Never trust big brothers. Mine used to tell me that the Enterprise could land on a planet. To do so, it flipped over on its back; internally, all of the rooms rotated to maintain a proper vertical orientation. I don't know who was dumber, him for believing that or me for believing him. Fortunately, one of us got smarter.
Clearly they do. Joss' brother Jed directed the music video and co-wrote the song (he provided the music and Felicia did the lyrics). Felicia also stars in the unaired Dollhouse episode "Epitaph One".
As for Joss helping her on this, I could be wrong but I don't believe so. I suspect his hands are full with Dollhouse.
They don't use subscriptions. It was initially self-funded and they eventually added a "donate" button to the site. They started the second season using the same model but soon made a deal for funding and distribution with Sprint and MS. They are supplementing their revenue with DVD sales (and now sales of the music video via iTunes and the mp3 through amazon.
But you are right, you could never use the same business model to produce a show like Lost and be profitable. It really all depends on how the show is written and what sets you need. When you center your show around your characters and not fancy special effects, sets, and big name guest stars, it can make a big difference in your costs.
You don't need a torrent, each episode is about 5 minutes long. You can catch all of season 1 at their youtube channel and season 2 at their watchtheguild.com. You can also find the episodes at MSN but its a bit harder to find them in the right order.
Its only a MS locking if you look at MSN that way. They are making the episodes available there (and after the first episode of season 3, they will be available on MSN at the same time as they are put on Xbox Live.
Didn't say they were profitable, just successful and it all depends on how you define successful. It this case I would say that developing a fan base counts although money never hurt anyone. Given that the WSJ article just came out and this is the first time I've seen anything about it on/. you can hardly say they have anything to do with its successs
MS Live isn't the only vehicle for distribution, the episodes are available on MSN. It was only for the first episode of Season 3 that it premiered on Xbox Live first (MSN is next week).
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It seems Media Center is just getting the vids from MSN, but it does have them organized in the right sequence. Thanks!
Never trust big brothers. Mine used to tell me that the Enterprise could land on a planet. To do so, it flipped over on its back; internally, all of the rooms rotated to maintain a proper vertical orientation. I don't know who was dumber, him for believing that or me for believing him. Fortunately, one of us got smarter.
Clearly they do. Joss' brother Jed directed the music video and co-wrote the song (he provided the music and Felicia did the lyrics). Felicia also stars in the unaired Dollhouse episode "Epitaph One". As for Joss helping her on this, I could be wrong but I don't believe so. I suspect his hands are full with Dollhouse.
Exactly. The start of season 2 is heavily based off of the the first season.
They don't use subscriptions. It was initially self-funded and they eventually added a "donate" button to the site. They started the second season using the same model but soon made a deal for funding and distribution with Sprint and MS. They are supplementing their revenue with DVD sales (and now sales of the music video via iTunes and the mp3 through amazon. But you are right, you could never use the same business model to produce a show like Lost and be profitable. It really all depends on how the show is written and what sets you need. When you center your show around your characters and not fancy special effects, sets, and big name guest stars, it can make a big difference in your costs.
You don't need a torrent, each episode is about 5 minutes long. You can catch all of season 1 at their youtube channel and season 2 at their watchtheguild.com. You can also find the episodes at MSN but its a bit harder to find them in the right order.
Its only a MS locking if you look at MSN that way. They are making the episodes available there (and after the first episode of season 3, they will be available on MSN at the same time as they are put on Xbox Live.
Didn't say they were profitable, just successful and it all depends on how you define successful. It this case I would say that developing a fan base counts although money never hurt anyone. Given that the WSJ article just came out and this is the first time I've seen anything about it on /. you can hardly say they have anything to do with its successs
MS Live isn't the only vehicle for distribution, the episodes are available on MSN. It was only for the first episode of Season 3 that it premiered on Xbox Live first (MSN is next week).