In2TV
Desperately seeking a use for all that bandwidth your cable modem provides? Well, you're in luck: AOL and Warner Brothers have just launched an online TV station, offering vintage television shows on demand.
It's ad-supported, but you can watch what you want, when you want it. In my opinion, this is simply the vanguard of a radical shift in the way home entertainment is presented to us, as the television industry slowly merges with the internet over the next decade or so.
It is also the most practical solution to broadcasters' DVR woes, as they regain control of the advertising if they digitalize both ends of the service. Sort of a case of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." Of course, it'll only last until someone comes up with a stream buffer that emulates a DVR...
It's ad-supported, but you can watch what you want, when you want it. In my opinion, this is simply the vanguard of a radical shift in the way home entertainment is presented to us, as the television industry slowly merges with the internet over the next decade or so.
It is also the most practical solution to broadcasters' DVR woes, as they regain control of the advertising if they digitalize both ends of the service. Sort of a case of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." Of course, it'll only last until someone comes up with a stream buffer that emulates a DVR...
posted by Jar(egg)head at 09:17
2 Comments:
You alone will cause productivity to fall in my department with such postings. Curse you sir! Now where is my………………. the hell with it, guess I’ll catch up on Babylon 5 episodes that I missed.
Maybe the sky really IS falling. When AOL is in the "vanguard" of anything other than disposable frisbee distribution, surely the end is at hand.
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