TechTV Reborn as 'UndoTV'

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:43 AM EDT

Article Source: Wired News

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TechTV is back. Sort of.

Two former show hosts at the defunct cable and satellite channel, Chris Pirillo and Leo Laporte, recently floated the idea of a TechTV Reunion that would let alumni of the popular (to geeks anyway) station post new video clips at a centralized location. The idea drew raves on the popular web news site Digg, launched by TechTV alum Kevin Rose.

Now a new website is the wings that would do just that: UndoTV. Pirillo announced late Monday that he has registered UndoTV.com and several other variations as the lynchpin of an experimental show using the web to share video clips produced by the once-thriving TechTV community.

"We're undoing TechTV's untimely and unwarranted demise," Pirillo wrote in an e-mail to Wired News.

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DanjoHart

Don't really know what to think of this.
I will say that I did recently purchase one of my first tv shows and watched it via ITunes.
The quality was not great.. my stereo studio monitors mixed with my cable connection actually could have handled whatever they threw at me. But alas they pry had to deliver a compromised quality.

Would be great if the quality was not compromised or the used the BEST video compression.

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#1 - Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:23 PM EDT

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merrydeath

I think it is interesting that this is at least the fourth time this article has been seeded from the same source (wired) and yet has just now made it to the front page.

Also, I think it's pretty cool for these guys to be doing something else to re-visit the TechTV glory. I am looking forward to how they could do some of the more interactive/participatory stuff that TechTV did. It could be very cool.

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1 vote

#2 - Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:31 PM EDT

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Aine MacDermot

Yeah, I never got the red "warning" thing on the seed window, so I didn't know it was a duplicate when I seeded it. I've been reading elsewhere that others are experiencing the same thing with their seeds, too.

TechTV was something that I actually watched on a regular basis, but now that it's G4 (?), I don't tune in hardly ever, and I don't much like the programming line-up the way it is now. The whole network seems to be mainly geared to gamers, not really computer enthusiasts. In some cases there are overlaps, but I'm more into computers than games these days.

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1 vote

#3 - Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:03 PM EDT

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merrydeath

I haven't watched the new channel since the switch either but I credit TechTV with bringing me into the tech conversation -- or at least letting me know there was a conversation that would help me learn instead of making me feel stupid. Now I am a big fan of twit.tv and other related shows. I am curious to see how Undo will be different from the others but the old school techtv folks are enough for me to give it a chance.

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1 vote

#4 - Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:40 PM EDT

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