[Oceania-video] Democracy Now Downloadable Everyday In DVD Quality

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This is pretty interesting

http://demandmedia.net/story/2005/3/21/55829/3158
  Democracy Now!, an award winning, independently produced hour long 
daily news program, has recently begun putting its shows online in 
downloadable DVD quality MPEG2 format. I believe that makes it the 
first show that appears on traditional TV to make itself available in 
equal quality over the Internet as it is on broadcast TV (in the case 
DVB satellite).

The hosting is provided by the Internet Archive, which also generates 
lower quality VCD and MPEG4 quality files. The show airs at 8am EST, it 
usually takes until about 3pm for the show to be uploaded, low quality 
versions produced and made available. At this point about 2 weeks worth 
of shows have been made available, you can browse through them in their 
collection at the Internet Archive.

For those not familar with DN!, it is the premier broadcast news source 
for progressives and radicals in the US. The show airs on over 300 
public TV, cable access, and radio stations as well as both consumer 
satellite networks, DISH and DirecTV.

If you'd like to have the show delivered to your computer everyday, I 
wrote a little scraper to produce RSS feeds with encosures for the 
MPEG4, VCD, and DVD quality versions of the show. Typical file sizes of 
the respective formats are 150MB for MPEG4, 250MB for VCD, and 2.9GB 
for DVD. Of course, DN! already has a podcast feed for the audio 
version of the show.

Earth to Tivo. Earth to PBS. The future is waiting for you but not for 
much longer.