TK Junk Mail
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|  Television on the Internet taking off for real
»news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080411/tc···netmiptv
It's been a long time coming but television on the Internet appears finally to be taking off, opening up a new viewing experience for free and helping to fight online piracy.
One of the newest services, Hulu, which was launched a month ago in the United States, is backed by media giant NBC Universal and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Britain's giant state-owned BBC Corporation announced recently that it is teaming up with two of the country's leading commercial channels, ITV and Channel 4, to launch an online video joint venture around the middle of this year.
Several web-based TV services have been launched in the past few years. These include Joost that was set-up in 2006 by the Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, creators of the illegal music file-sharing service Kazaa, as well as Babelgum, Vuze and Veoh, which is the grand old man of the pack having been set-up in 2003.
The cost of running the sites, however, is very high due to the heavy bandwidth.
"No one has come up yet with an effective business model for ad-supported long-form video on the web and the company that does might just hit on a gold mine," the specialist next-generation media and entertainment magazine FutureMedia underlined in its April edition. There are more and more FREE LEGAL sources of video on the internet than ever.
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FrostyMelon
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Colorado Springs, CO | Hulu is pretty cool. I find myself over there watching items quite a bit. |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | reply to TK Junk Mail
But you still can't watch them on your TV! |
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Corydon
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Yeah, as long as my TV isn't on my home network, I'll probably keep watching the old fashioned way. Not that I really watch that much TV in the first place.
I just can't really get into watching TV shows at my desk.
I may build myself a dedicated computer connected to the TV for shows I find online in the future, but first I need to upgrade my old analog TV set. It would be nice to be able to cut the cable completely, but I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to do that yet.
All this won't happen for a while though...my last big wad of cash went for building myself a new computer and my next one is going on buying my sister and her fiance a nice wedding gift 
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Southparkstudios.com just launched on April 1st a video player where they have every episode on-line, uncensored, and Free  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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dadkins
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said by Matt :But you still can't watch them on your TV! Uhm... some of us can!  
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Matt
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| I knew I should have included without a Media Center PC directly connected to your TV.
Call me when I can stream flash videos from my Vista MCE to my XBox 360. |
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dadkins
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| said by Matt :I knew I should have included without a Media Center PC directly connected to your TV. Call me when I can stream flash videos from my Vista MCE to my XBox 360. Can't help you there Matt. 
I have VGA, S Video out, and HDMI.
Whatever is being displayed on this laptop, can be sent to just about any(newer) TV or display.
But seeing as this laptop is one of my TVs, displaying flash(or anything else for that matter) is fairly straight forward.
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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Richard B
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The penitential is there but...
"No one has come up yet with an effective business model for ad-supported long-form video on the web and the company that does might just hit on a gold mine," the specialist next-generation media and entertainment magazine Future Media underlined in its April edition."
The problems the media companies are straming of their shows to be stream on their own site. I just watched the new episode of Battlestar Galatica on Sifi.com Unless one has made a deal with the studios a third party company will have a hard them to compete. Why use joost when I can go to CBS.com
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | reply to dadkins
My TV also has all those. I just don't want another piece of equipment sitting there when the XBox 360 is perfectly capable of displaying flash, MS just cripples it. |
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JokerCPoC
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said by dadkins :Can't help you there Matt. I have VGA, S Video out, and HDMI. Whatever is being displayed on this laptop, can be sent to just about any(newer) TV or display. But seeing as this laptop is one of my TVs, displaying flash(or anything else for that matter) is fairly straight forward. Sorry, I couldn't resist! Me I have a 25' DVI connection along with audio to My 57" TV, So what ever's on the PC I can watch in a wide screen format on TV, If I wanted too.
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Hambone
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Even under ideal conditions television programming sucks. Cell phones cause tumors.
Go ahead enjoy yourselves. Drink some aspartame laced soda out of a plastic bottle while you watch. Just don't expect me to subsidize your kids neurosurgeon 10-15 years from now.
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FiL
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Silver Spring, MD | reply to dadkins
gotdamnit dadkins... lol. u lucky son of a.......
stop showing off. lol. |
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footballdude
join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO
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said by Hambone :Even under ideal conditions television programming sucks. Cell phones cause tumors. Go ahead enjoy yourselves. Drink some aspartame laced soda out of a plastic bottle while you watch. Just don't expect me to subsidize your kids neurosurgeon 10-15 years from now. This from a guy with a can of Spam over his name? Lol.
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