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Two New Eps on Shout! TVTwo more episodes of MST3K are streaming exclusively on Shout! Factory TV: episode 518- THE ATOMIC BRAIN (with short: WHAT ABOUT JUVENILE DELINQUENCY?) and episode 911- DEVIL FISH.
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Atomic Brain has the stinger, but no title card
I KNOW!
Am I wrong or are they still using Flash for these? You’d think with Mozilla and Facebook both taking the bold step to block Flash that most sites would finally stop bothering to pay Adobe to use such ancient, buggy garbage and make their content more accessible. Hey Shout, I love you guys to death but answer me this: I can stream my entire Rifftrax VOD library on both my Wii U and my PS3, so why can’t I watch Shout TV on my consoles? It’s great you have these up on the site, but how many people will actually watch a full 90 minute episode with their phone or a laptop on their knees? Shout: Please put your streaming content in HTML5 or another format that will reach more of your audience!
Seriously, I cannot for the life of me understand why any major company at this point would still waste their money paying Adobe to put their content behind Flash, it just boggles my mind.
off topic,
but on thursday, August 13th its Ann-Margret day on TCM (from 6am to 6am the next day)
Huh. They do offer the content in a non-Flash format for Roku. I rarely watch anything on a computer, and haven’t tried ShoutFactoryTV.com that way, only with Roku.
By the way, there’s no licensing fee to offer content via Flash. Now, it is true that Flash is the devil, but offering content in Flash format is not costly. The devil is sneaky that way.
I recently found Shout TV, and am rather irritated. Hulu as gotten me used to commercials being slipped back into broadcast TV series. They can be grindingly repetitive at times, but I get it. Dollar, dollar bill, ya’ll. But Hulu actually puts commercials in MST3k episodes WHERE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE!. Shout TV not only puts commercials in first run movies (Dead Shadows), but puts additional ad breaks in on top of the already designated ones for MST3k. I’m glad MST is showing up across so many streaming services (very keen to try Pluto), but come on Shout. Make the normal commercial breaks longer and keep them where they were meant to be.
@# 5 Basil
“Huh. They do offer the content in a non-Flash format for Roku. I rarely watch anything on a computer, and haven’t tried ShoutFactoryTV.com that way, only with Roku.”
I don’t own a Roku and I have no use for one when most of my other set top devices (like my game consoles) can browse the web and stream video on my TV with no issue. I’m not making room in my budget for an additional connected device just because Shout hasn’t made their site game console friendly like Rifftrax has.
“By the way, there’s no licensing fee to offer content via Flash. Now, it is true that Flash is the devil, but offering content in Flash format is not costly. The devil is sneaky that way.”
Maybe not with computing devices but there is definitely a licensing fee that non-computing hardware manufacturers have to pay and it doesn’t matter if it’s not costly. Here’s why this is a problem: The original Wii system which released in 2006 had a web browser made by Opera which used a version of Flash lite. The browser worked quite nicely with sites such as Youtube. The problem? Every time Flash updated, this would gradually make many sites less stable with the Wii’s browser. Opera’s hands were tied because unless Nintendo paid the update fee (which they would occasionally), there was nothing they could do in the meantime (I know this because they used to have a dedicated board on the Opera forum for the Wii browser and that is what an actual Opera employee told us). By the time the Wii’s days were numbered, Youtube would crash on the browser just from watching 2 minutes of video because the browser just couldn’t keep up with Adobe’s endless update requirements for Flash lite which Nintendo was tired of paying for. Nintendo didn’t want to repeat this nonsense with their next system so when they made the Wii U, they wisely had a custom powerful HTML5 browser made. It actually outperformed IE 10 on HTML Test when it was first released, it’s the best non computing/non tablet browser I have ever used. Sites like Youtube, Rifftrax and even foreign TV channels stream like a beast (I have a friend who occasionally uses my Wii U browser to watch live international soccer matches). So, I’m sure they just need to make a rather minor adjustment on their end in order to enable it to be game console compatible or at least an HTML5 toggle option. Again, if I can use my Wii U or my PS3 to view my entire Rifftrax VOD library and stream video from most other sites, there shouldn’t be a major obstacle that would prevent Shout TV from working as well.
And to clarify something on Youtube, if there are any fellow Wii U owners here, do NOT use the system’s Youtube app. Like most other Youtube apps it’s garbage. Watch Youtube in the Wii U browser itself, works beautifully. And a huge shoutout and huge props for Rifftrax for continually making the site game console friendly, you guys rock!