HBO Launching Hulu-like Site?
HBO GO is part of a larger cable industry effort, sometimes called TV Everywhere, that seeks to preserve existing its subscriber base by making more content available on demand via the Internet.
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HBO GO is part of a larger cable industry effort, sometimes called TV Everywhere, that seeks to preserve existing its subscriber base by making more content available on demand via the Internet.
Bedtime used to mean some quality time with your late-night host of choice, but the bedroom has gotten pretty crowded. The nightstand is groaning with options, including Netflix, laptops and a remote that can pull up favored prime-time programs on the DVR. Let me see, that episode of “House” I missed or Conan O’Brien?
I've never even heard of Glee...that's what two kids and Nick Jr. will do to your TV watching. No regrets though..TV sucks.
Forgot about some of these..
"Sezmi plans to be a cable competitor, offering live television content via broadband Internet services. Users will have a set-top box allowing them to access both broadcast and cable content, along with on-demand films and Internet video content. The system is promising more personalization options than existing TV providers as well as much lower costs."
"NBA Digital is tipping off a toggling computer companion to the pro basketball league’s telecasts"
One of the few shows where I'll actually watch the "marathon" when it's on TV.
R.I.P Rod Serling.
"This is the way the Internet is supposed to work: Something amazing happens on TV on Thursday night and everyone talks about it, and watches it, on the Web on Friday."
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And it's a good thing..I haven't watched Late Night TV in years..or at least since my kids were born. :)
"Suffice it to say that "30 for 30" redeems the network's dopier moments and then some. I will watch every moment of every "30 for 30" documentary; if you have even a fleeting curiosity about recent sports history, you should as well." - Larry Dobrow.
Really good read.
"Writing in 1960, the great press critic A. J. Liebling, noting the squeeze on his profession, fretted about the emergence of the one-newspaper town:
The worst of it is that each newspaper disappearing below the horizon carries with it, if not a point of view, at least a potential emplacement for one. A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
Liebling, who died in 1963, was spared the looming prospect of the no-newspaper town. There is, of course, the Internet, which he could not have imagined. Its enthusiasts rightly point out that digital media are in nearly every way superior to paper and ink, and represent, in essence, an upgrade in technology. But those giant presses and barrels of ink and fleets of delivery trucks were never what made newspapers invaluable. What gave newspapers their value was the mission and promise of journalism—the hope that someone was getting paid to wade into the daily tide of manure, sort through its deliberate lies and cunning half-truths, and tell a story straight. There is a reason why newspaper reporters, despite polls that show consistently low public regard for journalists, are the heroes of so many films. The reporter of lore was not some blue blood or Ivy League egghead, beholden to society’s powerful interests, be they corporate, financial, or political. We liked our newsmen to be Everymen—shoe-leather intellectuals, cynical, suspicious, and streetwise like Humphrey Bogart in Deadline—U.S.A. or Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story or Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in All the President’s Men. The Internet is now replacing Everyman with every man. Anyone with a keyboard or cell phone can report, analyze, and pull a chair up to the national debate. If freedom of the press belongs to those who own one, today that is everyone. The city with one eye (glass or no) has been replaced by the city with a million eyes. This is wonderful on many levels, and is why the tyrants of the world are struggling, with only partial success, to control the new medium. But while the Internet may be the ultimate democratic tool, it is also demolishing the business model that long sustained news papers and TV’s network-news organizations. Unless someone quickly finds a way to make disinterested reporting pay, to compensate the modern equivalent of the ink-stained wretch (the carpal-tunnel curmudgeon?), the Web may yet bury Liebling’s cherished profession."
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