I was wondering when the big TV/Movie media companies were going to get smart about internet delivery of material. They have been getting better over the years, but you would have to go to their individual pages like ABC.com or NBC.com and have limited choices for viewing. Enter hulu.com, evidently NBC-Universal and News Corp put this thing together (or at least funded it initially and provided content) and off it went. It started in private beta last October and went public in March. I first heard of it a couple of days ago. The site offers a good alternative to grainy pirated clips of shows that you find on youtube and allows a central site for full length movies, tv shows, and clips of both. You can embed the shit too (see below). I never thought I would pimp for the MSM, but fuckit, the site makes sense, you just have to sit through some short comercials every once and a while, but they are bearable for an otherwise free service.
Here’s the best part about embedding, and I’ve been looking for this simple functionality forever. You can very easily and intuitively control the start and stop time of the embedded content. Very cool feature.
So I was in Best Buy the other day salivating over a bunch of shit that I wanted to buy when I noticed an entire DVD section dedicated to HBO shows and movies. When I was browsing the titles, I came across the first four seasons of The Wire. I remembered reading somewhere that the show wasn’t just good, it was fucking good, and I decided to check it out. So I bought season 1, jerked-off on the clerk, and walked to car… ok I didn’t jerk-off on the clerk, that would be ridiculous, I just shat on her stomach. On my way home from Best Buy, I remembered where I read about the show, it was on Sadcox’s site. I think the word for his view on the show is evangelical. Check out his take on the show in the previous link, he has a much purtier mouth than I do… I just swear a lot. Anyway, I just finished up season 1 last night and bought season 2 during my lunch hour today, it has been exactly 6 days since I picked up the first season. Hello, my name is billymac, and I’m addicted to The Wire. Thanks Sadcox.
My wife bought me a Bose “QuietComfort 2″ pair of headphones a couple of years back when I was a road warrior (no I wasn’t an Aussie with a mohawk that killed people for gas, I used to spend a shit-load of time on business trips). First off this product fucking rules, it makes most of airplane background noise go bye-bye and the quality of sound is excellent. So I’ve been enjoying these headphones for a couple of years and I’m pretty god-damned hard on most things (i.e., I can’t seem to NOT break shit like headphones, watches, balls, etc), when the plastic right above the right side snaps on my most recent trip to Vegas mid-flight. AND, it broke in the middle of the shit-tastic movie Jane Austin Club, personally, I think the headphones committed suicide because the movie sucked more than anything before… except Enchanted of course. Because I couldn’t find another set of headphones of better quality that didn’t cost my first-born, we went to the Bose store to buy another pair. It turns out that there was a recall on the model I had because of a plastic issue, and they offered to replace or allow me to upgrade for cheap. I ended up replacing it for free.
Let’s recap, 1) good customer service - they didn’t have to tell me about the recall and my headphones were over a year beyond the warranty, 2) free shit - they replaced the headset for free, and 3) good shit - quality product. That sounds like the winning combination for generating loyalty. Now I’m pimping their product to the person who reads this site, AND I’m listening to hard-core gangsta rap right now…. good times. “Fuck tha po-lice coming straight from the underground…”
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