monkey]

Eventually only attractive people will create content on the web. Everyone else will just consume it.

And how!

Re:Surprise, surprise

[extrasolar]

Alright, fine, I'll read the article.

Re:Surprise, surprise

[rtb61]

With computer animation, attractive people cost nothing, arn't prima donas and unless your running windows they never go on strike. So other than for immediate personal use will actual attractive people become redundant.

Re:Surprise, surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, Rocketboom's Amanda Congdon is hot. But I continue to watch her vlog because she's smart and funny. I do admit though, if it wasn't for the cleavage as the initial hook, I wouldn't have started watching in the first place.

Re:Surprise, surprise

[Dark Coder]

Um, I noticed this link (of which we share in common).

http://slashdot.org/~RollcallOfArseholes/foes

I've finished reading up most of the slashdotters' journal and cannot find a common thread topic wise...

I can't think of any other most common denominators over here. By any chance, do you use TOR?

Re:Surprise, surprise

[StandAloneMatt]

I think she looks pretty good.

http://www.amandacongdon.com/photo/, oh and my favorite http://www.amandacongdon.com/photo/swimsuit.jpg

Re:Surprise, surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Depends what you're comparing her to. Your average flashing chunkster online or a night out with real chicks at just about any club on a Friday night?

And I watch tech stuff for tech stuff. If your main selling point is that you have tits, you can go fuck yourself and find something more appropriate like E! style "news" blogging.

Still, wholly average. But I wouldn't expect any different response from the Slashdot crowd. The standards around here are pretty low.

Re:Surprise, surprise

[StandAloneMatt]

No, I was saying the term "fugly" was totally unfair and uncalled for - I don't think she applies.

I wasn't making comment on the content of the show - in fact I haven't watched much of it - but I wouldn't assume that just becuase she has "tits" that she has nothing intellegent to offer.

People can have whatever "standards" they want - it isn't your job to judge them. I am glad not everyone has the same concept of beauty - the world would be even more violent if we were all after the same girl.

You can feel proud of yourself and your dominance now that you have told everyone what they should think - all from an anonymous coward posting no less.

there are even more than these

[droops]

if anyone wants to see other good shows (and that have no adds all over the sites)

http://ranttv.com/ is a 24/7 station with great shows

http://www.binrev.com/hacktv/ BinRev has HackTV (2 episodes)

http://infonomicon.org/video.php Infonomicon TV (6 episodes)

sorry about your server stinky, i bet mine goes down before yours =o)

Are any worth it?

[dangitman]

I'm just a bit skeptical about "videoblogs." Most audio blogs (podcasts) on technology and science topics turned out to be a waste of time. The audio format just tends to add filler. I can get the same information more thoroughly and efficiently via text. Does the video (or audio) experience actually add anything?

I have seen and heard good radio and TV shows about science and technology - but they tend to come from my local (non-commercial) FM and TV stations, not web broadcasting. I am reluctant to bother spending much time mucking about with different video formats to get substandard video streams, when I can just switch on the TV or radio.

Re:Are any worth it?

[drsquare]

Yeah, apparently that Cringley thing was just him sitting there talking. It could have been an mp3. I'm glad I didn't download it on my 56k!

Re:Are any worth it?

[krymsin01]

Yeah, video can add one thing that gives it an advantage over pure text. Boobs.

Re:Are any worth it?

[Bimo_Dude]

Or a disadvantage: Man-Boobs.

How about TWIT?

[Hits_B]

http://www.thisweekintech.com/

Re:How about TWIT?

[penguinix]

I belive TWIT didn't make the list because all the shows on the list are video casts. TWIT is only in podcast form at the moment. I do belive that TWIT will be turned into a video cast in the future as it has appeared on the Revision 3 site (they do internet T.V.). Leo has hinted on taping the future shows as well.

Darren from Hak.5 IPTV says Hello

[aardwolf204]

As an avid slashdotter and now IPTV producer I would like to say hello to the fellow slashdotters. I'm one of the crew producing the monthly IPTV show Hak.5, a show about tech, homebrew hacks, mods, code, and all sorts of good stuff.

Before our server melts to the ground I'll point out some links for episodes 1 and 2: Torrent Links:
Episode 1 Xvid Torrent
Episode 1 Quicktime Torrent
Episode 2 h.264 AVI
Episode 2 Xvid
Episode 2 medium quality Quicktime

Direct Download Links:
Episode 1 Quicktime
Episode 1 Xvid
Episode 2 h.264 AVI
Episode 2 Xvid

A streaming version of Episode 2 can be found at YouTube here (Flash Required).

We just finished filming a mod segment for episode 3, to be released October 5th, tonight and I'm glad I checked slashdot before going to bed.

I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the show or IPTV in general here. Also, we're in the process of moving to a dedicated server with terabytes of bandwidth this week that will allow us to offer direct downloads of the show as well as getting listed on iTunes. Check hak5.org for updates or sign up for the newsletter

Oh yes, and in Soviet Russia, Hak.5 watches you!

--Darren
Hak5.org

Re:Darren from Hak.5 IPTV says Hello

[Anonymous Coward]

How does one watch h.264 in linux?

Re:Darren from Hak.5 IPTV says Hello

[Anonymous Coward]

Why put H.264 in AVI? Surely putting H.264 video into an MPEG-4 file would be a much better option.

Re:Darren from Hak.5 IPTV says Hello

[DaemonDazz]

Lovely, no seeds for the torrents and 404s on the direct download links. How exactly are we supposed to get these? ;)

Consolevania?

[SpodBoy]

What about consolevania, a great games review show featuring xbox live champion Legend?

http://www.consolevania.com/

http://www.thefraudcast.com/now.htm

How long before we get massive commercials in them

[susasusesume]

I can't help but wonder how long it will take before the interesting casts get foobared by being pumped full of ads.

"agenda"

[magicchex]

One of the shows is described like this:

"...Agenda includes releasing each new clip at 8am est, Monday through Friday...

Amazing concept! I hope they accomplish their agenda. I'll have to watch to see how it develops.

expect legislation to kill this

[bani]

if you want to know what terrifies the MPAA/RIAA more than anything else, it's ipradio and iptv.

iptv/ipradio threaten the distribution models that corporations have traditionally controlled from top to bottom.

expect them to start ramming legislation down everyones throats to kill this before it gets off the ground. a few cries of 9/11 and "think of the children" (and under the table dollar bills) should do it.

Re:expect legislation to kill this

[aardwolf204]

I think podcasting is already off the ground, look at iTunes 4.9 and 5.0. Vidcasting (or IPTV) is getting off the ground as well. There is nothing legislation can do to stop it. Unless of course we loose the first amendment.

Re:expect legislation to kill this

[bani]

first amendment? look at the DMCA for an example, and look at how the DMCA has been abused to curtail free speech.

doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell that podcasting and iptv are next.

don't need to lose the first amendment. just need bad laws.

Re:expect legislation to kill this

[akb]

I think there's less to fear from legislation than ISPs that also have an interest in content distribution. Verizon is rolling out fiber to the home so that they can sell TV, its cost tens of $billions. Its seems much more likely that they would turn to filtering out competitors to protect that investment.

Re:expect legislation to kill this

[Xarius]

MPAA/RIAA

They can legistlate people producing/distributing this in American, maybe. But they can't stop the rest of the world making it, and the Americans downloading it.

Re:expect legislation to kill this

[Anonymous Coward]

DRMed hardware and software required to connect to the internet. It does not even need legislation, just forcing to ISPs to bow to *AA' will.

Re:expect legislation to kill this

[advocate_one]

It can be effectively killed by requiring producers to be licensed and to conform to a content rating system... it's amazing how beaurocracy can be used to tie people up in regulations and other cr4p so that people give up rather than submit to the byzantine maze of getting approval.

MythTV was interesting to watch...

[antdude]

I was thinking of making one, but from what I heard it was complex. After downloading and watching the episode, it made more sense. Much better than reading and looking at screen shots. :)

I hope to see more of these types of shows. It doesn't have to be on computers and technologies either.

Slashdot should have their own show

[cciRRus]

Seriously, all that geeky and funny stuff on Slashdot would certainly make it a great show. :)

Re:Slashdot should have their own show

[Gulthek]

Too late, This Week in Tech is seriously better than anything /. could put out.

Re:Slashdot should have their own show

[holden caufield]

I find that hard to believe.

I'll admit to the following things:

1.) I've never listened to an episode of "Geeks in Space" although the show did exist when I began lurking on /. - long before I registered or posted.

2.) I've never been indoctrinated to the "Cult of Leo" that seems to arise around him - never saw a TechTV show, or listened to any of his stuff before discovering TWiT about a month ago.

My goodness, that show is *horrible*. It is too long, not that informative, and contains way too much ego mastubation to continue listening to it. (I gave it a shot - three episodes...and then adios). It's a shame, because Leo sounds like he could have some potential as a tech broadcaster, but *over an hour* to do nothing but ramble with an occasional buzzword here and there? No thanks.

Even with the dupes, I'm sure Taco and the rest of the gang were superior to that effort.

Re:Slashdot should have their own show

[Gulthek]

Whoa...you want to complain about buzzwork repetition and ego masturbation? You seriously need to listen to an episode of Geeks in Space. :-)

I've never even heard of Leo L-something until I found TWiT a few weeks ago. I find the shows amusing and reasonably informative. Security Now! is even better but more focused.

Teh Scene

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to the Scene (the second last entry on the page) is an anti-piracy initiative which is apparently sponsored by the RIAA to make the life of "sceners" (those who 'steal' and 'copy' software then distribute it online) look boring, and their lives a failure in general.

A much better alternative is "Welcome to teh scene" available at http://www.welcometotehscene.com/
It's a parody version of the original, and is very amusing - in particular if you've seen the originals.

Click Online?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am surprised Click Online was not mentioned. It has been available online for a number of years (thanks BBC World).

http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonli ne.asp?pageid=666&home=1

Maybe if you're show is good enough...

[Anonymous Coward]

Comcast might buy it from you.

Re:Maybe if you're show is good enough...

[aardwolf204]

And loose all creative control? No thanks.

--Darren
Hak5.tv

Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t

[LadyGuardian]

bias alert: I'm Jenn Cutter from Open Alpha

Vid/podcasts will quickly become shunned if they sell out to corporate interests. No one wants to download something that's seemingly independent, only to find out that it's a 30-minute, 500MB commercial for HP/Canon/Sony/whatever. I started OA to geek out about games and tech and have fun. Many cool things have happened since, including a few upcoming guest segments on Call For Help, but that's just bonus. Those that start these kinds of projects for financial gain will find very little reward at this point in time and will (hopefully) jump to other get-rich-quick schemes while those of us that care about the content we're producing will merrily continue on.

ps: episode 3 really IS coming :)

Geeks In Space

[PhotonSphere]

They did.
 
It was called Geeks in Space.

They stopped putting them out there shortly after some of the gang moved. I'll have to go back through and listen to the archives - it will be interesting to revisit what was exciting and new around that time...

My favorite tech radio shows is Technology Bytes on 90.1 KPFT in Houston, Texas.

Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t

[strider44]

Mildly off topic, but complements for your show. It's quite nice to see a cute girl that loves technology, thankfully becoming more and more frequent.

(And no to all else that wasn't a sniggering pickup line rather a note on how there seems to be a stupid social construct that it is more important for girls to be good looking rather than intelligent, and the myth that a girl can't be both. I can't stand girls who bow to this and become a silly whimsical giggly idiot, and no I don't mean [just] sexual partners. Aw shit I'm never going to win with this.)

Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t

[aardwolf204]

Jenn is right. There is no money in vidcasting/iptv. To date Hak.5 has made about negative $3,000. I'm sure Jenn can attest to the same. We're doing this because it's something we love to do. As I mentioned in our first post on Hak5.org: instead of building a beowulf cluster for fun, we're building a beowulf cluster for fun, filming it, and sharing the fun with all. I can almost guarantee that the handful of IPTV shows out right now would agree to this statement, and I seriously doubt any would sell out to commercial interests.

Very happy to hear episode 3 is coming. Episode 3 of Hak.5 will be out on the 5th of October.

Click Online doesn't really qualify...

[Dh2000]

since about half the time they are explaining _what_ RAM and Processors are, or showing off different websites... and never getting deep into the subject of technology.

Glossing over the details is not very geeky, so, it's more of an educational/entertainment show for the hordes of 'ordinary' people.

in my (rather picky) opinion, a tech show should assume the watcher has a basic knowledge of modern computers, or it wastes too much valuable time educatin' the peasents wot dat Tel-E-Vision thang is.

Re:Click Online doesn't really qualify...

[makomk]

On the plus side, I did find out about Python Challenge from Click Online.

Channel 9? Funktio moronico?

[Anonymous Coward]

Tottera mia ken tessera...

CHANNEL 9!

Republica presente...
Tech Show!

Re:Channel 9? Funktio moronico?

[mikeburke]

ethethethethethethethethethe...donald sinden. scorchio!

Re:Channel 9? Funktio moronico?

[Anonymous Coward]

For the non-brits, Channel 9 was a sketch on the The Fast Show.

Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t

[Anonymous Coward]

what the hell? i just searched google images for jenn cutter and didn't see any boobs at all!

BBC Tech Shows

[mikiN]

Be sure to check out BBC News' Technology page.

Besides tech related articles, it features: 'Go Digital' (podcast, video), 'Click Online' (video) and 'R5Live: Talking Tech' (video).

Re:BBC Tech Shows

[mikiN]

Correction: 'R5Live: Talking Tech' (audio).

Subtitles (Closed Captions)

[JGJones]

In the UK, BBC et al have a quota of % of shows that they provide subtitling for that they meet with the BBC aiming to provide 100% coverage on all channels. But currently all BBC video's from their website does not include any subtitles and nor does any other Internet TV's. There is a huge number of hearing impaired PC users that could watch those steaming video's but don't due to no subtitles/captions. It'll be nice if some of the more popular one start thinking about providing subtitles (and this have the additional bonus of reaching a larger audience - forgien language subtitles)

Can't wait until this one...

[snotclot]

Bill Nyyyyeee the Science Guuuuyyy...!!!111!!1 Bill, bill, bill, bill, bi-bi-bill bill nye the science guy T-minus 7 seconds.. Ok thats about as much as I can remember from my childhood

Re:Can't wait until this one...

[HatofPig]

Inertia is a property of matter!

Re:Can't wait until this one...

[ahaning]

Bill Nye is/was supposed to be coming back and there was a thread about it on the SA forums (sorry I don't know where the thread is anymore). Users asked and mods approved torrenting of the episodes when they came out.

Nothing was ever shared AFAIK :-(.

The "original" episodes were better, anyway.

Also, I'm 24 and I think I was too old for Bill Nye when it was on TV. Is the Slashdot crowd that young these days? I think I was in highschool. While I forget most of 3-2-1 Contact, it's more a part of my childhood than Bill.

Re:Can't wait until this one...

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed. I remember watching Beekman's World, but Bill Nye was after my time.

Re:Can't wait until this one...

[snotclot]

Yeah we're pretty young. I'm in college now and most of my EECS classmates read Slashdot.

Definitely listen/watch the WoW music video...

[antdude]

A co-worker, at work, found this a few weeks ago... Putfile's streaming copy (downloadable if you view it source code) from the episode (boring to me). Check out the lyrics.

Re:Definitely listen/watch the WoW music video...

[personman21]

http://x500.putfile.com/videos/a3-19100101925.wmv WTF?

Re:Definitely listen/watch the WoW music video...

[antdude]

personman21: It takes me back to the home page. :( It doesn't like hot linking.

Re:Definitely listen/watch the WoW music video...

[personman21]

http://x500.putfile.com.nyud.net:8090/videos/a3-19 100101925.wmv What about this one?

Re:Definitely listen/watch the WoW music video...

[antdude]

I will have to try it at home since my employer's blocked non-common ports. :(

Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t

[Anonymous Coward]

Dig that hole. Put your back into it...come on. Deeper >)

Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t

[Anonymous Coward]

You sad little man with absolutely no resourcefulness at all.

I love the t-shirt. It's evil.

SCIENCE shows online?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anybody have a similar list of online science shows?

Anything that covers science news weekly in physics, biotech, materials, chemistry, space, etc.

For example, Nova on PBS has some episodes posted online.

Retrocore!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not the best production but a nice look at old games you're not likely to see anywhere else.

http://www.segagagadomain.com/retrocore.htm

How 'bout The Computer Chronicles?

[Mr.Progressive]

You can download all the episodes (573!) of the PBS series The Computer Chronicles from Archive.org. Its run was from 1983 to 2002 so it's extremely dated material. But nostalgia tech is cool too!

http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles

One day every ZDTV/TechTV/G4TV alumnus

[elrous0]

will have his own 15 minutes of videocast.

-Eric

HEY: TWIT is now a videocast! Da ScreenSavers!

[Catbeller]

They are now recording video and the first and second shows are now free for the taking!

http://twit.tv/

The Screen Savers have returned, all must rejoice!
Leo LaPorte, Patrick Norton, Roger and just about everyone in the geek world who used to guest on TechTV are showing up weekly.

From The Shadows

[djtriv]

I was disappointed that From the Shadows wasn't included on this list. It's my favorite show, plus it often includes Yoshi of TechTV/The Screensavers fame.

Re:From The Shadows

[Anonymous Coward]

um... From The Shadows is on the list!

I don't know if I want this...

[Landshark17]

I don't know if I want this, where I'm from channel 9 is UPN.

Re:OT: Trolls needed

[Anonymous Coward]

Messages like this one make reading /. disgusting sometimes.

Rsc - http://rsc.tk/

One year since...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's been just about a year since TechTV was gutted and converted into G4/Tech TV...

[Cheesy 80's Music]
I want my,
I want my,
I want my Tech TV... back

Another one(spanish)

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, i know, another spanish-low-budget-cableshow, we (the third world people) could never afford to do anything as expensive as the shows you already have posted but here are another two cents:

Dominio Digital

blablabla

[wine]

You know, the great thing of traditional Radio and TV is that time slots are limited. Podcasts do not have such a limit and it usually shows.

until the bandwith onus is relieved...

[trickyrickb]

creativity is going to be limited to those few that can afford to host large video files. Ive seen a few good possible solutions that take a bittorrent like approach and utilise peoples upstream to reduce the server load. http://www.pplive.com/ (chinese) http://www5.pplive.com/english/ (chinglish) This actually works pretty well, there's a large number of channels (although mostly in chinese, although HBO is there in english aswell as espn asia and alot of other sport channels which show english football games http://www.asiaplate.com/live.today.htm http://s2.forumforfree.com/index.php?mforum=freefo otballstr&act=idx ) and coolstreaming whos website seems to be down at the moment

Diggnation

[boarder8925]

Diggnation is absolutely horrible. All it is is Albrecht saying "bastard" all the time.

Amanda Congdon - Rocketboom

[Danzigism]

show charlie murphy yer titties bitch!!!

Content Syndication

[StreetFire.net]

Darren,
      I work for a "IPTV" broadcast company, and we are about to debut a "technology" channel. If you'd like to syndicate your content feel free to contact us. We also provide free web hosting for video creators such as yourself.

Guess I better add to the conversation to keep this from being SPAM huh? ;-)

          There are a lot of good sites out there making great video shows, as someone in the industry I think the real challenge is reaching your audience. RSS is designed for this, but you only reach the techno-elite. RSS is a very low level technology, just like XML, HTML etc are. The real power of bringing together syndication, content, and audiences will be seen by the future wave of applications that leverage these under-riding technologies. Exciting times we live in!

-Adam

.NET Show?

[Zodman]

I was surprised not to see Microsoft's .NET Show on there. Okay, so it isn't about gaming (it's about Microsoft's new technology), but when you're living in the most isolated city in the world it's an excellent source of information. Usually running around an hour, the in depth interviews are exellent. http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/

Re:OT: Trolls needed

[bhpaddock]

Grow up.