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Free Downloadable Tech Shows 123

Posted by Zonk from the new-and-fun dept.
Omninox writes "Tech Shows is a list of some of the best free downloadable tech shows currently available on the Internet. One year ago there were almost no free downloadable shows available." Includes shows like Diggnation, Go Open, Nerd TV, and Channel 9.
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  • Pure Pwnage in the List (Score:5, Informative)

    by Namronorman ( 901664 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @12:59AM (#13535718)
    I strongly suggest watching Pure Pwnage if you're into games. It is absolutely hilarious!

  • Good to see stuff like this (Score:4, Insightful)

    by FlyByPC ( 841016 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @01:01AM (#13535722) Homepage
    I hope we see more interesting online content like this. I think eventually on-demand content will be the way to go, once bandwidth becomes even cheaper. Maybe niche shows like these will finally eliminate the "500-channels-and-nothing-good-on" problem.

    • Re:Good to see stuff like this (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Yeah, instead it'll be the "8,168,684,336 web pages and nothing good on" problem

      • Yeah, instead it'll be the "8,168,684,336 web pages and nothing good on" problem

        Enter the new P2P-based content rating systems, complete with web of trust to prevent astroturfing/trolling and anonymity to prevent "five stars or DDOS" type scenarios.

        You could propably use Freenet [freenetproject.org] for something like this, assuming that the next generation will finally work well...

        • Enter the new P2P-based content rating systems, complete with web of trust to prevent astroturfing/trolling and anonymity to prevent "five stars or DDOS" type scenarios.

          Yeah, great, so I get to watch stuff that everyone -else- thinks is good...!

          Just like ITV in the UK. Oh goody.

          • yeah, except if it was designed well, it would take your ratings and compare it to others who like the same stuff you do. Thus if you rate "Yet another crappy reality TV show" as say 1 star, it would hopefully not recommend any other reality tv shows.

            Of course it would be a little more complicated than just going off one or two ratings but it could work.
          • It's possible to program this well. Look at Amazon's "if you like this ... check out this" or "customers who bought this, also bought this". If you shop on Amazon, you know that the latter is incredibly accurate even if your taste of music is "outsider" or "underground". Of course, stuff on Amazon isn't underground but that's not my point.

            You could build a system that does this well and could introduce you to media that is very much what you want to watch. It is this interactivity, linking/memes, neural

  • The Scene (Score:1, Insightful)

    by moonka ( 889094 )
    I started watching the scene when it was featured on slashdot, and it's mildly entertaining. One question about this list, what about Red Vs. Blue? I think most people would consider it one of the best downloadable shows.
    • Right. Tech shows. Ignore me. :)

      • Re:The Scene (Score:1, Flamebait)

        by Bios_Hakr ( 68586 )
        How the fuck is The Scene a tech show? Other than the fact that they chat on IRC and occaionally use iTunes, it's a low-tech drama.

        Just because tech is IN a show does not make it ABOUT tech. RvB is just as high-tech as The Scene. And don't even fucking mention Pure Pwnage..
    • Thing about RvB is that you either love it or you hate it. Me, I absolutely hate that show. Nothing but a bunch of talking heads that sound like 13 year olds from counter strike. And everything they say is absolutely stupid. I know there are people out there that love it. But there are also a LOT of people that think it is the dumbest thing ever. Me, I've got better things to do than listen to a couple of morons' back and forth banter.

  • HDTV and beyond (Score:3, Interesting)

    by zymano ( 581466 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @01:05AM (#13535736)
    Video over the Net.
      If more websites could broadcast and produce HDTV quality and higher res photos then this would be the impetus to move to broadband for everyone. It would also lower costs with more competitition(wimax).

    I need a reason to switch but it's not there yet for me. I don't play alot of games or download operatings systems. HDTV quality video productions,Sports,Movies and News might push people over from evil pricey cable tv.
    • Well, what needs to happen is that similar to PodCasts, we need to have RSS feeds of these shows, and then build RSS Aggregation into MythTV and similar apps. This would enable the download of any RSS feeds desired, or the browsing of feeds in real time, and so on.
    • Having TV programmes on the Internet won't make broadband any cheaper or more widely available. That's assuming that broadband is fast enough to stream quality TV. I don't really know much about that sort of thing, but I don't think 512kb/s is enough for HDTV, or even normal TV.

      Anyway, who wants to watch TV on the computer? I prefer to watch it on the TV in the living room, not in a cramped study upstairs somewhere.

      Imagine the scene: World Cup final, England vs Brazil, penalty shootout. Beckham steps up, to
      • Movies on computers suck. Your right.

        It will all change when it gains momentum.

        High speed cables , like firewire connected to a server in the house. It will all be connected and wireless too.

        • Re:HDTV and beyond (Score:1, Funny)

          by Anonymous Coward
          so you are saying High speed wireless cables?

          I can picture it now, you can buy a monster cables set of these guys for $49.95 and the box is empty, but the air is quality!
      • TV is reliable, but is far from 'on-demand' unless all you mean is that it turns on when you hit the power button.

        The idea that he's throwing out there is that you could have these broadcasts when you chose to have them, not just streaming the same content to everyone simultaneously (ala winamp tv).

        Most new video cards have outputs for your television is you're intent on seeing it on a low resolution tv screen and myth TV isn't that bad of an option for this sort of technology.

        The direction I see it _actual
        • Why would there be constant adverts? There aren't now.

          I don't have a video card with TV output, at least I think I don't, I'm not a sad geek so I don't know about things like that. And I still don't like the idea of dragging a big cable half way round the house, or setting up a Linux box to fuck about with mythtv.

          Face it, computers are fucking useless, I wouldn't let one near a TV in a million years. I'd blame Bill Gates but I use Linux and it's still god-awful.

          Imagine TV freezing up because someone's at th
          • did you read my comment or just reply to it with mindless blather?

            My comment: tv's have lower resolutions and are lower quality than monitors. most computer's have tv outputs (whether you realize it or not) so if you really want to see it on tv you CAN.

            But I also commented that computers WEREN'T the future of this tech, instead you would see it on Tivo/Direct TV style boxes. Anotherwords, it's still digital and it's still on a 'computer' but it's a dedicated computer.
  • These videos prove that the read/write web 2.0 is full on hardcore!

    Anyway, you had me at "Diggnation". I've got a full-throttle tech-hard-on for Kevin Rose. Leaving TechTV/G4 has been the best thing he ever did.

    However, I'd also like to see more alternative content in this fashion on the web, ala Sean Kennedy's "TFM" shows. They were really unique and creative and, in a way, united a certain group of people in a conscientious way.
    • Anyway, you had me at "Diggnation". I've got a full-throttle tech-hard-on for Kevin Rose.
      Speaking of full-throttle tech-hard-ons for Kevin Rose, be sure to see Systm.org. Episode 1 and 2 are better than episode 3. There is a new SubSystm episode available: "Cracking open the iPod Nano".

  • Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by personman21 ( 762072 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @01:11AM (#13535758)
    http://www.filefarmer.com.nyud.net:8090/techshows/ [nyud.net]

  • Zonk! (Score:1)

    by 246o1 ( 914193 )
    Of the 9 Zonk-posted articles that appeared at the top when I changed my settings, this is the least sensational. Of course, it's also the hardest to argue about, which is a little dispiriting.

  • Surprise, surprise (Score:4, Funny)

    by i_should_be_working ( 720372 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @01:14AM (#13535766)
    Rocketboom is currently one of the most popular videoblogs on the internet with more daily subscribers for original syndicated multimedia content than nearly any other site, including podcasts.

    See if you can guess which show this excerpt is from by just looking at the pictures in the article.




    Give up? It's the one with the blonde showing cleavage.

  • there are even more than these (Score:3, Informative)

    by droops ( 807432 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @01:18AM (#13535775) Homepage
    if anyone wants to see other good shows (and that have no adds all over the sites)

    http://ranttv.com/ [ranttv.com] is a 24/7 station with great shows

    http://www.binrev.com/hacktv/ [binrev.com] BinRev has HackTV (2 episodes)

    http://infonomicon.org/video.php [infonomicon.org] Infonomicon TV (6 episodes)

    sorry about your server stinky, i bet mine goes down before yours =o)

  • Are any worth it? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by dangitman ( 862676 )
    I'm just a bit skeptical about "videoblogs." Most audio blogs (podcasts) on technology and science topics turned out to be a waste of time. The audio format just tends to add filler. I can get the same information more thoroughly and efficiently via text. Does the video (or audio) experience actually add anything?

    I have seen and heard good radio and TV shows about science and technology - but they tend to come from my local (non-commercial) FM and TV stations, not web broadcasting. I am reluctant to bother

    • Re:How about TWIT? (Score:3, Informative)

      by penguinix ( 861079 )
      I belive TWIT didn't make the list because all the shows on the list are video casts. TWIT is only in podcast form at the moment. I do belive that TWIT will be turned into a video cast in the future as it has appeared on the Revision 3 site (they do internet T.V.). Leo has hinted on taping the future shows as well.

  • Darren from Hak.5 IPTV says Hello (Score:5, Informative)

    by aardwolf204 ( 630780 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @01:33AM (#13535826)
    As an avid slashdotter and now IPTV producer I would like to say hello to the fellow slashdotters. I'm one of the crew producing the monthly IPTV show Hak.5, a show about tech, homebrew hacks, mods, code, and all sorts of good stuff.

    Before our server melts to the ground I'll point out some links for episodes 1 and 2: Torrent Links:
    Episode 1 Xvid Torrent [hak5.org]
    Episode 1 Quicktime Torrent [hak5.org]
    Episode 2 h.264 AVI [hak5.org]
    Episode 2 Xvid [hak5.org]
    Episode 2 medium quality Quicktime [hak5.org]

    Direct Download Links:
    Episode 1 Quicktime [kysz.org]
    Episode 1 Xvid [kysz.org]
    Episode 2 h.264 AVI [kysz.org]
    Episode 2 Xvid [kysz.org]

    A streaming version of Episode 2 can be found at YouTube here [youtube.com] (Flash Required).

    We just finished filming a mod segment for episode 3, to be released October 5th, tonight and I'm glad I checked slashdot before going to bed.

    I'll be more than happy to answer any questions about the show or IPTV in general here. Also, we're in the process of moving to a dedicated server with terabytes of bandwidth this week that will allow us to offer direct downloads of the show as well as getting listed on iTunes. Check hak5.org [hak5.org] for updates or sign up for the newsletter [hak5.org]

    Oh yes, and in Soviet Russia, Hak.5 watches you!

    --Darren
    Hak5.org
    • Lovely, no seeds for the torrents and 404s on the direct download links. How exactly are we supposed to get these? ;)
    • Darren,
      I work for a "IPTV" broadcast company, and we are about to debut a "technology" channel. If you'd like to syndicate your content feel free to contact us. We also provide free web hosting for video creators such as yourself.

      Guess I better add to the conversation to keep this from being SPAM huh? ;-)

      There are a lot of good sites out there making great video shows, as someone in the industry I think the real challenge is reaching your audience.
  • What about consolevania, a great games review show featuring xbox live champion Legend?

    http://www.consolevania.com/ [consolevania.com]

    http://www.thefraudcast.com/now.htm [thefraudcast.com]
  • I can't help but wonder how long it will take before the interesting casts get foobared by being pumped full of ads.

    • Re:How long before we get massive commercials in t (Score:4, Interesting)

      by LadyGuardian ( 568469 ) * on Monday September 12, 2005 @02:58AM (#13536024) Homepage Journal
      bias alert: I'm Jenn Cutter from Open Alpha [openalpha.tv]

      Vid/podcasts will quickly become shunned if they sell out to corporate interests. No one wants to download something that's seemingly independent, only to find out that it's a 30-minute, 500MB commercial for HP/Canon/Sony/whatever. I started OA to geek out about games and tech and have fun. Many cool things have happened since, including a few upcoming guest segments on Call For Help, but that's just bonus. Those that start these kinds of projects for financial gain will find very little reward at this point in time and will (hopefully) jump to other get-rich-quick schemes while those of us that care about the content we're producing will merrily continue on.

      ps: episode 3 really IS coming :)
      • Mildly off topic, but complements for your show. It's quite nice to see a cute girl that loves technology, thankfully becoming more and more frequent.

        (And no to all else that wasn't a sniggering pickup line rather a note on how there seems to be a stupid social construct that it is more important for girls to be good looking rather than intelligent, and the myth that a girl can't be both. I can't stand girls who bow to this and become a silly whimsical giggly idiot, and no I don't mean [just] sexual pa
      • Jenn is right. There is no money in vidcasting/iptv. To date Hak.5 has made about negative $3,000. I'm sure Jenn can attest to the same. We're doing this because it's something we love to do. As I mentioned in our first post on Hak5.org: instead of building a beowulf cluster for fun, we're building a beowulf cluster for fun, filming it, and sharing the fun with all. I can almost guarantee that the handful of IPTV shows out right now would agree to this statement, and I seriously doubt any would sell out to
  • One of the shows is described like this:

    "...Agenda includes releasing each new clip at 8am est, Monday through Friday...

    Amazing concept! I hope they accomplish their agenda. I'll have to watch to see how it develops.

  • expect legislation to kill this (Score:5, Insightful)

    by bani ( 467531 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @02:13AM (#13535923)
    if you want to know what terrifies the MPAA/RIAA more than anything else, it's ipradio and iptv.

    iptv/ipradio threaten the distribution models that corporations have traditionally controlled from top to bottom.

    expect them to start ramming legislation down everyones throats to kill this before it gets off the ground. a few cries of 9/11 and "think of the children" (and under the table dollar bills) should do it.
    • I think podcasting is already off the ground, look at iTunes 4.9 and 5.0. Vidcasting (or IPTV) is getting off the ground as well. There is nothing legislation can do to stop it. Unless of course we loose the first amendment.
      • first amendment? look at the DMCA for an example, and look at how the DMCA has been abused to curtail free speech.

        doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell that podcasting and iptv are next.

        don't need to lose the first amendment. just need bad laws.
      • It can be effectively killed by requiring producers to be licensed and to conform to a content rating system... it's amazing how beaurocracy can be used to tie people up in regulations and other cr4p so that people give up rather than submit to the byzantine maze of getting approval.
    • I think there's less to fear from legislation than ISPs that also have an interest in content distribution. Verizon is rolling out fiber to the home so that they can sell TV, its cost tens of $billions. Its seems much more likely that they would turn to filtering out competitors to protect that investment.
    • MPAA/RIAA

      They can legistlate people producing/distributing this in American, maybe. But they can't stop the rest of the world making it, and the Americans downloading it.

  • MythTV was interesting to watch... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by antdude ( 79039 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @02:31AM (#13535958) Homepage Journal
    I was thinking of making one, but from what I heard it was complex. After downloading and watching the episode [revision3.com], it made more sense. Much better than reading and looking at screen shots. :)

    I hope to see more of these types of shows. It doesn't have to be on computers and technologies either.
  • Seriously, all that geeky and funny stuff on Slashdot would certainly make it a great show. :)

    • Geeks In Space (Score:4, Informative)

      by PhotonSphere ( 193108 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @03:17AM (#13536063) Homepage Journal
      They did.
       
      It was called Geeks in Space [thesync.com].

      They stopped putting them out there shortly after some of the gang moved. I'll have to go back through and listen to the archives - it will be interesting to revisit what was exciting and new around that time...

      My favorite tech radio shows is Technology Bytes [geekradio.com] on 90.1 KPFT in Houston, Texas.

    • Too late, This Week in Tech is seriously better than anything /. could put out.
      • I find that hard to believe.

        I'll admit to the following things:

        1.) I've never listened to an episode of "Geeks in Space" although the show did exist when I began lurking on /. - long before I registered or posted.

        2.) I've never been indoctrinated to the "Cult of Leo" that seems to arise around him - never saw a TechTV show, or listened to any of his stuff before discovering TWiT about a month ago.

        My goodness, that show is *horrible*. It is too long, not that informative, and contains way too much ego mastu
        • Whoa...you want to complain about buzzwork repetition and ego masturbation? You seriously need to listen to an episode of Geeks in Space. :-)

          I've never even heard of Leo L-something until I found TWiT a few weeks ago. I find the shows amusing and reasonably informative. Security Now! is even better but more focused.

  • Teh Scene (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Welcome to the Scene (the second last entry on the page) is an anti-piracy initiative which is apparently sponsored by the RIAA to make the life of "sceners" (those who 'steal' and 'copy' software then distribute it online) look boring, and their lives a failure in general.

    A much better alternative is "Welcome to teh scene" available at http://www.welcometotehscene.com/ [welcometotehscene.com]
    It's a parody version of the original, and is very amusing - in particular if you've seen the originals.

  • Click Online? (Score:3, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12, 2005 @02:44AM (#13535991)
    I am surprised Click Online was not mentioned. It has been available online for a number of years (thanks BBC World).

    http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonli ne.asp?pageid=666&home=1 [bbcworld.com]
    • since about half the time they are explaining _what_ RAM and Processors are, or showing off different websites... and never getting deep into the subject of technology.

      Glossing over the details is not very geeky, so, it's more of an educational/entertainment show for the hordes of 'ordinary' people.

      in my (rather picky) opinion, a tech show should assume the watcher has a basic knowledge of modern computers, or it wastes too much valuable time educatin' the peasents wot dat Tel-E-Vision thang is.

  • Channel 9? Funktio moronico? (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Tottera mia ken tessera...

    CHANNEL 9!

    Republica presente...
    Tech Show!

  • BBC Tech Shows (Score:4, Informative)

    by mikiN ( 75494 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @04:43AM (#13536255)
    Be sure to check out BBC News' Technology page [bbc.co.uk].

    Besides tech related articles, it features: 'Go Digital' (podcast, video), 'Click Online' (video) and 'R5Live: Talking Tech' (video).
  • In the UK, BBC et al have a quota of % of shows that they provide subtitling for that they meet with the BBC aiming to provide 100% coverage on all channels. But currently all BBC video's from their website does not include any subtitles and nor does any other Internet TV's. There is a huge number of hearing impaired PC users that could watch those steaming video's but don't due to no subtitles/captions. It'll be nice if some of the more popular one start thinking about providing subtitles (and this have
  • Bill Nyyyyeee the Science Guuuuyyy...!!!111!!1 Bill, bill, bill, bill, bi-bi-bill bill nye the science guy T-minus 7 seconds.. Ok thats about as much as I can remember from my childhood

  • How 'bout The Computer Chronicles? (Score:3, Informative)

    by Mr.Progressive ( 812475 ) on Monday September 12, 2005 @08:24AM (#13537201)
    You can download all the episodes (573!) of the PBS series The Computer Chronicles from Archive.org. Its run was from 1983 to 2002 so it's extremely dated material. But nostalgia tech is cool too!

    http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles [archive.org]
  • will have his own 15 minutes of videocast.

    -Eric

  • From The Shadows (Score:2, Informative)

    by djtriv ( 463132 )
    I was disappointed that From the Shadows [fromtheshadows.tv] wasn't included on this list. It's my favorite show, plus it often includes Yoshi of TechTV/The Screensavers fame.
  • I don't know if I want this, where I'm from channel 9 is UPN.
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  • creativity is going to be limited to those few that can afford to host large video files. Ive seen a few good possible solutions that take a bittorrent like approach and utilise peoples upstream to reduce the server load. http://www.pplive.com/ [pplive.com] (chinese) http://www5.pplive.com/english/ [pplive.com] (chinglish) This actually works pretty well, there's a large number of channels (although mostly in chinese, although HBO is there in english aswell as espn asia and alot of other sport channels which show english football
  • Diggnation is absolutely horrible. All it is is Albrecht saying "bastard" all the time.
  • I was surprised not to see Microsoft's .NET Show on there. Okay, so it isn't about gaming (it's about Microsoft's new technology), but when you're living in the most isolated city in the world it's an excellent source of information. Usually running around an hour, the in depth interviews are exellent. http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/ [microsoft.com]

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