November 15th, 2005
AOL and Time Warner to Launch In2TV Broadband Network
By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
In a recent announcement, AOL and Time Warner will be making old television shows available online on a new broadband network called In2TV in early 2006. 30 series will be made available initially including hits such as Welcome Back Kotter, Sisters, and Growing Pains.
In2TV plans to offer more than 100 TV series and at least 300 episodes per month in the first year, the companies said.
The shows will be delivered through AOL Video on Demand, AOL Video Search and AOL Television. At the time of launch, the programs will be available exclusively on AOL and will not be in syndication on TV, AOL official said.
The shows will include advertising, although it’s not certain at this point how it will be displayed. Alternatives include an ad that streams before the programming starts or ads at the traditional commercial breaks when the shows aired on television.
In2TV will offer an early test of whether consumers can be persuaded to watch longer-form programming on their computer screens. Currently, much successful Internet programming runs only a few minutes long on the theory that many viewers don’t have the patience to sit through longer shows at their desktop or laptop. Source: Yahoo
We Say: Sounds pretty cool, being able to pull up old TV shows at any time definitely has it’s appeal, and it could make available, just guessing here, older shows that aren’t syndicated. Before it’s over, everything will be available online as everyone looks to add more and more content to pull in surfers. But, will anyone watch or even care?
Bedammit says:
I think that they should move a show to In2TV before they completely cancel it. Its still a new concept and it could possibly revive itself.
BeDammit
November 15th, 2005 at 7:31 am
Jimmy says:
That is definately something to think about, maybe create a couple shows just for it, drive traffic to the new shows from people looking for the old shows.
November 15th, 2005 at 7:40 am
degustibus says:
making available online — how much? Lots of old shows are available on DVD rental — Magnum PI for example — it doesn’t take long watching these re-runs to discover that, well, they aren’t quite as good now as they were 30 years ago. Campy yes. But they have to compete with Deadwood, the OC, House MD Desperate Housewives, not to mention Sopranos, The Shield, Friends etc. So litle time, so many shows. (B-o-o-k? Wot’s that?)
meanwhile, I don’t know about anyone else, but my DSL broadand’s way too slow for downloading these things — it take me many hours to download a a rip, eg, of deep throat, classics, you know, autobiography of a flea, torrenting like mad. And all the time, other internet stuff comes to a dead standstill.
November 15th, 2005 at 8:06 am
Jimmy says:
I got the impression that it was going to be ad supported, since no subscriptin fee’s were mentioned.
November 15th, 2005 at 8:08 am
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