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Viacom Puts the Daily Show Archive Online
tburton writes "Viacom has put the entire eight year run of the Daily Show with John Stewart online. The content is available from the official Daily Show site, and features clip rating, tags, and numerous community features. The whole thing is supported by relatively unobtrusive contextual ads. 'Viacom's decision to post its entire archive--while fighting YouTube in the courts--sets the scene for a battle between the established media players and their high profile entertainment brands against the user generated content sites, most notable YouTube. Also watching closely the Viacom experiment will be the telco IPTV industry which has seen the market place change rapidly as the quality of online video continues to improve, with at least one platform/site, Vimeo, already offering 1280X720 HD quality direct from the browser.'"
It got Slashdotted.
I don't like it when my TV / VCR gets Slashdotted.
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This is for one reason and one reason only, because GooTube exists. If there was no such thing available to so many people, the media companies wouldn't give a flying rats ass.
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But because people are obviously interested in this medium and they are pissed that Viacom is being a bunch of fucking litigious bastards, they had to do something... We'll see just how it stacks up but based on the other networks' actions, I doubt it will be nearly as popular as the content available in one place - YouTube.
I realize they want to control the content they own and all, but seriously, isn't it just easier to have someone else foot the bandwidth bills and to have your viewership get it the way they want? They will never learn
Hasn't the Daily Show been on tv for more than eight years? Or do they just consider the Craig Kilborn years to be a completely different show?
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Fine, they funded the IP and want to act all pissy about asserting their "control"... do it without my viewership or support.
I don't care how good the actual program is, any more than I care how good an RIAA-backed CD is. It may be ad hominem (ad corporatem?) but if they want to take their ball and go home I'm not going to follow begging.
Either I watch on YouTube, or I don't watch at all. I'm not bookmarking 5,000,000 video sites to do casual browsing. That's stupid.
Now I can watch some episodes that aren't a daily rant on the Bush Administration.
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ABC.com also offers streaming, 1280X1024 HD full episodes on their website. It's still in beta, but works fine.
The Daily Show has been around since 1996, but 8 years does cover all the Jon Stewart years.
Also, full shows are not available, just clips, though supposedly you can piece together most episodes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071018/wr_nm/dailyshow_dc_2
I just wonder what, say, DirecTV and (to a lesser extent due to bundled broadband) Cable TV operators will do once enough people start ditching their video TV subscriptions, or at least curtailing them to a sizeable extent (I realize this is quite a long ways off, but still, I can see more than a couple of operators getting nervous about it).
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One thing this does is solve the problem that people want to share in community something from The Daily Show that they found really funny, but there's no legal way to do it. Now, you can just link to the right clip from your blog, and put your comments, and welcome others.
There may be less need to sue YouTube, because there will be far less reason for anyone to grab a clip and upload it to YouTube in the first place.
It's like the old "common-sense-test" question: if you go into the bathroom and the tub is overflowing, what do you do first? Answer: shut off the water. So they should stop making The Daily Show, and there'd be no problem.
Wait, that wasn't my point at all. This common sense question has nothing to do with the problem. Drat, my analogies never work out!
Where are the Craig Kilborn eps?
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But for this to really have an effect, Viacom is going to have to tackle some bandwidth issues.
I also hope that someone puts the entire testimony of Stephen Colbert & John Stewart online from the youtube/viacom trial. I believe they are just as sarcastic and realistic in real life as they are in their shows.
It would be nice to watch the exxpression on the judge and juror's faces as they hear what John & Steve have to say.
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That's nice, but the Daily Show has been on for 11 years now.
This guy's the limit!
Because nobody will buy DVDs of old news programs and they know it.
When I have control of my content, I have control of the costs and benefits. It appears to me they took their copyrighted videos off youtube in order to start up their own service. They'll control the look, feel and ad revenue. That's the big key here. Comedy Central (et al) will get money in return. Maybe not a profit but Google will see little to no profit.
I think it's a good business decision provided they can keep up with the demand.
In an era of unparalleled access to data and information and an easy means of transporting it. I wonder if future generations will condemn us for using so much of our resources solely to entertain ourselves.
Just a thought,
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't really like watching a show that's been sliced and diced into little pieces...I generally prefer the whole thing. I'm sure that having individual parts reduces overall bandwidth for their servers, but could there at least be an option for the whole show? Otherwise, I don't see how this is any better than if someone were to download it at a higher resolution/bitrate from a torrent site.
This is nice and all, but this Flash video crap is stupid. Not only is it not cached properly by web browsers, but people don't watch TV on their tiny computer screens. I watch content via my Apple TV on my gigantic HDTV home theater, I have no interest in sitting at a keyboard waiting for video snippets to load in some Flash video player with a poor user interface.
At least with YouTube I can access the content directly from my Apple TV (not that YouTube has much to offer in their typical 3-second or whatever clips). I suspect if MySpace gets enough video content Apple will eventually add support for that as well. But companies like Viacom and NBC who decide to offer their own site of Flash video are going to find themselves unnecessarily limiting their potential audience. They'd be much smarter to figure out a way to centralize distribution.
I was happily watching eposides till some goof submitted it to slashdot. Daft fool!
You could tie bows on this show, present it to me on the bare breast of Jessica Alba, and I still wouldn't watch it. I prefer my disinformation from late night radio shows, and not injected under the subtle guise of humor. It's almost like listening to Rush Limbaugh for three hours straight.
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The Daily Show is news satire. It's relevant for about one or two weeks. Why would anyone want to watch 8 year old episodes?
This is great. Now when conservatives say that the Daily Show will fail if Hillary gets elected, we can point directly to how badly they ripped into the first Clinton administration.
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How long do you think it will be before someone comes up with a way to automatically view, save, and organize/categorize all these clips? Open DShowDL Wait X hours Ding! Everything!
I wonder what idiot had the idea to fund this project of Viacoms?
Even if they ended up cash positive, it would have been more efficient (not to mention more user friendly!) to have been integrated with a pre-existing online video distribution system.
Of course if YouTube was just unwilling to talk to Viacom, then it is Google who needs to beat someone on the head.
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Uhhh, yeah, I'm all about "sticking it to the man" too and I get rather pissed off when media outfits try to use DRM to lock down content that I've paid for, but what exactly is the problem with this?
Try to access it from Canada, and you'll see what the problem is: As of noon today [10/17/2007], Canadian visitors to Comedy Central's website will now be redirected to thecomedynetwork.caTheir fucking site needs some obscure bullshit app from Microsoft to work, too. It's bad enough they're trying to keep me away from the sites I want to visit, but they just had to have it use some non-standard crap too, just to add insult to injury.
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My math is terrible and my method was roughly estimated, but not counting commercial time or the last 2 years (which I remember well enough) I'd say I still have about 400 hours of daily show to watch. Maybe someone not as lazy as me can give a better number.
It's technically Apple's fault, and as I said in my original comment Apple can add support for more sites when they feel the need. My point was that, by balkanizing video distribution, companies such as Viacom and NBC run the risk of creating a fractured consumer market. Sure they get some benefits from distributing their own content, but is it enough to offset the loss of viewers? It may be for now, but how about three years from now, or five? How many people won't have integrated internet viewing with their big TVs as opposed to resorting to viewing from a web browser on a computer display?
SNL hasn't been funny for 25 years...and...the Daily Show? Honestly, how many high schoolers ARE there? :>
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""The whole thing is support by relatively unobtrusive contextual ads."
Kinda demonstrates the case against p2p file transfers..."
Kinda demonstrates the case against relatively unobtrusive contextual adds.
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Why would I want to watch HD video in my browser? I'd rather watch it full-screen with software designed for playing back video.
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DivX's Stage 6 (also in beta) has also offered HD quality flicks for quite some time. Given YouTube never seems to have quality or length even remotely close, I can only guess how long they'll last at their current resolutions.
And STILL nothing on!
What?
Profanity-and-caps-filled screeds that barely express a coherent opinion at all?
Seems the younger generation really is taking over. Too bad.
You guys are all wrapped up in the legality and whatnot when the greater issue is right in front of you: Motherload, the comedy central content delivery system is abysmal. It forgets what it's doing, fails to load reliably, spams the same video ads over and over while simultaneously showing you photo and text ads for the exact same product (seeing the Starbucks logo in 3 places at once does nothing to affect my buying habits, sorry) It's just a pain in the hinder. I'll go anywhere, youtube, gootube, even myfreepaysite if I can find a user friendly interface that isn't going to abuse me more than the dirty television does.
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I'm probably only one of three people in the world who even remembers it, but what about the 2.5 years with Kilborn?
Most people I talk to about the show don't even know it existed before Stewart, or what the lira was. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the rights owners would rather put those days behind them.
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Uh... it claims to have 7,134 videos, but it only shows 55. Where are the rest?
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Did anyone else notice the little "BETA" tag in the logo/image? Not just on Video, but the site itself. WHY? All websites are in beta now, whether they need to be or not - this is a relatively "simple" website with some content streaming, not a big RIA.
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