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CBS Suckitude
Jul. 31st, 2007 10:25 pmCBS canceled Pirate Master last week. It's an interesting reality game show with some good mechanics that I'll be writing about tomorrow ... but that's not how CBS sucks (though it's pretty darned low when a network cancels a show with something like 4 episodes left during the summer).
After the cancellation CBS said they'd be posting the rest of the episodes online, and so I've been watching them, something I usually avoid because I hate having to sit in my office chair to watch a TV show.
And I'm amazed how utterly sucky CBS' "Innertube" is. For last week's episode I watched three-quarters of it, then the last quarter either wouldn't play or played with no sound. Lots of other people complained about the same. Finally three or four days later they fixed things.
This week I was able to watch all the way through, but CBS' server was so bad that I kept getting parts of the show that were like a slide show. Blink, blink, blink, as the sound streamed in the background. I just watched the last bit now, after 10pm, and things were better 80% of the time.
Is this not 2007? Hasn't streaming video been a technology for years now? How the heck does CBS suck so much at it?
Ahem.
If CBS moved Pirate Master online to encourage people to visit their video on their website, they should have made it not suck first.
After the cancellation CBS said they'd be posting the rest of the episodes online, and so I've been watching them, something I usually avoid because I hate having to sit in my office chair to watch a TV show.
And I'm amazed how utterly sucky CBS' "Innertube" is. For last week's episode I watched three-quarters of it, then the last quarter either wouldn't play or played with no sound. Lots of other people complained about the same. Finally three or four days later they fixed things.
This week I was able to watch all the way through, but CBS' server was so bad that I kept getting parts of the show that were like a slide show. Blink, blink, blink, as the sound streamed in the background. I just watched the last bit now, after 10pm, and things were better 80% of the time.
Is this not 2007? Hasn't streaming video been a technology for years now? How the heck does CBS suck so much at it?
Ahem.
If CBS moved Pirate Master online to encourage people to visit their video on their website, they should have made it not suck first.