Image via Wikipedia Hulu , the TV Web site co-owned by News Corp. (which owns Fox) and NBC Universal , has added some cool new content from Comedy Central and PBS .
Hulu users can now check out full episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Cable companies and other pay-TV providers reportedly tried to prevent Viacom (which owns Comedy Central) from making such highly-rated shows free online. The cable companies have to pay for Comedy Central programming (and they, in turn charge their customers for it) so they thought it was unfair for Viacom to give it away elsewhere.
As for the PBS shows, the NY Times notes that ads precede all the programs that now air on Hulu: "Nova," "Wired Science," "Carrier" and "Scientific American Frontiers."
Hulu will place a 30-second advertisement before each program, splitting the revenue with PBS. Andrew Russell, the senior vice president who runs PBS Ventures, the network&rsquo...
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The Best of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Produced by Tom Synder and Jonathan Katz
Studio: Paramount/Comedy Central
Year: 2008
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1/1.66:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
Rating: NR
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 mono English... more
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It’s incredibly easy.
Plug it in. Connect one cord to your TV. Turn it on. It finds your WiFi, asks for your password and connects to Netflix central.
You log into your Netflix account, activate the Roku box and start choosing among 10,000 videos.
It takes less than a minute from the time you select the video till the time it starts playing.
Better still, the TOTAL time that elapsed between me taking knife to the box it came in and watching the opening credits of "Lock, ... more
Every now and then, I’ll read a glowing review of a new TV show and think, "I should record that series and take a look." Unfortunately, I almost never remember to do it (or I’m just too lazy) so I rarely watch anything but sports and reruns of "Cheers."
I wouldn’t have this problem, however, if I lived in Chicago and subscribed to TiVo’s DVR service.
This week, TiVo announced a new service available for free to about 100,000 customers in the Chicago area. ... more
The scene outside before last January’s Macworld keynote. Photo by Jim Rossman
OK, All you iPhone lovers out there...I’m going to be attending the Apple World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco and I will be blogging from the keynote address where Steve Jobs is widely expected to introduce the new iPhone.
So, Monday June 9, at noon Dallas time you can read it as it happens right here.
I’ll be reposting this throughout the next week.
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But, as the survey authors note , 13 percent of men and 13 percent of those under the age of 30 said they’re "comfortable reading books in other formats, such as online or with an e-book reader or PDA."
I’m not sure whether there’s any kind of trend here, since it seems to be the first time this survey was conducted, but I’d be surprised if e-books ever become more than a niche product until the hardware is dramatically improved.
The Kindle seems decent, but ... more
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