Logorama
This short film won an Oscar last year, and it’s pretty fabulous. You can watch it in its entirety right here:
Thanks to Jason Kottke for sharing.
A Conversation on Streaming Media
The most recent episode of The Conversation, a podcast about tech and development news, delves deeply into the world of streaming content. Host Dan Benjamin interviews Dave Nanian of Shirt Pocket, and discusses the new Apple TV, Roku, and the downloadable TV industry as a whole.
Better yet, there’s a video version of the podcast on the 5 by 5 website, meaning you can watch streaming video about streaming video. Woah…. meta.
How To Stream Web Videos With Tivo
So by now we’ve all figured out how to stream Netflix movies through Tivos, Xboxes, or other devices. But what about harder-to-find web content? It’s fairly easy to stream web content straight through your Tivo. To do so:
- From the TiVo Central screen, select “Find TV, movies, & videos.”
- Select “Browse web videos.”
- Select “Video podcasts.” Then select a content category, like “Comedy” or “News,” to see a list of available titles in the chosen category.
- Select a video from the list of titles.
- Choose “Watch now” to begin watching the show, “Download this program” to send the show to My Shows, “Get a Season Pass” to receive all episodes of the show, or “Past programs” to find a show that has already aired.
And there you go…
“But, wait! I want to watch my favorite Mongolian throat-singing vlog and it’s not’s listed! What about me!?”
Well for you, lone hipster, there’s the option of manually adding the RSS feed of any video podcast and downloading your Huun-Huur-Tu videos directly.
(Instructions and image from tivo.com)
Lost
Maybe you didn’t watch it the first time around. Or maybe you just have 100 or so hours to kill between now and forever. But you’ve decided you want to watch Lost. The good news is that you actually have a few options. Hulu Plus has the entire series and Netflix Instant has the first five seasons. (Sorry, you’ll have to get the last season in the mail, at least for now. Maybe by the time you get through the first five, the final season will be available for streaming.)
But, even if you don’t subscribe to Hulu Plus or Netflix, you can still see most of the series: ABC.com (and the ABC iPad app) has the first five seasons and the last few episodes of the sixth season for free.
So, there you have it. If you watch 8 hours a day, you should be done after about two weeks (two and a half if you take the weekends off). If you do watch it, and you figure out what the hell is going on, be sure to share it with the rest of us.
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Star Trek Remastered
Netflix and Hulu aren’t the only places to watch streaming content. One of these other services is TV.com, CBS’s answer to Hulu (there is even an an iPhone app, but apparently not an iPad app, yet). It even offers videos in 1080p high-definition. That brings us to the reason for this post—Star Trek, the original series.
The franchise may have hit its stride in theaters, but it was the TV show that kicked it off (and introduced us to tribbles). As someone who was grew up with The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home (volumes III and IV, respectively), it’s interesting to watch the show and see Shatner before his Kirk became a caricature of himself.
The whole series is there on TV.com in all its remastered glory, but you’ll have to click around a bit to find and watch the episodes in order.
(For a nice list of places to watch TV shows online, check out this list from Mashable.)
Star Trek Remastered on TV.com
