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Its about time the come up with such a business model, now they need to do the same with the rest of the TV shows and even movies WITHOUT asking you for money like the two dollar ripoff for iPOD. I can live with advertising like this.
Watch old TV on the Internet. For Free.
(note bolding above)"We looked at the rise of broadband on Internet and said, 'Let's try to be the first to create a network that opens a new window of distribution for us rather than having to go hat in hand to a USA or a Nick at Night or a TBS,' " Mr. Frankel said.
that's why i keep a popup blocker .How cool is that, they are gonna make their own dedicated peer-peer filesharing network for it. I wonder why they don't just use bittorrentFor those who want to watch on a big screen, AOL is introducing optional technology that it says will produce a DVD-quality picture. Even with a broadband connection, most Internet video looks grainy at full width on a computer monitor, let alone a big TV set. The new option, called AOL Hi-Q, will require the downloading once of special software, and the program may not start for several minutes, depending on the speed of the users' connection.
There is a catch. To use the technology, viewers will have to agree to participate in a special file-sharing network. This approach helps AOL reduce the cost of distributing-high quality video files by passing portions of the video files from one user's computer to another. AOL says that since it will control the network, it can protect users from the sorts of viruses and spyware that infect other peer-to-peer systems.
AOL is using file-sharing technology from Kontiki, a Silicon Valley company providing a similar system to the ambitious Internet video program of the BBC.
, since we've all been using it for years to do the exact same thing.I'd like to say that i think this whole thing will be cool. But i know better than to expect any form of SANITY outof Media-Conglomerates when it comes to anything involving the internet.