RSSUPN Screens TV Show on Google Video
By Nate Mook | Published September 26, 2005, 1:31 PM
UPN and Google have teamed up to screen the first episode of its new show "Everybody Hates Chris" on Google Video for the next four days. Viewers can stream the entire pilot episode, which premiered September 22 to record ratings for UPN, directly from Google.
Everybody Hates Chris is about "a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980's." The show is narrated by comedian Chris Rock and airs Thursdays at 8pm. "This is the first time Google users can watch an episode of a brand new television show on Google Video," said Susan Wojcicki, vice president of Product Management at Google.
I hate UPN, because I can't get it. In my whole life I've seen a total of maybe six episodes of Voyager, all from the first season. I've never seen Enterprise at all.
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|They're on just about every channel now. Like Spike TV and SciFi Channel.
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|maybe the season premiere of Veronica Mars will end up there too! cooool :D
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|Since they took startek off the air, I have not watched them since. And with this deal..... nope I still won't, poor shows, No startrek, no stargate, you can count me out.
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|Funny show.
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|This is a fantastic idea, though not unprecidented (UPN made all the first season of Dilbert available online as well, for all the good it did).
UPN has a great opportunity here. They've got a show with huge critical buzz and a good audience already. This should help get the ball rolling.
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|Just had to bring that show up.
Did they ever release those eps on DVD?
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|Meh. The video is pixelated a bit. I would rather grab it from 'other' sources if I was going to watch this.
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|something like, EHC.s01e01.hdtv.xvid.lol.avi?
*grin*
Think I'll give Chris Rock a pass though.
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|UPN pioneering TV over the net? Who'd have thunk it.
The real trick will be to see if it includes commercials/advertising (other than googleads).
90% of the TV I watch is downloaded. I refuse to shedule my life around the few shows I actually like. Spending $40 on cable/Sat and another $200 on DVR doesn't appeal to me either.
They need a service like this, badly.
Paid w/no commercials.
Free w/Commercials.
Either way, I'd jump on it.
It'd be interesting to see how they set it up...just download, a specific client to download certain shows at certain times, etc...
C'mon, google...ya know you wanna give me this!
GoogleTV, here we come.
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|I don't think WebTV will ever be free, as you will have you have to pay for cable to see the shows in the first place.
So what will happen is, you will subscribe to "internet cable" or "normal cable" both would have commercials to help make it worth awhile. They be provided by your cable service ( its what I would do ) so they can localized the commercials. Then of course you could pay for the service without commercials.
This is of course what I would do if I was a cable provider. I would allow people to login to their account and download the shows the same night they aired. They would be encrypted to work similar to itunes or napaster. Of course it would be automatic and would happen minutes after the aired showed was over.
You still would have people who would "break the encryption" or "record' the show.
But at least I would be getting paid for what million people do the providing to those shows? I am not losing money if people download the show, because they view the news.
Of course the number one thing, this would do is, allow internet viewing to be part of the network ratings. Just on a different level, where popular shows that might be on at the sametime, can tellt he producers ( hey I like your show but I just can't decided ).
I mean the shows are already in digital format, it would take almost no effort to make them into a format where we can use them, if you don't think they are in digital format then your crazy.
The networks are run by a computer, or a machine, that goes to the next show/commercials and they are broken down into 2/4/6/8/24 sections. Clearly a person makes each one. Of course I am not in that field and thats just my understanding.
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|???
I don't know if WebTV is a service that exists that you may have thought I was talking about, but....
I wasn't.
I was talking about a theoretical new service that would allow people who don't want to be tied to a cable/on-air schedule to simply download the show they want to watch, when they want to watch them. All this would require would be an internet connection...cable/DSL/Sat/dial-up.
Monthly service charge would probably be the most likely...like a subscription fee to netflix, only for TV. Paid for by advertising, while it could probably work for Google, probably wouldn't for anyone else.
It's nice to See UPN taking some strides in this direction. I'd like to see better quality , a full schedule, and a subscription service, but I'm looking too far ahead, I fear.
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