3sat (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} 3sat) wrote,@ 2009-02-11 07:58:00 |
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The state of internet tv, 2009
There seems to be no shortage of startups that want to deal with hosting, indexing, and providing ads for internet TV. Recently, Tim and I have started using casttv to find tv episodes when we want to view a series.
We watched Firefly last week, hosted by hulu, supported by ads. It was in amazing quality, displaying acceptably on my projector. I was really excited that perhaps internet tv had finally happened.
Then we wanted to watch Heroes. We haven't watched any Heroes, so we needed to find the first season somewhere. It is nowhere.
Alas, I shall again resort to piracy in order to watch television. Sometimes I wonder if the big studios trying to not make money from my demographic...
There seems to be no shortage of startups that want to deal with hosting, indexing, and providing ads for internet TV. Recently, Tim and I have started using casttv to find tv episodes when we want to view a series.
We watched Firefly last week, hosted by hulu, supported by ads. It was in amazing quality, displaying acceptably on my projector. I was really excited that perhaps internet tv had finally happened.
Then we wanted to watch Heroes. We haven't watched any Heroes, so we needed to find the first season somewhere. It is nowhere.
Alas, I shall again resort to piracy in order to watch television. Sometimes I wonder if the big studios trying to not make money from my demographic...
