Videos (Megavideo in particular)

I have a theory that, the more popular a show/episode, the more links and more possibility of watching it. However, if the show when the show starts, if it doesn't get enough publicity, there is next to no links at all. If it gets popular enough later on, more links can appear but for a show like the Big Bang Theory, that has not happened yet.

If you look at the first episode, there are three links. One which says there is an internet connection problem, one which is Amazon, and only works in the USA and the iTunes which also only works in the USA. There are many useless links in TV show episodes, which require you to be in the USA or to have another version of a player.

So in the end, there are four options for watching a show. There is Youku which usually works but takes a while to load, is somewhat difficult to find and sometimes jut stops the loading in the middle or, mysteriously, always at an important bit. Tudou which, while it loads faster, has a smaller screen and blurs if you click fullscreen. The random websites which work and Megavideo which has always helped us in the past but now threatens to let us completely down.

If you have not been on for quite a long time, you will find that Megavideo will let you watch the show or any other sshow it has. But after 72 minutes, it will stop and won't show you where you were up to or the time. Instead a box appears on the screen telling you that you have watched 72 minutes and you must wait 30 minutes or create an account which you pay for, every month. After a while it will get longer.

Though this could be useful for stopping people spend all their living hours watching television online, it is extremely annoying if you are watching a movie or you haven't been on all day and 8 or so minutes into a show, it stops because another person in your family has been watching their favourite show as well.

So this is not only a rant about the unfairness of technology which shows the shows you want to watch at times when you CAN'T watch it and the internet or your location doesn't allow you to see it instead, but a cry for someone, who has 'great knowledge' of the internet and can get more, workable, links up so us normal people can sit back, relax and watch something for once.

Seriously, someone do us all a favour and go to the head of Megavideo, take out a gun and shoot him in the foot as an example of how much pain we are in without our videos, to show him how it feels for us not to be able to watch those wonderful shows like The Office, Bones, House, Pushing Daisies and the Big Bang Theory. Either that or get more Youku and Tudou links up for us.