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    Mark Glaser
  • 14 years ago
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What TV shows would you watch on your computer?

The worlds of TV and the Internet are colliding once more, but unlike in the late ’90s, now they have a chance for a peanut butter/chocolate sweet match. Back then, WebTV was a failed experiment at getting people to web surf on their TV sets, while online TV or movies looked horrible on computers with slow Internet connections. But now with broadband becoming more widespread, TV networks have been pushing more content to the Net. ABC started selling episodes of hit shows on iTunes, and streaming shows on its own site. CBS recently announced it would stream shows online in the fall, and would stream the new “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” simultaneously online while it plays on TV. But is this something you really want? Do you watch TV shows on your computer — when and why? And which shows do you watch on the computer? Would you rather pay for these shows or watch commercials? Share your thoughts in the comments below, and I’ll post the best ones in next week’s Your Take Roundup.

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Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • I tried to download the Frontline show called "Living Elderly". It would not finish downloading. It also woud not play the sound. I have a macpro. I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing to get the program to work. Do you have to be a member? Do you have to "burn" it onto a disc?

  • It should be shown for free, without commercials. Why, most talk shows are only that; talk. More talk without content or pertinent infomation is being generated every day without accomplishment or productivity. Heck, it's rarely entertaining to listen to much less watch. Although site like this are a bit different. It was the short sited over-reaction of our nation to 911 that cause our adversarial party system to fall into a concenses that has proven disasterous.
    Healthy debate, and our adversarial nature trim the fat, sharpens our minds and reflexes. 911 will forever be a victory for terrorism as long as we as a nation continue to use poor judgement as a result.

  • Hello,

    My name is Sabrina Djouder, a senior year student majoring in Marketing Business living in Paris in France. I write to you because I am writing my thesis about the The new status of TV shows versus Blockbusters.
    As you know, there is an increasing rate of very good TV shows such as Prison Break, Sopranos etc recently.
    Those TV shows are turning into not only an entertainment but also a certain reflection about the societies whether blockbusters recently with Superman etc have seen their scripts very stereotyped and not very creative.
    I am looking for some professional views about this trend and I was thinking we could set up a phone interview.Of course, for the moment you could reach me by email sabrina_djouder@yahoo.fr

    Sincerely,

    Sabrina

  • Personally, to me the best part about watching TV series online is the ability to catch up with the TV series so I can watch it on TV and know what has happened in the past.

    I could ofcource buy the DVD, but buying 4-5 seasons is too expensive to even concider. Personally I hope there will be a site that has short commercials inbetween the series. Like on real TV. As long as they restrict them.

  • I just love to see TV on my pc, but the sad true is most of them are not working like they promise, i spent more that 200$ to check them all, and i found that the best one is internet tv and satellite from http://www.vipdeals.info/products/STV

    Because it lets you add your own channels, see pay per view channels for free, and more good and helpful options, so i recommend people not to get burned like me, don't spend your money for nothing, this one is working with almost every computer, It worked even on my laptop, and i have a very old laptop.

    Hope this helps:)

    Mike G

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