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Oct. 11th, 2006 10:59 amSurprised the roommat with cupcakes for her birthday. Glad she liked 'em, 'cause I needed the excuse to eat the batter...
( Also, I watched the BSG webisodes (spoilers throgh the season premiere) )
I rewatched Monday's Heroes online to catch the part I missed. Okay, so, I get what happened to Matt, I think. What I really enjoyed was NBC's putting the latest episode online for me to watch. The networks have cottoned onto this, and I think they're doing it extremely well, what with replaying old episodes. They know that they can't blackmail an audience into sitting at the TV when they schedule things--not with TiVO and DVRs and bit torrents and iTunes video--so they're making allowances. Not much, granted, but some. If you're out of town for three weeks, well, you're shit out of luck, but if you need a night off to go, I dunno, have a life or some crap like that, you can. They break it up pretty fairly, too, and smartly add ads to the thing that are less awful, really, than watching the TV broadcast. The one-hour show I watched was broken into five parts, each starting with a thirty-second clip for something (an NBC show, a movie, a car commercial). That makes for less than three minutes of commercials, which is fantastic considering you spend that much time or longer waiting for the show to come back on for each commericial break during the broadcast. So, NBC still makes an advertising buck (Poll: Do you think they make more for those spots because they're exclusive and can't be skipped like ones on TV or do the ones on TV earn them more? Do it per second, of course, because longer commericials, duh, cost the advertisers more), and I still get to watch my show.
If not for the tiny screen, poor resolution, long wait, skippy playback, and my inability to tame my need for instant gratification, I would watch all the shows this way. ABC does it, too, so I'll catch LOST after I get back from celebrating the roommate's birthday. It's nice not to have to worry about taping stuff. LOST will be online and Project Runway will be rerunning well into next week's finale. I seriously catch nothing but Project Runway reruns whenever I turn on Bravo. Turned it on last night (the birthday girl did), sure enough, Project Runway. This weekend? Same thing. Two hours after a new episode airs? It's on again. Makes me wonder what they fill the gaps in programming with when there's no PR on...
( Also, I watched the BSG webisodes (spoilers throgh the season premiere) )
I rewatched Monday's Heroes online to catch the part I missed. Okay, so, I get what happened to Matt, I think. What I really enjoyed was NBC's putting the latest episode online for me to watch. The networks have cottoned onto this, and I think they're doing it extremely well, what with replaying old episodes. They know that they can't blackmail an audience into sitting at the TV when they schedule things--not with TiVO and DVRs and bit torrents and iTunes video--so they're making allowances. Not much, granted, but some. If you're out of town for three weeks, well, you're shit out of luck, but if you need a night off to go, I dunno, have a life or some crap like that, you can. They break it up pretty fairly, too, and smartly add ads to the thing that are less awful, really, than watching the TV broadcast. The one-hour show I watched was broken into five parts, each starting with a thirty-second clip for something (an NBC show, a movie, a car commercial). That makes for less than three minutes of commercials, which is fantastic considering you spend that much time or longer waiting for the show to come back on for each commericial break during the broadcast. So, NBC still makes an advertising buck (Poll: Do you think they make more for those spots because they're exclusive and can't be skipped like ones on TV or do the ones on TV earn them more? Do it per second, of course, because longer commericials, duh, cost the advertisers more), and I still get to watch my show.
If not for the tiny screen, poor resolution, long wait, skippy playback, and my inability to tame my need for instant gratification, I would watch all the shows this way. ABC does it, too, so I'll catch LOST after I get back from celebrating the roommate's birthday. It's nice not to have to worry about taping stuff. LOST will be online and Project Runway will be rerunning well into next week's finale. I seriously catch nothing but Project Runway reruns whenever I turn on Bravo. Turned it on last night (the birthday girl did), sure enough, Project Runway. This weekend? Same thing. Two hours after a new episode airs? It's on again. Makes me wonder what they fill the gaps in programming with when there's no PR on...
