Category: NBC

ThePirateBay might be blocked in the US

Paul

I was looking around on Google and thought I just for giggles check out the Piratebay complaints. I tried going to the site and here’s what Popups:

notauthorized

[ad#ad2-right]I tried on OpenVPN and my Local ISP, It keeps saying that. I then tried on my Cricket Modem and it tells me the connection has been interrupted, like something stops the connection in the first place. I can ping it and I can Tracert the Site but I can’t even view it. I would like to know if Anyone else is having this problem also. Although I’ve not checked Thepiratebay.org complaints for quite some time because I’ve been so busy with my website. If you want to watch your favorite shows check out these sites like Hulu, CBS, NBC, ABC, ABC FAMILY and TNT.TV for free. I am just curious as to what happened and does this have anything to do with Net Neutrality?   Anyway I wanted to talk about this and see what people are saying.  Anyone know what is going on?  Let’s talk about this and help everyone by saying what you know.   I don’t know if Thepiratebay.org is down but I do wonder if someone is preventing people from getting to the website.   I’ll update when I have more information.

Superbowl 2009 Ad’s are on HULU

Paul

Now I don’t have to watch the Superbowl to see all the ads. The Day after the Superbowl, Hulu releases the ads that were at the half time. So here they are:

So what ones do I like:

HD Ware in Downloads!

Paul

Although, I think HD is the same thing as Blu-ray.  Most people now a days are looking into the the download section instead of having a DVD.  So here is what I think they missed.  Some things you might be missing is that Hulu has decided to take on the cause and start publishing the HD videos.

Having seen, the devastation of the format war. Engadget talked about this same little thing.   Either way I think we only begun to see the relevance and cost of downloading.  We’ve got two different formats trying to get on the bandwidth of your local ISP.  Here’s where it get hard.  Which of the two would you rather download, a 8 gig or a 20 gig file.  Then you have to think of how much time it will take to download the file so you could watch it.

As you can see it gets so hard to download all these types of files when you could stream it.  Yes you could download it but downloading it takes time.  Why not watch it in relatively short time, like 10 minutes or so!! So I thought I throw out a few ideas on stream this HD without having to download it.

Hulu

As with Anyhting else, You can have standard definition videos and High Def Videos come from this little site.  It takes so little time going to site that you to can find some really good videos at this.  This show That I used as an example.

Hulu HD

CBS

Having been using CBS for all my standard def and high def experiences.  I’ve found that this site is also just as good as Hulu.  Although I think Hulu is the best there is, this is definitely second on my list!!


NBC

NBC has so many shows coming to there fall line up, I actually have them on my list also for third.  Although they will never compete with Hulu due to the fact they have server and lag issues they have been really nice to go to when I need to find a program that I’ve missed or wanted to watch.

ABC Family

ABC Family has so many good shows on that are original and also very nice to watch.  Most of these others that I’ve listed. The one that I like is:

KyleXY

Fancast

This is the the last one.  It’s called fancast.  They actually have like a variety of networks linked into this little site.  They have NBC, CBS, and Hulu which is really good.  I like to go here to find some of the ones that others don’t have.  Let me show you one  of them that you can only watch at fancast.

Farscape

I am sure there are others that you can only watch there on Fancast but that one is the one that I’ve found that I can only watch there.  You can even watch trailers there to.  If you know something that I’ve missed please leave a comment.  I want to find out more free streaming sites.

NBC continues anything-but-Apple strategy with SanDisk deal

Paul

It’s a day of the week that ends in “day,” so that means NBC is furiously working on yet another online TV venture that has nothing to do with Apple. Today’s announcement involves a partnership with SanDisk that will allow the users of SanDisk’s Fanfare service to watch current shows from several of NBC’s channels. In addition to several “vintage” shows, content from NBC, USA Network, the SCI FI Channel, and Bravo will be available through Fanfare beginning in January.

By “protecting content,” Perrette means that SanDisk will be utilizing its security expertise to implement some serious DRM on the video files. The companies plan to “explore the implementation” of watermarking and filtering technology, but neither elaborated further on what either of those things would entail. We assume, however, that NBC’s content will be strictly tied to the PC it was downloaded through, the TakeTV player it has been placed on, and its corresponding TV dock.

[Via Arstechnica]

Well they are still trying to prove DRM is a good thing, I don’t think. I think it is a waste of time!! Oh well, Only time will tell!!

Hulu Launches Private Beta, Makes Very Good First Impressions

Paul

Last March NBC Universal and News Corporation announced a joint venture that we initially thought would result in a direct competitor to YouTube. As details emerged, it became clear that the two media conglomerates were not planning a video sharing website for user generated content but rather an online distribution channel for premium video content, including TV shows, movies, and short clips.

In the months following the companies’ initial press release, we gave the joint venture a lot of grief for failing to pick a name for the project, eventually settling on a name – Hulu – that meant “cease” and “desist” in Swahili, copying Google’s mission statement, and receiving not the greatest vote of confidence from NBC Universal’s own chief digital officer.

Behind all of this criticism was a high degree of doubt that NBC and News Corp. were ever going to get Hulu out the door before the joint venture became irrelevant. In September, NBC had even announced a video downloading service that appeared to cannibalize its own joint venture with News Corp. However, this past week Hulu confirmed that it would indeed hit its self-imposed October deadline by launching in private beta on Monday, October 29th. And this past Friday, CEO Jason Kilar and other Hulu representatives demonstrated the new service to us.

While we have not been able to try out the private beta ourselves yet, I was very impressed by the preview of Hulu’s interface and the bulk of its features. Before going into my thoughts about the website, however, I should get some of the many details about Hulu on the table, especially since it’s been months since the original announcement.

Hulu is still a joint venture exclusively between NBC Universal and News Corporation. It exists as a website through which users can stream a collection of TV shows, movies, and short clips on-demand for free without any limits on how many times you can view each video. Hulu also exists as a distribution network of premium content for several partner websites – AOL, MSN, MySpace, Comcast, and Yahoo – that will display Hulu’s videos for free but in their own branded players. In addition to these partnerships, users themselves form a viral distribution network of sorts since Hulu allows its videos to be embedded in any website and shared via email. Hulu makes money in all cases from advertising, which it displays in and around the videos it serves. I’ll go more into the details of embedding and advertising later on.

The only problem that I see is that you can’t expand the picture it’s in a window with other stuff!!