Posts Tagged Weeds

Yikes: Hulu flirts with, yes, having you pay to watch it.

Posted by on Friday, 23 October, 2009

rubbish

Hey, remember Hulu.com? It was a Web site that sort of came out of nowhere, and offered streaming TV shows from NBC and other networks. It was ad-supported, and free. People liked it. And then, one day, in October, 2009, a completely bonkers TV executive all but killed it with one sentence: “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.”

Those are the words of News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey, uttered at some sort of broadcasters pow wow.

The idea that News Corp. (and the other broadcast execs) expects to be paid for something that travels through the air 100 percent freely, and has for decades is, that’s right, ludicrous. And I’m referring only to broadcast content here. Shows like The Office and The Simpsons, and not Curb Your Enthusiasm or Weeds. Ads pay for the broadcast shows, and that anyone expects us to pay for those shows again! Ha!

It’s like this: Hulu already runs ads. I’m not gonna pay for access to the site when there’s already ads on there.

Never mind the fact that people only put up with the ads because the site is a convenience. “Sure, I’ll put up with a few ads so long as I can watch 30 Rock in between CrunchGear posts.” Otherwise, yeah, I’ll head right back to alt.binaries.multimedia and start downloading away. No ads there, and in 720p!

I mean, was I stealing all those Seinfeld reruns or 24 (aka the Jack Bauer Power Hour) when I had an HDTV antenna hooked up to my TV? I don’t recall paying to watch those shows; that’s what the ads were for!

In essence, charging for Hulu is a one-way to Irrelevant Town. I don’t care either way, seeing as thought I really haven’t watched TV for several years now (outside of live sports).



HBO, Cinemax coming to Comcast’s and Time Warner’s TV Everywhere plans

Posted by on Monday, 13 July, 2009

fancast_logo_tmI have to be honest. I didn’t think much of the TV Everywhere plans laid out by Comcast and Time Warner last month, but the service sure has my attention now. Soon – like in a few weeks – 5,000 beta testers will be able to watch TBS, TNT, Stars, HBO, and Cinemax content on Fancast.com or Comcast.net along with the content already available from ABC, NBC, FX, and more. Eventually, the plan is to open the service up to all subscribers of Comcast and Time Warner for “no additional cost.”

We still have questions about the authentication system and if the service will have an open API that will allow developers to build it into streaming software PlayOn or Boxee. Those details will probably drop later, but if Comcast can continue to add premium content online from the big names, they might be onto something. Now, how about Showtime for some Californication and Weeds action.



Pc Scan Sweep-How To Do A Pc Scan Sweep

Posted by on Tuesday, 7 July, 2009

Spyware is like weeds in your garden or flowers and you cannot expect a lot from them apart from that they are not good for your garden, same is the case with viruses that affect your computer and pc scan sweep is one way that can help you with this problem.

Upon completion of the disclosure process and the tool displays a report describing the results, including where appropriate, spyware were detected and you are asked before the move. Some ways to detect spyware are that computer performance is slow when opening programs or saving files from unwanted pop-up, the homepage of the browser is often diverted, frequent changes in the browser; it displays random messages and reporting error or new and unexpected things in your browser.

After all, if things are always the same while visiting online and visiting different websites and on top receiving emails with infected attachments from your friends and family, you cannot do much to resist them and live without opening it and eventually ending up with a virus that affects your computer in many ways.

The first thing you can do to start with sorting your computer is to defrag your system and see if it has some improvements or is it still slow. This can be done easily by going to start menu and select accessories from it, in that you will have an option of system tools click on that with other options you will find disk defrag option in it.

Save big and tends to decrease the ease of corruption and fragmented. In addition it damages the slow deterioration of the results affect your computer, the computer generates a number of errors and a major force behind the repeated incidents and the freezing of the system and a pc scan sweep proves to be useful in such a situation.

To avoid this situation and overcome the problems of slow equipment needed to clear the Windows registry to remove all debris and unwanted side that had accumulated in it. The best and easiest way to change your registration data, with the help of pc sweep scan is desirable and to recover your computer with Windows and its performance for the use of a computer in an effective and reliable form.

If you lack knowledge in the related field and think it is effecting your daily life at work or home you can always ask an expert for help, if not try searching online for better ways to speed up your computer without the ne dot replace it.

There are several tools available to repair your PC on the Internet and Spyzooka is one of the useful to learn more about Pc Scan Sweep and other tools that help you to maintain your computer,