Thursday, September 13, 2007
TV Veterans Produce Web-only Show
Backstage: "The creative minds behind such TV shows as 'Thirtysomething' and 'My So-Called Life' are launching a Web-based show, hoping to find the artistic freedom online that they say is lacking on broadcast networks."
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I think it is a very smart move for ABC to start considering these different options for reaching out to different audience. Especially when the piracy is much easier and more accessible, it may be much better to go-with-the-flow and stop trying to beat the system. NBC just finished their contract with iTune for their sale and didn't come to an agreement for renewal of the contract. I personally think it's only bad for NBC, hopefully they made a right choice for themselves.
internet tv is a great idea, now its just time to stop all the fighting about copyrights and piracy. some stations have just begun putting their shows online without much in the way of copy protection -- this is a good thing.
its just sad that they're resorting to using myspace to do this. that site will be phased out of common culture eventually and where will it leave them?
I do believe that internet is the future of television, but it will be many years before then. Most people find it difficult to get into the mindset to orient couches around a 21" computer screen. The real way to encourage people to watch the content online is to further incorporate hooking up your computer to a television. Apparently this is a hurdle that many television companies don't want to deal with simply because it interferes with their sale of DVD players and the like.
If you're interested in free online TV there is a program called Joost that I have checked out. It's the same Swedish blokes who created Kazaa, but this one is 100% legal. It's not like conventional television with programs running all the time, but is instead more like a DVR with a ton of prerecorded shows that you can watch when you feel like it. Right now they are still in the Beta testing process, so they don't have a wealth of shows.
Hopefully the idea of web-TV will lift off, and we will have to deal with advertisement banners only instead of five minute commercial breaks.
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