Comments on: it's like television, but nicer.

it's like television, but nicer.

crunchland — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:45:10 -0800

neave.tv is an experimental use of video over the web... To watch, you'll need a broadband connection (>1mb) and a fast computer (1GHz or higher).

By: drstein

drstein — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:50:44 -0800

Hey, and it even works with Mac OS X. Neat stuff! Too bad my cable modem is such a slow, flaky, unreliable piece of shit. Ahh.. Dark Star. I remember that movie. :D

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:01:21 -0800

Define "nicer".

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:05:08 -0800

Define "nicer". (It's just one of the slogans they use up at the top of the screen, not my opinion.)

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:16:59 -0800

Neat. Thanks! And I never would have known that Four Tet did a video for "Smile Around the Face" without the link.

By: Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:27:10 -0800

Neat interface. I'm a sucker multicolored for vertical bars.

By: Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:28:35 -0800

Hrm. I'm a sucker for multicolored vertical bars.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:40:37 -0800

Metafilter: I'm a sucker multicolored for vertical bars. Does everyone get "Dark Star" first? Why?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:43:40 -0800

After watching it for awhile, I think that if you think of it as a streaming video blog without the blog (like, the blogger inserting his opinions or descriptions), it might make more sense. There are old things I hadn't seen for awhile, and stuff I'd never seen before. I have it streaming on my second monitor. Sort of like ambient video.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:15:44 -0800

That was cool.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:22:13 -0800

Hextatic is still up to their old tricks! hooray!

By: thecashcow

thecashcow — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:48:53 -0800

Nice link. It will be great once this becomes available for all tv in HD.

By: redteam

redteam — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:52:41 -0800

This is wonderful! The lack of a progress bar makes it even more mysterious and exciting. I feel that I can just trust the website to serve out trippy videos like I would a trust a DJ with music. Much, much better than just watching it all manually with Google Video or Youtube. Great stuff! Thanks!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:54:08 -0800

Cool! I love the distorted transition. And Dark Star, of course, rocks!

By: tylermoody

tylermoody — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:01:54 -0800

good find

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:02:57 -0800

That's what I want from my internets. I really liked the short film tyger.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:26:01 -0800

As sort of recently seen on Ask Metafilter.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:06:40 -0800

I wan't much interested until it told me I was looking lovely. Then I realized that I was in the presence of genius. But I am not a silly school girl, I was not lured to the rss feed.

By: Skwirl

Skwirl — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:32:40 -0800

I dunno. Is it really such a good thing to make a computer feel like a television? The medium is the massage, dontchaknow. That being said, there's a special place in my heart for the Bomb #20 epistemology dialogue in Dark Star.

By: sfts2

sfts2 — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:24:08 -0800

Or maybe this is the future of TV.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:24:41 -0800

Zoomy grainy fullscreen, I bet they will patent it much like Friendster.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:30:47 -0800

yawn, color me unimpressed.

By: beaucoupkevin

beaucoupkevin — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:30:20 -0800

I think they're really onto something. The phrase "ambient TV" does a fantastic job of encapsulating it and I want to see more. However, since Delmoi is unimpressed and yawning, I may change my mind in the near future.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:36:33 -0800

hey yay cool. i really want the internet to replace tv. also, i am drunk and this is appealing to me right now. so. there you go.