It seems as though every day brings some new announcement related to “post-broadcast TV,” “IPTV,” or whatever we’re going to end up calling it: the rapidly smudging margins between broadcast/cable television and Internet-delivered video content. TiVo has recently started offering TV content delivered to your TV/TiVo over broadband (i.e. to TiVo boxes connected to a LAN and the Net). Today’s offering is a free subscription to Rocketboom, a daily NY videoblog of weird and wacky happenings on the Net and off of it. Think: video BoingBoing. No, really. Like a lot of the news content on Attack of the Show, we get the stinking feeling that Rocketboom deeply datamines our BB pals for copy. Why is it that it’s common etiquette to give credit where credit is due in the text blog world, but no such transparency extends to the video blogging world?
So, is Rocketboom any good? Worth subscribing to? Um…it’s got a fetching host, does that count?
Anyway, the news here isn’t about this particular show, but the beginnings of this sort of content delivery over broadband to your TV set.
[Via Make]