I check the Facebook rundown every morning like clockwork to see what has been going on since the last time I checked and it has evolved from being a keep track of family type of thing to a news type of thing like what RSS readers were about.. And Twitter.. So today I run through to the Rokuguide site and they have an update of a site that was quite near and dear, called Videobuzz.. Videobuzz is the YouTube watching site.. and it is being shut down.. This is Google doing this.. Kind of a buzz kill but guess what.. There are four or five other video sites on the Roku and two of them are up to the challenge of being the YouTube replacement.. Dailymotion being the one that I might start to post to.. There is a ton of material on youtube, and I will miss the Friday night music night there but I will move to another way of getting it.. I hope Roku gets a YouTube official channel, I hate the idea of getting a second streaming player that has a youtube channel just for that reason.. There are several out there but it seems like such a waste of money just to get YouTube for a while until Roku works out some sort of deal with Google/YouTube.. My reply to the news on the Facebook site was simply Major league bummer.. What can you say?? The channel was a beta (private) channel and well.. That's the "thems the breaks" situation.. Some get to live on, and others die. They come, they go.. It's part of the internet lifestyle, here today gone later today...
I took a look at the channel store on the Roku and added a couple yesterday to try and both I have had before.. One is called Moviephone which is a video and movie preview site.. It is part of the AOL.ON channel and was that reason that I got rid of it before.. But I reacquired it to try for S&G again.. and the other was the Snagfilms site which isn't at all what it sounds like.. There are a lot of cool videos on there, one of which is about monuments, sites along the road that tell of historical significants here & there.. I watched some of it and they were saying how these are not always very accurate.. Kind of an interesting video, I will try to finish watching it later on..
The commercials they show on these sites that are "free" aren't horrible, I know more about how the M&M will do anything for love but it won't do that.. And the car ads and Radio Shack, and truth be told a thirty second ad isn't that bad but it is the strange places they put the ads that have always baffled me.. In the middle of a scene that is fairly intense they will break.. Then come back from about there and continue on.. Strange commercial breaks.. The Vanguard site wouldn't start the video I wanted to see.. I was trying some sites for content to see if I wanted to keep the site or turn it free and might get them back on another day.. same commercial, the m&m and cars & radio shack.. I guess they have the market cornered for now.. Vanguard got shelved as did World Worth Watching for now anyway.. I've started to do that with certain video sites.. Not because the ads but because I wasn't watching them anyway.. Others that got the axe was the Macgufin site, it is watchable from the i-tunes site.. I check to see if the podcasts can be seen in the i-pod site for some of these.. Vevo comes and goes.. Vevo has so much new music videos so that is a huge strike against it.. Sorry vevo..
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I took a look at the channel store on the Roku and added a couple yesterday to try and both I have had before.. One is called Moviephone which is a video and movie preview site.. It is part of the AOL.ON channel and was that reason that I got rid of it before.. But I reacquired it to try for S&G again.. and the other was the Snagfilms site which isn't at all what it sounds like.. There are a lot of cool videos on there, one of which is about monuments, sites along the road that tell of historical significants here & there.. I watched some of it and they were saying how these are not always very accurate.. Kind of an interesting video, I will try to finish watching it later on..
The commercials they show on these sites that are "free" aren't horrible, I know more about how the M&M will do anything for love but it won't do that.. And the car ads and Radio Shack, and truth be told a thirty second ad isn't that bad but it is the strange places they put the ads that have always baffled me.. In the middle of a scene that is fairly intense they will break.. Then come back from about there and continue on.. Strange commercial breaks.. The Vanguard site wouldn't start the video I wanted to see.. I was trying some sites for content to see if I wanted to keep the site or turn it free and might get them back on another day.. same commercial, the m&m and cars & radio shack.. I guess they have the market cornered for now.. Vanguard got shelved as did World Worth Watching for now anyway.. I've started to do that with certain video sites.. Not because the ads but because I wasn't watching them anyway.. Others that got the axe was the Macgufin site, it is watchable from the i-tunes site.. I check to see if the podcasts can be seen in the i-pod site for some of these.. Vevo comes and goes.. Vevo has so much new music videos so that is a huge strike against it.. Sorry vevo..
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