peer2peer file transfer via dead drops

Then, one bright spark had the idea of automating the local file-transfer process. ‘Cause who wanted to batch up their viewings, when they could be getting the latest eps hours after screening, without having to wait for John-Bob Smith to rock up from Springvale with the latest ep of Lost. This bright spark, in one […]

..Disney puts hit TV programmes online for free..

from PhysOrg Disney puts hit TV programmes online for free The Disney-owned US television network ABC will put full-length episodes of the saucy soap “Desperate Housewives,” the thriller “Lost,” the spy show “Alias” and the presidential drama “Commander In Chief” online for two months in May and June. Web surfers using a broadband internet connection […]

Slate article on future of “tv”

It has now been 20 days since Apple announced it would sell selected ABC-Disney television programs via iTunes. As of Monday, iTunes customers had bought more than than 1 million videos. At first glance, these sales figures seem like another nail in the coffin of broadcast television. If we can get television content online, on demand, whenever we want it, how will networks convince us to tune in on their schedules? For that matter, how can they be certain we’ll tune in at all?

more on Yahoo!’s plans for TV on da Web

It’s Not TV, It’s Yahoo – New York Times There will be elaborate attention-grabbing events and video-heavy programs in nearly every category of content Yahoo offers, from sports to health. The first is called “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone,” an audio-video-photo-blog-chat room, run by Mr. Sites, an experienced foreign correspondent, who plans to visit […]

Google TV is here

This is so freaking cool. Google have beaten everyone else to the game and will be releasing their own IP TV. I’m guessing this is what all the secret, 1337 only, meetings have been about lately. Obviously, someone’s talked though: Watch shows through Google TV | This is Money Watch shows through Google TV Mark […]

The Scene continues to stir things up in The Scene

p2pnet.net – the original daily p2p and digital media news site p2pnet.net News Feature:- A good conspiracy story is always guaranteed to get people going and we’ve been getting emails for quite a few days, now, on the real or imagined connection between Jun Group’s The Scene online movie series, and Operation Site Down, the […]

sounds like BBC's Creative Archive project is dying in the ass..

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Ben Hammersley: A moral imperative But it has run into a snag. Two, actually. The first is that the existing BBC archive is full of footage where the BBC does not own the right to reuse it in this way, or where no one knows to whom the rights belong. […]

coming soon.. Nerd TV..

PBS | I, Cringely . July 7, 2005 – Pod Person NerdTV is pretty much as I described it back in 2002: a downloadable video show that features long-form interviews with notable nerds. I was definitely ahead of the curve with that download feature. What has changed about the show is just the episode length, […]

John Rogers elaborates his theory of "4th Generation Media"

freaking read it now… its such an instant classic its going straight here too

John Rogers elaborates his theory of “4th Generation Media”