- Details Sounds promising, starts in about a month. Comments? Predictions?
         

Here are mine:

A) It'll probably either be really cool or the beginning of the end for Pitchfork's street cred, probably the former (or maybe both). B) Expect a renaissance for the improvised performance video format. C) This is the future. D) Is that really going to be the logo? It looks like an intern haphazardly skewed the illustrator file in a rush to take a cigarette break.

         

actually i'd just noticed the other day that well over half of the day's forkcast was videos. consider my interest piqued - but judging by their current butt-ugly site design, i'm not holding my breath for them to get the crack the crucial viewing experience nut... the only place that comes close to interesting in this niche currently is vbs.tv. (on which subject: does anyone still watch specialten? chime? others?)

         

comment: this could be cool. I wonder if anyone will just watch the (streaming?) channel; or if people will click through the on-demand stuff (which would play like a high quality youtube).

Technology aside, the best thing they have going for them is the name.

Prediction: Won't really be a game-changer. I bet 95% of their content will still be label produced videos. I bet they'll play a lot more great-songs-with-bad-videos than great-videos-with-uncool-songs. Interesting to see how it all works out.

         

I checked specialten the other day but it looked like they hadn't updated in a long time. VBS TV, has some decent content but the site is slow and ugly and I'd rather be watching youtube most of the time. I think part of the problem is that a) the technology for these sites (and I'd also include MTV overdrive in this category) sites just isn't there yet.
and b) there's something fundamentally weird about trying to watch wanna-be-tv programing on a computer. That's why I never get excited about "web-show" sites like My Damn Channel. I would probably watch some of it's programing if I could slouch on my sofa and stumble unto new shows at 10:30 at night. I have a shorter attention span for things on the internet whereas on TV I'll watch shitty programming for an hour just out of laziness.

That being said if the video quality is as good as they promise (which it probably won't be), then Pitchfork.tv could be pretty interesting. I'll be watching the first week at least.

         

I think it'll come down to ease of use and organization. I like a lot of vbs.tv's content, but the actual site is so messy, I find myself wishing they'd just post their stuff on youtube. In fact, youtube is STILL the only site I know of that does video well (minus picture quality). It's predictable, standardized, clean, fast, and works every time. I hope Pfork spends more time working on making it dummy proof and less time on making it all fancy and stupid.

         

I'm excited. As long as the videos stream well. Wondering if they will take submitted content like Current.tv. Probably won't pay for it though, as they don't have Gore $$ behind them.

         

fuller details. juan's basement! (otc's B] indeed.) and here's a sneak preview (try the full-screen). [tech specs of the flv: 540 x 404 pixel, TrueMotion VP6, 23fps, MPEG Layer 3, Stereo, 44,100 kHz, 751.06 kbit/s, 22.4mb for 4 minutes.]

         

kill me now.

         

We'll see. It's logical move by Pitchfork and should give everyone who's making indie videos a hub for better exposure. -j

         

Sort of. It depends on if having a "tv station" expands Pitchfork's web base or not. Otherwise it's more or less the same as getting a video on the forkcast but with (hopefully) better resolution.

         

oh dear...