At $2 a show is this reasonable? Yes, actually, I think it is. If I add up the cost of my Tivo subscription and full cable, and divide by two, I think the resulting number is higher then the amount of television I watch a month. As more programs get added to this thing, I can just pay per view whenever I'm bored and I want to watch something. Television, for me, is now dead. I might miss it on days when, like, airplanes have hit the world trade center, but I'll bet I'll find other ways to get the information I want.

Check out CNN Pipeline.

Only real thing that I'm waiting on is MTV. I want my MTV. Not bullshit MTV with the Real World and all that crap. The old MTV. With music videos all the time, and the occaisonal extremely strange animated feature. Maybe what I really want is MuchMusic. Whatever. I want it to just stream to me all the time. I don't want to pay per click or choose things from a menu, and I don't want to have to install a satellite system in order to watch it. Where is my MTV? Why is there no market for this? Kids these days. God!

I've been thinking about that. Not ready for an essay or a presentation yet, still at the rant stage. This was something I was pondering talking about at PhreakNIC or some other upcoming convention.

Rattle wrote:

At $2 a show is this reasonable? Yes, actually, I think it is. If I add up the cost of my Tivo subscription and full cable, and divide by two, I think the resulting number is higher then the amount of television I watch a month. As more programs get added to this thing, I can just pay per view whenever I'm bored and I want to watch something. Television, for me, is now dead. I might miss it on days when, like, airplanes have hit the world trade center, but I'll bet I'll find other ways to get the information I want.

Check out CNN Pipeline.

As we recall from the last time this happened.
1st sign of the apocalypse: CNN.com is timing out.
Corollary: You know that video shit ain't gunna be workn.

Decius wrote:

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) and Apple® today announced that hit programming from CNN, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Music Store (www.itunes.com). The new content features such favorites as Cartoon Network’s “Johnny Bravo,” Adult Swim’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and original episodes of the award-winning documentary series “CNN Presents,” all available for viewing on a computer or iPod®.

At $2 a show is this reasonable? Yes, actually, I think it is. If I add up the cost of my Tivo subscription and full cable, and divide by two, I think the resulting number is higher then the amount of television I watch a month. As more programs get added to this thing, I can just pay per view whenever I'm bored and I want to watch something. Television, for me, is now dead. I might miss it on days when, like, airplanes have hit the world trade center, but I'll bet I'll find other ways to get the information I want.

Only real thing that I'm waiting on is MTV. I want my MTV. Not bullshit MTV with the Real World and all that crap. The old MTV. With music videos all the time, and the occaisonal extremely strange animated feature. Maybe what I really want is MuchMusic. Whatever. I want it to just stream to me all the time. I don't want to pay per click or choose things from a menu, and I don't want to have to install a satellite system in order to watch it. Where is my MTV? Why is there no market for this? Kids these days. God!

When they add Comedy Central, HBO, IFC, Sundance, the History Channels and TLC/Discovery, TV will be dead to me too.

Decius wrote:

Only real thing that I'm waiting on is MTV. I want my MTV. Not bullshit MTV with the Real World and all that crap. The old MTV. With music videos all the time, and the occasional extremely strange animated feature. Maybe what I really want is MuchMusic. Whatever. I want it to just stream to me all the time. I don't want to pay per click or choose things from a menu, and I don't want to have to install a satellite system in order to watch it. Where is my MTV? Why is there no market for this? Kids these days. God!

It's right there on the cable system. Comcast has MTV Hits! (videos all the time, no interruptions), MTV2 (a mix of programming), VH1 Soul, CMT Pure, VH1 Classic, GAC, MTV Jams, and so on.

noteworthy wrote:
Decius wrote:

Only real thing that I'm waiting on is MTV. I want my MTV. Not bullshit MTV with the Real World and all that crap. The old MTV. With music videos all the time, and the occasional extremely strange animated feature. Maybe what I really want is MuchMusic. Whatever. I want it to just stream to me all the time. I don't want to pay per click or choose things from a menu, and I don't want to have to install a satellite system in order to watch it. Where is my MTV? Why is there no market for this? Kids these days. God!

It's right there on the cable system. Comcast has MTV Hits! (videos all the time, no interruptions), MTV2 (a mix of programming), VH1 Soul, CMT Pure, VH1 Classic, GAC, MTV Jams, and so on.

Comcast doesn't carry near that many music channels in Atlanta. You live in a COLLEGE TOWN.

noteworthy wrote:

Comcast has MTV Hits! (videos all the time, no interruptions), MTV2 (a mix of programming), VH1 Soul, CMT Pure, VH1 Classic, GAC, MTV Jams, and so on.

Decius wrote:

Comcast doesn't carry near that many music channels in Atlanta. You live in a COLLEGE TOWN.

Last time I checked, Atlanta was a college town, too. Regardless, the channels are there.

Based on a ZIP code of 30345, Comcast offers:

MTV
VH-1
BET
CMT
MTV 2
MTV Hits
VH1 Classic Rock
VH1 Soul
VH1 Country
MTV Jams
Great American Country
Gospel Music Channel
BET on Jazz
BET Hip Hop
BET Gospel
FUSE
MTV en Español

This is pretty much the standard suite you'll find everywhere that Comcast has digital service, with the possible exception of the Gospel channel, which might only be offered in southern markets.

I do like my Aqua Team Hunger Force and RobotChicken, but I'll keep cable for the Science Channel and the National Geographic channel. The only bad thing being that they seem to be runing out of shows that I've not seen. Still, when they DO come out with a new one, I like to watch it premiere. I bet I-tunes will only have older shows?