What is Digg?84 Comments
- blueice03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I beta-tested this and I was overwhelmingly impressed. Why? Because few other outlets, sites, news organizations or what have you, have done what CNN is attempting to do with this. All these comments about how absurd it is to pay for a service like this are, not to be a troll, the types of comments I'd expect from the slashdot crowd. I guess I don't get it. Why is there this expectation that services offered over the internet should be cheap or free? If you want a premium service then you should expect to have to pay for that premium service and this, my friends, is a premium service. Hell, it is even cheap. It is just a little over $2 a month. And whoever complained earlier about having to download CNN's own special player, you don't have to. They do have a web version that is download free. It is a great looking service and the kind of offering I have always expected news outlets to have but don't.
- Ryokurin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"The fact that it is pay for show you they just dont get it."
But seriously, how do you expect them to provide 3 live feeds and a live anchor or CNN International 24/7? It cost money. Would you rather them break through a live feed to show a commercial? If you want the clean version then just watch the free hourly clips on their site allready or watch on TV, otherwise your paying for live unedited news. - Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Would all of you guys who want to see this free be willing to watch the feeds interspersed with commercials? Is $3/month really that big of a deal breaker? The very fact that CNN did not decided to charge upwards of $15 per month is evidence to me that they DO get it. This isn't just canned content, it's live stuff that's going on right now. I'm not aware of anywhere else on the internet to get high quality broadband feeds like this for free, much less for $3/month or $25/year.
Seriously, if they offered it with 3 minute blocks of commercials every 15 minutes, would you watch? What if the client software was surrounded with cheesy animated flash ads? - rosspal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I signed up for it (the only way to truly find out if its worth it) and I like it.
It's like Tivo on your computer but with only one channel, CNN, and with NO COMMERCIALS!!!. They have a fairly large archive of news segments that allows you to pull stories from as far back as Nov 20 (this comment was written on Dec 5). I signed up for a single month for 2.95.
Is it worth it??
Yes! If you want news, either a live streaming feed or on demand playback of archived segments, minus the commercials, on your PC or MAC (yes they support MAC but no word on Linux), rewind, FF and Pause options, IT IS WORTH IT.
If Kevin and the guys decided to do the same for digg.com, I would gladly pay 2.95 a month (24.95 per year) for the same type of service. Yes I know I could get for free but what about a live streaming feed?? How about playing back any Digg episode without having to wait for the hour long download to complete before your able to play it back?? Or the fact the you don't have to save to your hard drive?
I WANT DIGG PIPELINE! - Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I blogged a review of Pipeline here:
http://tadspot.com/2005/12/05/cnns-pipeline-offers-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-iptv/ - joshualindley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'll pay for access to a bunch of simultaneous streams of live news... it's news I control.. without commercials.. I'd pay that just to not have commercials while I watch one channel of news.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just did the free trial for this and honestly, its pretty cool. When I'm at work I can't monitor the news beyond surfing the news sites. This has a very clean and easy to use interface as well.
$3 a month is nothing compared to what some people waste money on these days!
+digg! - mailman-zero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For a lot of discovery shows try
http://www2.digitaldistractions.org:8080/ - FlyboyP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anybody got a coupon code?
- kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3CNN= "Contains No News"
no digg.
I'll stick with the BBC. - merm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd pay for it. Nothing is free, when you watch regular television you pay by letting high pressure sales people into your house.
- soma-r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm gonna agree with blueice03, i just signed up, this service is beautiful. I can finally watch CNN international within US boundaries, I can get content on demand and there are no commercials! Commercials are just sick and I'd more than readily forgo what, the cost of a latte? two sodas? to be able to watch the news in peace. This is the best thing CNN has done in a long time. I pay $5 for the BBC's broadband service, and though I prefer BBC News, CNN Pipeline is by far a superior product. I'm glad to be able to pay for it over watching it with gross Wal-Mart ads every 30 seconds. Good job CNN!
- CPedison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If the SciFi and Discovery channels did this, I would totally quit cable.
- Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ericd543, the streams on CNN Pipeline will play full screen on my 19" monitor at 1280x1024 and they look pretty good, so I'd guess they'd look fine on your television.
And, sakibomb, I subscribed to Pipeline last night with my credit card and if they hadn't offered the 14 day trial, I would have still payed $3 for a month. - geoffeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You forgot to put "probe" in this headline.. To follow the CNN pattern it'd be more like: "CNN probes new 'Pipeline' Live Feeds" or maybe "CNN requests probe into new Live Feeds"...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ericd543, if companies offered such services at the miniscule price you're willing to pay for them, the production values of these things would plummet to the levels of public access television.
Seeing as how you want a GOOD product, you better get through your skull that this quality comes at a price. - moiety, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is actually pretty nifty. Biased or not, I enjoy watching CNN even as I take most of what is said with a grain of salt. Regardless, I hope more networks follow suite, I love to see maintstream elements finally seeing the usefulness of these "new" technologies.
- Sofa_King_Jank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any recommendations on so-called "site lists" for viewing this content? I don't know what is free any longer and more importantly not certain what sites are legit... it would be great to see a posting on how to use bittorrent to replace your cable service.
- cheese06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ KAMIZU
lol u get ur news from AP and reuters right? well friggin, every mainstream media outlet relies on AP and reuters for their information so in essence you'd doubt the integrity of ap/reuters as well then.
forget CNN, its all about foxnews and drudge report. and conservative blogs! - cyran0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sweet, now I can install the CNN Pipeline Downloadable Player!
Remember the good old days when the only crap players used to be Real? Now we'll be able to have one for every channel! - kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2CNN (and FOX) is/are biased as hell. what the hell kinda news organisation makes every headline sound like the theme to a war movie? at any moment i'm expecting harrison ford, bruce willis or sean connery to appear in one of their reports. i'm sticking with BBC, AP and Reuters, thank you...
- CableCarrier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Fox, maybe.
CNN, no thanks."
If I wanted biased information and blowhard anchors, maybe Fox. But pretty much every news outlet is screwed in the head anyway. - xianx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Uhh canceling cable to save money to then turn around and pay for this?
- chromogenic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1their "entree"? surely you mean their entry. it's not dinner.
- cmcarson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very interesting.... now just give me ESPN and i'll never buy cable again.
- n3tw0rk@dm!n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I DID cancel my cable to rely exclusively on bittorrent. How did you know? Are you spying on me?
- Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What I find useful about this is that the four feeds are all live and presented in broadband quality video. Most of the feeds are also usually raw which means they're presented without any biased commentary. While it's not free, $25/year for 24 hours a day of 4 live high-quality news feeds doesn't seem too expensive to me. I'm guessing that by this time next year, there will be at least 1 or 2 free, open offerings similar to this - maybe Google Pipeline?
- dinki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"i'm sticking with BBC, AP and Reuters, thank you..."
And you think that bunch isn't biased? - en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Alright, way to go CNN! I'll be adding this to my site list tonight.
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http://virtenu.com - Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I imagine they're "losing viewers to Fox" only because more of their viewers are starting to get their news from lots of different sources (which is why I stopped going to them, for instance) while more idiots who never watched news at all before are watching Fox because it's entertaining.
Fox is "news" like WWF Wrestling is a "sport." - Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want EVERYTHING Pipeline!! Maybe 5 years till every network has an offering like this. I predict ESPN or CNNSi (more likely) pipeline with raw sports feeds (no anchors or commentary) for $5/month by the end of next year.
- Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why do all you guys want "neutral" news? I can't even begin to imagine what that would be. Just watch more than one source with a critical eye and realize that you're only seeing what the powers-that-be wish for you to see. Then read blogs, especially people who report on local happenings, etc and you will begin to see a full picture.
Fox News is horribly biased, but I'm grateful for their slant because sometimes they will cover factual things that CNN won't because of said slant. Like someone else said, just remember that they're selling a product. - SyDIGG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You might think Fox News sux but hey, over twice the number of people say they sux less than CNN.
- Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You don't have to ask, because I said right in the post you replied to. I used to browse CNN's headlines, and I've now moved away from that (partially because of bias) and aggregate news from Google News, AP, BBC, and some blogs on the left and right as warranted.
They'd tune to Fox for entertainment because that's what Fox is. A network that puts Ann Coulter on as a serious commentator is not a news channel, I'm sorry. - Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I did mean what I said though about why I think the networks are gaining and losing popularity. I honestly would put stakes on there being a lot of people who used to watch CNN but now just use the 'net because it's quicker and much more accurate, while a large segment of the population who never would have turned on a "stuffy, elitist" network like CNN when they sit down to dinner might find Hannity and Colmes (*shudder*) much more palatable.
- aresef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh, just today in my AP Government class we were talking about the media and came to the conclusion all news organizations, even NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN, are biased in some way, and the corporate-owned, competition-driven mainstream media only reports what sells, what people want to hear, rather than what they need to hear. Anyway, yeah, this is cool, but I'd rather not pay for it. If I ever decide to dive into this sort of thing, it'll be via whatever's free.
And Faux News still sucks. - ericd543, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am going to give it a try. (thanks for the info fantt)
- juanitaWinters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So is this something everyone would be more willing to use if it were interspersed with ads? CNN has gotta pay for this thing somehow. Does CNN just throw your national feeds up there instead? Say CNN, Headline News, CNNfn, and maybe newsource all with 3 minute commercial breaks?
- ericd543, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This just might work if I could get my favorite channels for $2 per month without paying the cable compnay for all those channels I DON'T want.
- Lost_Packet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Is anyone else able to get it to work with Firefox 1.5 ? If I have to switch back over to IE every time NO SELL!
- swight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0C'mon, someone gotta have a coupon code!
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0BBC turned the word "terrorist" into "Misguided Criminals"... and you think they are not biased? As stated in other comments, 90% of the news from Fox and CNN are from AP and Reuters... and you think they are not biased? People are stupid.
- Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0On the one hand, at least it isn't FOX. On the other hand, it's CNN.
As others have said, the only way to get any idea of what's actually going on is to aggregate several news sources yourself and sort it out. Everybody's got a bias, but FOX is about the worst in terms of flapping their balls in the wind. So to speak. CNN might be a little better on some days, and as bad on other days. - pythro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Fox is a piece of ***** right wing bullhorn owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch. All they can do is follow CNN leads, which (biased or not) is the world's true news leader. CNN is available in 210 countries and terrorities... how many people actually watch Fox News outside middle America? Go figure."
Check this link, it has a list of all the tv providers that carry fox news outside the US http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77537,00.html - m1k372, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Go here for free streaming TV:
http://wwitv.com/ - TailGater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Not free?
no digg! - rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If it is on television, it isn't news. It is entertainment. Now, being able to read articles from newspapers all over the world with just a few clicks on my mouse... now that is what I call news. Unfiltered... digg it.
- celticeric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I've noticed that streaming video is already free from the BBC. However, I've only been able to get it to work when using Ubuntu. When I'm logged in on Windows XP, it's not free. Hmmm....
- kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0bbc does it for free
- SyDIGG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0kdehead ...you get a grip. Judging from your language, you must be a left leaning liberal. Don't pretend to be neutral and have the higher moral ground to judge what is news and what isn't. When it comes to bias, the BBC is as worst as any news organization out there.
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