AOL, Warner to Bring Old TV Shows Online

Associated Press ^ | 11-14-05

[BurbankKarl]

The television audience will further disintegrate.

I watched a Live Keith Urban Concert tonight on AOL Music...and then spent an hour watching other videos they have. Sometimes a funny 15 second commercial pops up....but not as annoying as watching TV.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

If they have "Star Trek" the original "Battlestar Galactica" and "The Incredible Hulk," I may never leave my computer again!

[sageb1]

Who cares comes to mind.

[freedomlover]

Ill believe it when I see Amos N' Andy.

[martin_fierro]

AOL, Warner to Bring Old TV Shows Online

Hot diggity dog!

[Old Seadog]

[Tall_Texan]

This will be challenging since AOL is essentially "Computing For Dummies".

If people weren't interested in long-format video on their PCs and laptops, they wouldn't have DVD drives built into them. The questions are 1) what programming do they want to see? 2) how much are they willing to pay? 3) how do they copy-protect it to reduce the number of pirated copies going around?

[Covenantor]

Crusader Rabbit with Rags the Tiger!
And then the original GUI monitor program, 'Winky Dink and You'

[Covenantor]

[nopardons]

You can buy ALL of the old AMOS AND ANDY shows on tape. :-)

[nopardons]

On DVDs too, :-)

[BigSkyFreeper]

I've seen the Amos & Andy DVD's in the overstock bin at the local Wal-Mart. :)

[PAR35]

3) how do they copy-protect it to reduce the number of pirated copies going around?

You think that there is that big of a market for pirate copies of Welcome Back Kotter?

[ONETWOONE]

And Doby Gillis....Times they are changing.

[Garry Boldwater]

Up ya noses with rubba hoses....

[Knitebane]

You think that there is that big of a market for pirate copies of Welcome Back Kotter?

Of course there are! The RIAA/MPAA told me so!

Those evil pirates are killing the industry! Why, pirating is so bad that movies like Gigli may never show a profit.

Every day, millions of eye-patch wearin', peg-legged people steal money right out the mouths of poor, hardworking people like Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Michael Moore.

We need to take away your ability to make a backup copy of a DVD to ensure that those poor people can afford their limousines and mansions.

DRM forevah!

[TomGuy]

Maybe the television industry is finally waking up to the potential of the Internet.

WB put the first epi of Supernatural, a new program this season, online for full, free download a couple of weeks before the series started on broadcast TV.

Many old movies and series have become public domain. There are now several websites dedicated to their downloads. These are legal downloads because their copyright restrictions have expired.

These are reasons why judges need to study technology (such as p2p) before they render their decisions. P2P can deliver completely legal digital files, movies, music, etc. When a judge rules against the p2p technology, that judge does not understand the capabilities of technology.

NBC might put some of their programs online, but, as Jay Leno quipped, no body watches them for free on broadcast anyway, so who's going to pay $1.99 to watch them?

[Wonder Warthog]

Why bother? You can get'em all on Netflix already.

[PAR35]

The most effective DRM would be pricing to market. Most folks would probably pay a slight premimum for high quality, safe, convenient, and legal digital downloads or disks. (Apple's experience suggests that this is true).

Of course, in the case of Sony, using pirated content is a matter of self preservation, since their material can't be trusted.