Netflix has announced that it will be teaming with ABC to bring seasons of certain top shows to it’s streaming video service. According to the agreement, Netflix will be streaming the seasons of Lost (1-5), Desperate Housewives (seasons 4 and 5), The Legend of the Seeker (seasons 1 and 2), Grey’s Anatomy (season 5). They will be available through Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” streaming service. Netflix already streams Disney programs like Hannah Montana and The Wizards of Waverly Place. This is a very interesting time to watch how streaming video is now taking over the forefront of online rental services like Netflix. With this announcement Netflix wil now be working with ABC, CBS and NBC to stream HD content to it’s subscribers. Will this be the future of the tv industry?
Posts Tagged ‘online’
Netflix and ABC streaming content
The True List pt. III
Yup, that’s right. It’s time for another list! You guys asked for one… oh wait you didn’t?
huh, well here it is anyway:
The Top 10 B-Movies of All Time
(Now before I begin this one let me explain why I enjoy b-movies, not all of them are “bad” and not all of them are “bad without knowing.” A lot of the time, these movies show true effort within a given budget. Sometimes it’s the process of working within that budget that creates the “bad” in the movie. So for me, I enjoy the effort put into these movies to see just how well the director utilized the means that was given to them. Read the rest of this entry »
Blip.tv is on the move!
Advertising Age has a very interesting story about what could become the future of the typical TV network. Just announcing a host of new distribution deals, blip.tv will now be working with YouTube, NBC, the Roku set-top box and Vimeo to create the widest online sharing distribution that currently exists. Blip.tv already works with Verizon Fios, web-connected Sony TVs, Apple’s iTunes, AOL, MSN, Facebook and Myspace. They also announced that YouTube would be sharing analytics with them, in turn given them the chance to feed into ComScore. The whole process will result in creating more accurate metrics for potential advertisers.
This is big news for the future of online video and blip.tv fans. Already the site has over 48,000 exclusive web shows, and this will help blip.tv use their niche market web shows to aim advertisements to the right demographic. Blip.tv is well on it’s way to becoming it’s own TV network, giving viewers the option of choosing exactly what they want to see.
it’s Time to Study!
I’ve often been asked what my opinion is on the best material to look at critically when learning about video. So I thought that I’d pose the question to all of you out there & see what you guys think? For myself, the best possible video to learn from are commercials. They are direct, tell the story in a very short amount of time and are the best example of the “shoot to edit” technique. Of course thats just my opinion, but commercials are out there to capture every type of audience. So there are many different types of ads that are done in so many different ways that it’s impossible not to find the answers to at least some of your video questions by watching them critically. What do you guys think? What has helped you learn the most about video?
Recent Comments