Comments on: HeavyTV

HeavyTV

crunchland — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:53:56 -0800

HeavyTV screens different full-length movies every week for broadband users. Showing this week: Airheads, Live From Baghdad, Pacific Heights and Extreme Ops.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:56:46 -0800

Yeah, there's basic problems with the service ... it immediately asks for an email address (though presumably, a bogus one will do); it insists on 1024x768; it requires java to be enabled; and it's built around the REAL engine; and it only works for broadband. Plus, there's lots of pleas for donations. Still, the quality is good, and I enjoyed watching Pacific Heights last night. So...

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:12:15 -0800

though presumably, a bogus one will do Empty space works just fine as well...and things worked fine on resolutions >1024x768 for me. The donation plea I watched before seeing (THE CREDITS ONLY YOU MPAA BONEWADS JUST STEP THE HELL OFF) "Airheads" made me realize: this is PBS for the new millenium.

By: aladfar

aladfar — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:31:15 -0800

Doesn't appear to work in Safari. Can't say I really expected it to.

By: damclean2

damclean2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:31:44 -0800

Mmmm... non-stop Madonna videos.

By: damclean2

damclean2 — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:32:22 -0800

Safari works fine if you turn off the pop-up window blocking. I'm using Safari as we speak.

By: GriffX

GriffX — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:07:50 -0800

I applaud their efforts, but I would consider contributing money to them only if their content were not so very, very horrible. Wait, I wandered in here from a PBS thread.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 04:59:11 -0800

yeah, it's no testicle theatre, that's for sure. Wait a week. Maybe you'll find something you'll like then.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:51:35 -0800

Sweet for my English-TV-less expat broadband-enabled ass. Unsweet that there was an announcement midway through one of the movies that they're going secure, password-protected, soon.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:55:37 -0800

apparently, they've been threatening to do that for awhile.

By: kodas

kodas — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:34:40 -0800

All old cable TV offerings...Was hard pressed to pick from the weak selection just to see the quality of the movies. Didn't work in Mozilla 1.5b either. Looked OK but had to use IE (shudder). As an aside, when I spell checked this comment the dictionary suggested I replace "IE" with "die"...