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WB Takes a Step Online - Which is the Right Direction!
(Tue 04/29/2008 08:39am)
NYT's Article
okay, trying to get over the horrible color schemes and dayglo annoyances
ahem
Apparently the WB is making a comeback, with ad-supported free episodes of its best shows (Buffy, Gilmore Girls, etc) plus some other content it's partners have rights to (Friends.)
This is nothing but a good thing.
With more and more tv content available online, to be viewable whenever people want instead of being held to broadcast scheduling, we will start shows survive or fail based on the interest people have in watching them instead of competing tv scheduling and times available for people to watch shows.
I don't care about the ads so much. That's par for the course. I think they will soon learn that embedding ads in the shows themselves is not the best way to do things, but for now I'll suffer through.
First many shows put their recent episodes online (Lost, BSG, etc.) and we have options like XBOX Marketplace (I think it's like $2 an episode and I've caught missed How I Met Your Mother and Supernatural episodes this way) and now sites like Hulu and the new WB.com.
The more people who watch shows and purchase movies online, the bigger the push for the industry to force fiber optic cables to all residents and BOOM - much faster internet, and the digital revolution will have been won!
Matter o' time.
(Tue 04/29/2008 08:39am)
NYT's Article
okay, trying to get over the horrible color schemes and dayglo annoyances
ahem
Apparently the WB is making a comeback, with ad-supported free episodes of its best shows (Buffy, Gilmore Girls, etc) plus some other content it's partners have rights to (Friends.)
This is nothing but a good thing.
With more and more tv content available online, to be viewable whenever people want instead of being held to broadcast scheduling, we will start shows survive or fail based on the interest people have in watching them instead of competing tv scheduling and times available for people to watch shows.
I don't care about the ads so much. That's par for the course. I think they will soon learn that embedding ads in the shows themselves is not the best way to do things, but for now I'll suffer through.
First many shows put their recent episodes online (Lost, BSG, etc.) and we have options like XBOX Marketplace (I think it's like $2 an episode and I've caught missed How I Met Your Mother and Supernatural episodes this way) and now sites like Hulu and the new WB.com.
The more people who watch shows and purchase movies online, the bigger the push for the industry to force fiber optic cables to all residents and BOOM - much faster internet, and the digital revolution will have been won!
Matter o' time.
