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December 3, 2005
current previews of nothing?
Robin sez we should subscribe to the Current RSS feed of upcoming video but the feed is just a tease -- it's nothing but text!
Why no video in the feed, guys?
Update: Josh finds unmentioned Current Preview feeds with enclosures:
QuickTime | WindowsMedia.
Nice, Josh! More short video for the PSP!
Posted by yatta at December 3, 2005 1:35 AM
Comments
Probably no feed since one of their own put it (paraphrasing) 'internet distribution doesn't work/isn't there' or something as lame as that. But say hey, they are in 20 million households /smirk, and get friggin 13-15 uploads a day.... Now last time i checked, there's a weeeeeeeee bit more activity in the rest of the world. The world that travels scatters about and teaches people to make media. The world that gets hassled by otherwise complacenet cops. The countless shows and vlogs and citizen journos.
While Current speaks of democracy, they certainly make the barrier higher than most. But then again, that's television for ya. At least the whole place is run on all Mac stuff and 99.9% digital. So the techies get it.
But yeah. I'm wound up about this. (Oh and I couldn't *video* the new producer tour. WTF?)
Posted by: Eric Rice at December 3, 2005 5:42 AM
I don't see these listed on their site now... but I found these feeds for Current a while back and they include the media files as enclosures:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CurrentPreviewQuicktime
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CurrentPreviewWindows
Posted by: Josh Kinberg at December 4, 2005 1:03 AM