This is the very funning video to anyone who has done tech support for anything.
A comedy about medieval tech support, learning how to use a book. It’s from a show called Øystein & Meg (Øystein & I) produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting television channel (NRK) in 2001. The spoken language is Norwegian, the subs in Danish. It’s written by Knut Nærum and performed by Øystein Bache and Rune Gokstad.
So you have a high speed interent connection and you have TiVo, but you do NOT have the show you want to watch, what do you do? Easy goto amazon.com and head off to the amazon unbox and download what you want and kick back and watch it on not on your PC but on your big screen.
Amazon.com, the online retail giant, and TiVo, pioneer of the digital video recorder, are teaming up to help downloaded movies and TV shows make the leap to television screens.
In a deal expected to be announced Wednesday, Amazon and TiVo will allow TiVo owners who shop on Amazon’s digital download store, called Amazon Unbox, to send films and TV shows to their broadband-connected TiVo machines, and pause and fast-forward through them as they do a regular TV program.
There is no additional charge for the service, which is called Amazon Unbox on TiVo. The service will not work for satellite or cable TV subscribers whose set-top boxes run TiVo software.
Executives at Amazon and TiVo said bypassing the PC would open the digital download market to a more mainstream audience.
The live action Transformers movie is coming this July and thanks to my girlfriend you can see the trailers on Yahoo Movies!
You can watch the trailer in Windows Media, Quicktime and they are also in HD.
Are you ready? Could you “cut” the cable or knock down your dish and rely on the Internet for all of your watching?
It was the ultimate challenge for any lifelong TV watcher. Wired News asked me to cut the coax cable snaking into my HD-ready television, and for 30 days rely solely on legally available internet content to satisfy the video entertainment needs of my family of five.
We posed the question: Is the internet finally ready to kill old-school television?
The rules were simple: Anything I could download was fair game, but there’d be no TV signal via cable, satellite or the airwaves. We decided that watching television that had been cached on the family’s TiVo box was also cheating, so that went into the closet. At my editor’s insistence, I physically severed the cable between the wall and my television with wire clippers. And on a blustery November day, my cable company came and took my set-top box away.
When I’m Yawning
Music Video Channel Winner. Thirsty Mc. Worst fantasizes about the milkman’s wife. Composed completely of 35mm photographs, this video will excite you, disturb you, and blow you away.
Here is what some guy in Wales did and posted his crime on YouTube. What is funny is some of the comments!
Helpful hint: If you commit a crime, don’t post it on YouTube
October 27, 2006 7:27 AM PDT
As an 18-year-old from Wales soon learned, posting YouTube prank videos that contain criminal activity can get you arrested. In this case, it was stealing a pair of glasses off a charity worker in the street. The theft was reported, and somehow the cops managed to find the video evidence on YouTube.
This is by no means the first time that goofy online postings have led to unexpected arrests. Remember “Smokey McBlunt”? He’s the North Carolina resident who posted photos of his illegal pet snake on his MySpace profile back in August; thanks to eagle-eyed neighbors and intervention from animal control authorities, “Smokey” is now snakeless.
Thanks to Fark.com for the heads-up on the Welsh YouTube glasses thief.
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
Helpful hint: If you commit a crime, don’t post it on YouTube
YouTube criminals
Reader post by: Zeist
Posted on: October 27, 2006, 8:34 AM PDT
Story: Helpful hint: If you commit a crime, don’t post it on YouTubeI don’t appreciate you telling criminals to not post their crimes to online video carriers. I want all criminals to be proud of their works and proclaim their deeds loudly across the internet, brag to friends, and telephone police to tell them of their exploits. This would make it much easier to get them off the streets, collect fines and rehab them. Hopefully fewer crimes will be committed and the rest of us can live in peace.
He speaks truth
Reader post by: adot44
Posted on: October 27, 2006, 11:31 AM PDT
Story: Helpful hint: If you commit a crime, don’t post it on YouTubeI wholeheartedly agree with Zeist. This kind of thing makes for a good laugh, but also serves to educate potential/actual criminals. Akin to televised criminal investigations (which I despise) that illuminate the criminals’ (proper use of plural possesive case) weaknesses, mistakes and areas of stupidity, thereby making it harder to use those same mistakes to catch other criminals. I have heard numerous criminal confessions where the criminals were educated by CSI and the like, as well as nonfictional investigations by groups like “Dateline”. I think we should forego the entertainment in order to exploit human criminal stupidity.
Is there such a thing, TV for all? I mean most people are regulated to having only the TV channels that their local cable company has to offer. If you choose satellite, well it is what ever Dish Network and DirecTV has in the form of a programming package.
What if I want to watch the BBC from the U.K to catch the latest Doctor Who rerun that is not even in the U.S or watch the latest Blue Peter and East Enders on BBC1? What can I do, will nothing really I mean BBC America tries but is not the same.
But not is all lost, there is the next new thing out there called TVUPlayer from TVUNetworks. The question is how long this last will; we all know what happened to Napster.
The thing is that “those people” who all hung up on copyright violations, do not realize that this is an untapped distribution market that the content creators do have to “wheel and deal” to get.
There biggest issues are money or the lack of revenue from this new thing. They should work a deal for revenue share for advertising inside the playing application. Or leverage short commercial segments that are 10 to 15 seconds long rather than the traditional 30 seconds.
There are many ways to make money but the “old school” methods do not work as well in the digital age. What do you think makes Apple and iTunes so successful? They created a new revenue model in the music business that fits with technology.
TVUPlayer transmits TV shows, including pay-for-view broadcasts, from U.S. and international broadcasters such as ABC, HBO, the Disney Channel, The Comedy Channel, Al Jazeera and Telecapri Sports of Italy.
It’s easy to see why it’s becoming popular: In addition to a big selection, the TVUPlayer’s pictures are usually clearer than the choppy and grainy images that often mark streaming video. Viewers can’t upload their own videos.
The TVUPlayer appears to have gained attention in the United States following the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament in Germany. Thousands of soccer fans downloaded the software in order to watch matches not available on U.S. stations.
More importantly, TVU Networks has made watching online programming as easy watching a TV. After downloading the TVUPlayer, a menu appears with anywhere from 40 to 50 channels. Among the available channels available on Friday were Comedy Central, Animal Planet and the CNBC broadcast in India.
“Consumers will be able to watch free live channels from around the globe, as well as subscribe to pay channels and pay-per-view events,” said a statement on TYUNetworks.com, the company’s Web site. “TVU Networks brings you programs from around the world that you can’t get from your local cable and satellite providers.”