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YouTube Adds Full-Length Television Shows
thefickler writes "YouTube has moved to put full-length television shows on its site for the first time. Historically, YouTube has hosted a bewildering and attractive variety of video clips, the vast majority of which have been under ten minutes in length. YouTube has announced that it had finalized a deal with CBS to offer shows such as Star Trek, MacGyver, Beverly Hills 90210, and The Young and the Restless. I can't wait to watch The Young and the Restless!"
I'd like to see Google switch over to the video tag and a free codec. That would make everything perfect.
Put identity in the browser.
...Hulu sucks, since it won't stream outside the USA. No mention in the article as to whether YouTube will add regional restrictions on these full-length shows, but let's hope they can convince the studios otherwise. If not, well, bittorrent works just fine.
Oh no... it's the future.
It might have to done something with the fact that Hulu's "video library can only be streamed within the United States".
Some people go to great lengths to put their feet over an axe, just to see if it hurts or not.
I think it is a smart idea to have star trek on youtube to compensate for the rest of the proposed garbage listed in the story. Hopefully the trend of 1 in 4 television shows on youtube not being garbage will continue.
Does anybody know where to find those full length shows on Youtube?
How do I uncompress my MD5 archive?
Californication is censored, both language and nudity-wise, on YouTube. Normally for most programs it wouldn't matter, but it was the raunchy stuff that really propelled the comedy along in this case. Either have the full-length shows uncensored (possibly with a warning for moral individuals), or GTFO.
Several times I've found some interesting TV series and decided to watched a few episodes, only to have to endure the task of finding all the parts, which are never listed in any sort of order in the "Related videos" list for this type of use. And then there is the problem with the "QuickList" not clearing videos that you have removed from it, or occasionally not adding one, or forgetting some next time the page loads, forcing you to try and find the parts again.
Lots of the other sites with full length shows interrupt the action in odd places to add in ads and the resume on the show is breaky and odd.
Also Hulu is not the only competition for this service it seems especially for nostalgia really old shows that there are a couple of services offering this.
I watched Chico and the Man on AOL video for example. I hit Barney Miller on Hulu I believe and aren't there other sites as well?
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It's called the WORLD WIDE Web, assholes.
I piss off bigots.
I mean, having the full-length video available is fine in theory, but watching two large pixels have a buzz-saw competition instead of a dialog isn't really all that interesting.
The shows and their original networks:
Star Trek: NBC
MacGyver: ABC
BH 90210: Fox
Y & R: CBS
I guess I don't understand how these things work...
With short clips the YouTube UI is bad enough. For full-length TV shows I want:
- a UI that can be controlled from arbitrary input devices, e.g. an IR remote and rotary controller (Griffin Powermate). Sitting at your computer doesn't cut it, I want control from my comfy chair.
- a full-featured UI with controls for skip forward/reverse (at short/long intervals), aspect ratio, mute, etc.
Basically, I want the VLC UI.
"This video is not available in your territory". Great, locality-based DRM.
BTW, what's with the !jewtube tag ?
Cable providers realize that if free or very low cost wireless becomes a reality and widespread more content providers will move to web distribution; using either commercial or subscription models. That will lessen the value of their cable franchise as consumers no longer want or need large bundles; forcing them to change their pricing structure to compete. As a side "benefit" they potentially will lose the internet and VIOP business as well as people move to the wireless option. Meanwhile, the big content providers will want a bigger cut for providing content since they already can reach consumers directly via the web; lessening their dependence on cable.
The real challenge will be for the marginal channels - the ones that get carried but have small viewership - can they translate that into a profitable web based service if cable loses enough customers so the cable revenue no longer can sustain their production costs?
OTOH, sports fan will get a bonanza since it now becomes easy and lucrative to broadcast all of your teams games anywhere since you would potential have a big enough subscriber base to make it worthwhile to stream via YouTube- a boon to big time college sports with world wide fan bases.
Make no mistake, this is the most serious threat cable has faced in a long time. Which is why they are playing white space wireless up as a "technical" threat - they want the government to squash this before it has a chance to take off.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Seriously. One of the things I hate about watching TV is the fact that you have to depend on a station to carry a show, and play it, all of it. It's fine when it hits the rerun zone, but there is no real assurance they will play it totally and in the intended order. So, much of my 20th century TV watching was watching the repeats waiting for what I didn't see to come around.
The first stuff I started to see was on AOL's in2tv. They screwed up Rocky and Bullwinkle, one of "those" series where order and completeness matters, not so much that they don't carry a season but they broke up their "show" into their various little shows. Now we have Veoh and Hulu, and the quality of both is pretty good.
So it makes me wonder, now that these things exist, sites that carry series that have little to no commercial value, what point is there to 100+ channels? Seriously it's reached the point that I should actually ditch the cable since all of my TV needs save the local news are covered online. Even cartoon network.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Cartman has taken over slashdot.
I think the word "legally" is missing in the write-up. Episodes of some TV shows have been available for quite a while now; I watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager I had missed on YouTube many months ago.
My web domain.
Yes. I hear there's a country with about 300 million inhabitants there.
None of that counts unless they have F Troop.
One of the biggest mistakes that large copyright holders make is hording their older assets. If they've made a heck of a lot of money on them, why not release them into a mostly free venue, so that they can scoop in more potential customers? It's worked for Microsoft; they turned piracy into a way to keeping people focused on Windows and Windows-based products.
People pray to your man all the time and He doesn't do a thing. It's a sad spectacle indeed.
Vimeo at least does true HD video. Makes a huge difference when I'm using a 32" LCD for a computer monitor.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
WTF is wrong with Hulu, Fox, YouTube and the likes? Why obstinately limit themselves to the American market when it comes to online broadcasting? Why fight over the same fucking market when the European market (or as a matter of fact any other) is still waiting for a single decent offer. Why the hell won't they understand that the web can be treated like TV, if only they took the pain to provide the same kind of content! I mean, it's like they just don't see any potential there, or the little they see isn't enough for them to bother with foreign Web markets.
You just got troll'd!
But the 90210 characters were so compelling! There was that handsome dude with the sideburns, and that other handsome dude with the slightly pointier sideburns, and that ditsy blond chic, and that other ditsy blond chick.
How could you not love a show with rich, beautiful people whining about how tough their lives are?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
You may be right that Youtube's is still inferior to Tv's resolution, although I find it good enough for watching on the computer or on an ordinary 5 years old TV... And it's even better than a worn-out VHS ;)
But that's not the point here : the important thing is that they're streaming full episodes, legally, on youtube. That's a change in policy, it sets a good precedent, and it could even help to make the average consumer think about so-called piracy ("why can't I download it off mininova if I can watch it on youtube?").
So while the low res might make it less appealing to the average nerd, it's still a Good Thing. (although the region locking is rubbish)
So, in the past couple of months we've seen several folks come out and support free streaming of TV shows and movies, most notably IMDB and now Youtube. What I am noticing is that none of it appears to be exclusive streaming -- most of these shows have been licensed to just about everybody. I guess from the network technology perspective, this is a good thing, so as to avoid a popular server from slashdotting one particular site. But from a competition perspective, is this really a good thing? I mean, if everybody's got the same stuff, then where's the incentive to develop a particular site over another?
You shouldn't have told us that. Now we'll have to invade.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
So, this means I won't have to pirate the videos to watch my favorite shows?
Think again.
"This video is not available in your country."
Oh well, at least I know a site that DOES let me play the videos in my country - and without ads.
But we don't have any oil!
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
www.fancast.com ? Thats the site I use. Sure there are commercials, but no more than if you watched the show on your T.V. And the commercials aren't much longer than a few seconds. Okay, so does this mean we can download these T.V. shows that are on youtube with www.file2hd.com ?
Nobody in Europe is crass enough to watch, and certainly not stupid enough to pay for, the A-Team. They might as well give it away; it has no value on this continent.
I piss off bigots.
I thought the UK was part of europe-- but I'm not too sure.. if I'm right, I'd point out the following
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Team-1-Stanley-Ellis/dp/B0002VF6BU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1223907585&sr=1-2
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,348 in DVD
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Hate replying to my myself, but went to find one of these full-length Trek episodes, clicked on it: "This video is not available in your country". So much for that.
How hard is it to get a US proxy?
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
So the big question, as far as I can see, is whether the show will be merely supported by ads, perhaps pre- and post-, or if it will be interrupted by non-skippable ads, which will be a thorough dealbreaker.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
But we don't have any oil!
There's plenty of oil, but there is a lot more profit in scarcity.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
"Everything makes sense if you just follow the dollar to its source and assume the owner is greedy."
Is the person who wants it for free any less greedy than the one who wants to sell it to them?
With short clips the YouTube UI is bad enough. For full-length TV shows I want:
- a UI that can be controlled from arbitrary input devices, e.g. an IR remote and rotary controller (Griffin Powermate). Sitting at your computer doesn't cut it, I want control from my comfy chair.
- a full-featured UI with controls for skip forward/reverse (at short/long intervals), aspect ratio, mute, etc.
Basically, I want the VLC UI.
You've got the powermate working with VLC? What distro are you running? Did you get powermate support straight from the packaging system, or did you have to compile or configure? Are you using gizmod or the other way?
There are a few old TV shows' episodes that are shorted to like 5-6 minutes long on MySpace and YouTube.
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That's not trolling. 90210 people! If that's not crap, then nothing is crap!
Clearly some buffoon at Amazon imported a whole lot of them and now they're trying to get rid of them. Yet another example of financial incompetence that's dragging the world economy down.
I piss off bigots.
Well theres plenty of scarcity over here. Theres practically no oil in my backyard at all! With such a rich lack of resources, I'm happy to share the scarcity with you.
You can come around tommorow if you like, bring a big oil tanker. I'll pump the oil out and you can have a whole damn tanker of scarcity! No charge!
3laws: No freebies, no backsies, GTFO.
After all, tons of non-americans grew up with these shows. They'll buy it in droves!
In reality, we should be giving these away to other countries to attract them, and they will be more likely to want other american shows and movies based on past favorites, which are regularly re-made and re-released anyway so that they can charge americans for it over again as well.
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Download Vidalia and View the Network. Select half a dozen US relay nodes and jot them down. Edit the configuration file 'torrc' and add the following:
ExitNodes server1, server2, server3
StrictExitNodes 1
(where server1 is the first relay node, etc)
Reboot TOR and surf as a defacto US citizen.
What the hell is wrong with the Europeans creativity, they seem to leech more than produce in the creative market for movies/t.v. shows. Britain is the only one who seem to produce quality material, although a lot of it is government subsidized.
Japanese have a firm grip on the game shows and giant tread mills.
I realise that YouTube has had fragments of professional shows forever, but what I saw as the greatness of YouTube was the fact that it encouraged user content. More and more we are moving away from a creative society, turning into one in which, while creators are celebrated if they are popular enough, it is expected that most people are mere parasites. I'm not sure what effect adding major TV productions to YouTube will have, but I have a hard time imagining that it will not put a damper on the "You" in YouTube.
OTOH it might have the opposite effect. Time will tell.
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
that just whoops ass. I might go watch all the old MacGuyver episodes one day, without having to fill my hard drive full of stuff.
Now if I can only get my mom to get internet at her house again (all the kids moved out), she can watch her favorite soap opera without having to deal with VCR tapes.
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Comparing Apples and Oranges ?
You mean liberate, right?