Stupid vindictive chicks.

I think this is a great idea. There is a market for the content that the old Tech TV provided and some things you just can’t visualize on a Podcast. (Video podcast maybe) But your target audience is not being served now and most of them don’t spend all day reading RSS feeds and listening to podcasts. They are similiar people, but like video and sumarized content, but also they like the personalities. The entertainment you suggest above. There are also the members of the audience that are similar to those that listen to Kim Komando on the radio on Saturdays or to Leo’s radio show. They’ll want to see the show as well. And then there’s people like me, who just enjoy all of it and like having some good characters report and have the same zeal about tech as I do and seeing them live it out, go see the latest stuff and tell me all about it….. Weblogs, Digg and all that are nice, but TV is different and better in a lot of ways. It’s community that I can share with my family, then turn around and go to the computer to find more to to try what we saw together…. Go after this. It’s a ripe time agian for this kind of content and there’s even more oppertunity now than ever and more technology that needs covering than ever as well. I know before G4 messed it all up, I watched everyday almost from 6 pm till 9 CST and then would often watch the repeat of TSS. I actually would like to see the old 1.5 hr show back. 1 hr was too short….. I also watched CFH all the time too. And I almost forgot, the nightly tech newcast. (Erica Hill was doing it then…) Anyway, don’t let the naysayers kill this. It is extremely possible and there is a fan base that advertisers can market too to pay for this…. and if you do it in Ausin, TX by chance, let me know as I’d like to try out to be a host and if not a host, a reporter or Final Cut Pro editor….

Good luck to all of you….

I miss tuning into The Screen Savers every night, but I get a ton out of This Week in Tech and Digg every day.

With that said, if you can get a TV endeavor off the ground, I hope that there’ll be more geeking out. I would 100% welcome a special two hour show on ASP.NET 2.0. You know a thing I haven’t search around enough to find out? Hard drive management on my FreeBSD box (i.e. moving from my current drive to a bigger drive, can I mount a new drive as part of existing file structures, etc.). Let’s see an hour show on that. You know, enough with 10 minute segments on how to install linux, how about a recurring show or some in-depth hours on how to USE and MANAGE linux once it’s installed?

I understand you can’t have wall-to-wall programming like that, that you’ve got to have mostly higher level stuff, but I can’t tell you how frustrating it was to watch the screensavers some times, excited about a piece that had been teased in the promos, only to find out that it was once again some high-level montage that you couldn’t really learn from. So if you get to TV, let’s have some DETAIL instead of some high-level, and by gosh I’ll tivo it and find time to watch it, or capture it and convert it to a portable format.

PS: make all your TV shows downloadable. leave the ads in. When the sponsors say, “but they can fast forward the ads in the download,” remind them that we can fast forward the ads when they’re on TV, too. And I’ll tell you: I’m actually a lot less likely to fast forward when I’m watching while I’m on the elliptical than when I’m sitting on the couch. I see every ad on DL.TV and Cranky Geeks because I don’t want to interrupt the workout to fiddle with the Treo. May all advertisers put that in their pipes and smoke it.

Not me, it wouldn’t have. One of my disappointments with TechTV even at its peak was that there still was not a show that catered to programmers/coding. Even today I’m not aware of an online video show that does.