CBS launches live, social, chatty video player
While watching a program you can type into a comment box to interact with other users, answer quizzes, or be obnoxious and throw virtual items including darts, hearts, and lips at the screen. Messages disappear from the screen pretty quickly, which helps keep the display from getting to cluttered. But you can click a history box to review older comments if you have a hard time keeping up.
If the whole idea sounds familiar, that's because Lycos rolled out a similar service a few months back. The Lycos Cinema player actually offers a better interface with a more traditional chat window that stays on the screen while you're typing or hovering your mouse, but disappears when you're not using it. And you can start playing Lycos movies whenever you like instead of sitting in on live streams. But Lycos Cinema's content library is populated by obscure titles and lacks mainstream fare like How I Met Your Mother.
[via TechCrunch]
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West said 5:10PM on 10-02-2008
Saw this last night when I found out that How I Met Your Mother is back on. Seems like a bad idea to me. But could be cool. Probably not.
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Bill said 8:56PM on 10-02-2008
Couple points of clarification - Lycos Cinema launched over two years ago and was revamped earlier this year. As for content, the site has an extension library of independent films but also has mainstream content such as ABC Family shows including including Wildfire, Kyle XY, Greek and most recently, Secret Life of the American Teenager, as well as classic TV episodes from The Beverly Hillbillies, Lassie, Andy Griffith and others. A couple current highlights include Michael Moore's new documentary "Slacker Uprising" and a series of live 'director's chats' with horror filmmakers during screenings of their movies happening every Tuesday in October. http://cinema.lycos.com
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Quikboy said 6:30AM on 10-03-2008
Why don't they just buddy up with Hulu? It'd be nicer to catch a ton of TV and movie content all in one place, than separate places. Makes getting rid of a cable subscription easier.
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Chrissy said 10:39PM on 11-13-2008
I agree with quikboy, I would like to get my viewing pleasure from sites like hulu while getting my social rocks off from splinter communities like http://www.vloggerheads.com
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Chrissy said 10:39PM on 11-13-2008
I agree with quikboy, I would like to get my viewing pleasure from sites like hulu while getting my social rocks off from splinter communities like http://www.vloggerheads.com
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Steven said 8:30AM on 12-18-2008
This place is great. Wap
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