AOL: “We’restill relevent”
Dozens of old television shows, including Welcome Back Kotter, will be available online and free of charge under a deal between America Online and Warner Bros., the companies said.
In the latest alternative to traditional TV viewing, a new broadband network, called In2TV, will be launched in early 2006 by AOL(link) and Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution. (full article)
I think if they are going to give it away they could offer it as a torrent. Thats just me.
Update
Betanews has more on this story
But unlike Apple’s approach of charging $2, TV shows from AOL(link) will be free and rely on customers’ bandwidth for distribution. To make this happen, AOL(link) has partnered with Kontiki, a peer-to-peer video on-demand platform that runs in the background as an Internet Explorer plug-in.
AOL(link) Hi-Q is based on the Kontiki technology and promises DVD-quality full-screen playback — as long as users are connected to the Internet and sharing videos they have downloaded. Because the new format is based on Windows Media Video with a Kontiki P2P wrapper, only Windows XP and IE6 are supported at this time.
So they are using a P2P of sorts that does share band width but can I play it on my TV?
