Internet TV - The Best And Worst Places To Go. - 
by madeyoulaugh
The revolution will not be televised, well not exclusively.
The revolution will have a limited run on a cable network then if the ratings are high enough it will have a second window on the network sister station of said cable network. Then the revolution which was televised will be now be available on iTunes for $1.99, but now that iTunes and iPods code has been cracked the revolution will find its way on YouTube which you'll learn about when Tila Tequila sends out a Myspace bulletin linking to it from her page. Of course the networks will have the revolution taken down from Youtube and put a two minute replay of it on their own website filled with Ford ads, cause lets face it, what's a revolution without a solid advertisement for a nice American made car. Eventually, the full revolution which was once televised, then sold, then stolen, then re-owned scaled to 120 seconds filled with ads, will eventually find its way to a full length webovision.
What the hell am I talking about? It's happening. Not only does primetime no longer start at 8/7central and end at 11/10 central, but its doesn't have to be confined to the tiny little box of yesteryear that only takes up 72" flat panel inches of your wall. Now you can watch it on the sexy and magestic 13" you stare at while the boss is in a meeting.
Find my network reviews and rankings of the best and worst places to watch TV online, after the jump.
#6) - Don't even bother. They haven't yet gotten around to figuring out what people want to see. The CW video page is filled with commercials for their shows and "previously on" clips from the top of new episodes. If you take the time to visit specific shows pages, you may find a minute or two of a new episode, but no complete shows and nothing really of interest unless the rest of the internet simultaneously crashes and you are left with working on your TPS report, or watching exclusive interviews with the cast of ALL OF US. Even then, seriously, those TPS reports need to get done. Not worth visiting, and hardly worth mentioning, but it is one of the networks so I felt compelled.
#5) - For free online television viewing, NBC has a long ways to go. Finding a video you want to see on their site isn't terribly easy. Once you think you have found the video you want, your stuck watching the 2 minute replay, which someone at NBC new media has people convinced is something viewers would actually want to watch. The 2 minute replays are a total waste and serve no point. For an hour long drama, it doesn't tell enough of what happens to be worth watching when you can get it all in 30 seconds on the "previously on" section when the show airs the following week, and who needs a 2 minutes replay of 20 Good Years? The 30 minute "play" is bad enough, a 2 minute replay is like reopening a paper cut just because. Obviously NBC is trying to point people to iTunes and pay the $1.99 to watch a show. I swore I would never pay for free TV, until I missed a few episodes of The Office and had jury duty this week and figured 6 bucks and my video ipod will save me a aboiut 66 minutes of boredom. It was incredibly easy to download from iTunes, very easy to watch.....but not sure why I want to pay money for an NBC show when the other networks will give it for free. Portability? NBC has much to learn.
#4) - While not one of the top four, MTV.com is worth mentioning because they are soooo close to doing cool things. They recently redesigned their page so the OVERDRIVE stuff (their made for internet online programming) immediately pops up and you no longer need to dig through tons of pages to find it. Unfortunately, MTV.com is so riddled with Ads and too much stuff on their main page even running a brand new computer (both my macbook and my new PC) the page stalls, stutters and takes forever to load. Then once everything does load, there are pop ups banner ads, talking ads, its like times square only not fun. I remember last season they had full episodes of The Real World online, I can't find those anymore. All I could find with 5 or so minutes of searching were the Aftershows hosted by Blair and a few other silly made for internet shows. I'd watch them if they weren't so ad filled. Suggestion to MTV, put less on the main page configure an easily navigatable video page and ease up on the ads, seriously. I get you need to sell ad space, but maybe you can sell ads that don't talk or sing while I'm trying to watch your original online programming. You're sooooo close to having a cool site, just chillax with the ads a little. You're MTV not QVC.
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