South Park online — for free
p2pnet news | TV:- Are you a South Park fan?
Then here’s some good news for you 
MTV Networks is promising to release each and every South Park episode for free online next year.
“The decision from the biggest division of media conglomerate Viacom Inc follows on the heels of the ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,’ whose popularity online has helped boost television viewership,” says Reuters.
Presenting versions of TV shows online may have actually helped, says the story, quoting MTV Networks chairman and CEO Judy McGrath as saying:
“One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination.”
Of course, you can already get most, if not all, of them online. But still …..
Also See:
Reuters – MTV to offer all “South Park” clips online, November 29, 2007
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November 30th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I’ll be more interested when they detail HOW exactly these clips will be on the internet. Which format? Good or bad quality? Will it have DRM? What about ads during or before the clip?
November 30th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Who cares about The Format, Quality, and Ads.
They are free for shit sakes, they can do what they want with their episodes.
and as for the DRM.. as long as its not using a root kit I’m ok with it.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I’ll bet Viacom is only doing this to reverse the shitstorm they started when they sued Youtube.
“Who cares about The Format, Quality, and Ads.”
Anyone who’s a true fan of the show, that’s who. At least with television broadcasts, you can record it ahead of time, and skip the commercials. Any sort of anti-consumer control designed to prevent users from doing this (as well as format shifting, rewinding the funny parts, etc) will only anger the viewers, and then everyone loses.
And quality is a huge factor in determining whether or not something is worth watching. With broadcasts, the signal is guaranteed to produce a good picture regardless of your screen size. With digital streams, however, you can usually only watch it at the size and resolution that your bandwidth will allow, or what they’re willing to show. At least with Youtube, Dailymotion, etc, you can go full screen, but even that isn’t as good as the real thing. The video is compressed, and resizing it makes it more pixelated and sometimes slows the video down.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
They’ll have to be better quality than Mr. Twig for this to take off.
November 30th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
allabout-sp.net has all the eps for free in pretty good quality sans DRM
November 30th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
And the other question is will it be viewable to people outside of the US.