nevadamedic
07-04-2007, 08:42 PM
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New Web site offers shortened versions of vintage television
Shows include "Silver Spoons," "T.J. Hooker" and "Starsky & Hutch"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Don't think of the Minisode Network as a brand-new Web site. Think of it as a long-overdue public service.
Classic TV shows normally an hour or 30 minutes are cut down to four to six minutes on the Minisode Network.
That is, who among us hasn't felt the double-edged sword of our media age: So much video from TV, DVDs, the Internet and even cell phones ... but too little time to watch it all?
The Minisode Network has a solution.
Launched in June as a broadband channel on the MySpace site, it offers, for our streaming pleasure, episodes of vintage Sony Pictures Television series like "Silver Spoons," "Starsky & Hutch," "Diff'rent Strokes" and even Ricki Lake's talk show.
But the, um, sparkling array of programs isn't what makes the Minisode Network a cultural godsend. It's the convenient packaging: each episode has been pruned from its original half-hour or hour length down to a handy running time of somewhere between four and six minutes!
"The shows you love -- only shorter," boasts Minisode Network, which only asks us in return to watch a very short commercial before each program.
Let NBC bulk up its sitcoms with its much-hyped "super-sizing." There's no juicing at the Minisode Network
Full Story..........
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/07/03/la.minisodes.ap/index.html
That kinda takes part of the fun away from the TV shows. Has anyone used this site yet?
New Web site offers shortened versions of vintage television
Shows include "Silver Spoons," "T.J. Hooker" and "Starsky & Hutch"
NEW YORK (AP) -- Don't think of the Minisode Network as a brand-new Web site. Think of it as a long-overdue public service.
Classic TV shows normally an hour or 30 minutes are cut down to four to six minutes on the Minisode Network.
That is, who among us hasn't felt the double-edged sword of our media age: So much video from TV, DVDs, the Internet and even cell phones ... but too little time to watch it all?
The Minisode Network has a solution.
Launched in June as a broadband channel on the MySpace site, it offers, for our streaming pleasure, episodes of vintage Sony Pictures Television series like "Silver Spoons," "Starsky & Hutch," "Diff'rent Strokes" and even Ricki Lake's talk show.
But the, um, sparkling array of programs isn't what makes the Minisode Network a cultural godsend. It's the convenient packaging: each episode has been pruned from its original half-hour or hour length down to a handy running time of somewhere between four and six minutes!
"The shows you love -- only shorter," boasts Minisode Network, which only asks us in return to watch a very short commercial before each program.
Let NBC bulk up its sitcoms with its much-hyped "super-sizing." There's no juicing at the Minisode Network
Full Story..........
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/07/03/la.minisodes.ap/index.html
That kinda takes part of the fun away from the TV shows. Has anyone used this site yet?