Anthony Ko

Max and Logan on boingboing tv...

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for those that missed it,
the randy pausch talk is available on
google video,
and windows media.

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A friend pointed me to Orb.com a few weeks ago. He had an EDGE phone that had the Windows Mobile operating system, and was able to stream video and live TVfrom his desktop at home to his phone. It took a few seconds of fussing with his mobile's web browser, but he was able to bring up a TV show he had saved on his computer. It was pretty impressive and got myself an account when I got home. The service performs even better on a computer with a broadband connection (the video display size gets readjusted based on the available bandwidth).

It is pretty easy to set up. After you register at Orb.com, you download and install their software that basically turns your computer into a server (so that means you have to leave your computer on). Then just select which directories of media to share (video, photos, audio, live TV). To access your selected media, you log on to orb.com with your web browser, click on the link you want to play, and a stream will be delivered to your device.

Orb Networks could use some minor refinements...
The user interface could use some work, movies with a separate subtitle files aren't fully supported, sharing media with your friends is a bit cumbersome, and it is only available for Microsoft platforms.

Besides its minor drawbacks, this free service is pretty freakin great. It is so far the closest thing I have found that will allow me to have persistent access to my media library (I would rather have it hosted on some server with fatter pipes, but I'm sure that's coming in the near future). With this service, I can have podcasts downloaded on my desktop, and then delivered on demand to my car through a cell phone’s audio jack. If I had a video out on my cell phone (hopefully Helio will release some), I could go to a friend's house, plug the phone into their TV, and start streaming movies without having tto haul around DVDs or a hard drive. Perhaps it is the mobile phone will conquer the living room, and in-car entertainment all at once.

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I noticed Yahoo! was hosting some streaming videos of a couple of primetime CBS shows. This is the first time I've seen a big media company put complete programs online for free (and it's the first time I have watched these shows). I hope this trend continues.

I thought I would start keeping a list of complete shows that are being streamed online (or made available for download) for on-demand viewing.

The list of shows so far of shows that are broadcast on television as well as archived online:
Nova (PBS)
Frontline (PBS)
Scientific American Frontiers (PBS)
How I Met Your Mother(CBS)
Two and a Half Men (CBS) (looks like the CBS shows were only for a limited time)
Adult swim's Friday Night Fix 11pm-6am EST (Cartoon Network)
Yahooligans TV There are a few episodes of: The Hurricanes, Super Mario Brothers Super Show, Inspector Gadget's Field Trip, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, Liberty's Kids, Legend of Zelda, Sherlock Holms in the 22nd Century, Gadget Boy's Adventures in History [Thanks for the link, Mike]
MTV Overdrive Some MTV shows are shown on their broadband channel
Cinemanow.com has free streaming movies and shows such as Dragnet, Andy Griffith show, The Jack Benny Show, and more contemporary shows such as Globe Trekker.
Internet Archive: old newsreels, cartoons. (ok, so maybe not tv shows, but still interesting)

Update (1 May 2006):
ABC is streaming episodes of Alias, Desperate Housewives, Lost, and Commander in Chief

Update (25 May 2006)
Scifi Pulse offers some full length shows and original online content.

Update (2 Aug 2006)
Here is another list.

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