March 31, 2008
Mind Vacations
What you want to watch, when you want to watch it
Since the inception of the box, scheduling has played a significant role in the success or failure of television programming. If you are hungry for something to watch, you click around until you find something you want to watch or settle for watching something that is “on.”
Here comes the future. Fancast.com is a venture by behemoth Comcast that offers, at this writing, over 200 television series. Each episode of which can be viewed whenever you choose to view it. I guess this is good news—with no limits on when you watch, the quality of what you are willing to spend time watching should be raised. Maybe. I'm guessing there will still be people who will watch Doogie Howser, M.D. on purpose.
Now, an OFFICIAL DISCLAIMER: don't blame Chuck Green if you get canned for watching reruns at your desk—I warn you, there are fifty episodes of the Twilight Zone on this thing.
The current fancast.com menu...
This is also happening on hulu.com...
In the Ideabook Design Store: Before & After: Graphics For Business...
Comments
Chuck,
Just wanted to thank you for the kind words about fancast.com - it is an amazing tool for sorting out all the online entertainment options available these days. If you like classic sci-fi, in addition to Twilight Zone, there are 79 (!) full length episodes of Star Trek, as well as BSG - and even Galactica 1980, which is a trip to see, up on the site. Note also, fancast has free movies too (I just watched Me, Myself and Irene, one of Jim Carrey's best IMHO.)
- Jim
Posted by: fancastfan | April 1, 2008 5:13 PM