Looks like they’re finally catching on…

Some highly anticipated Web sites are being modeled on making the experience of watching video online more like watching television. These sites rely on software that enlarges the interface so that it fills your computer screen X from edge to edge.

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“The early stages of video content on the Internet was a lot of user-generated stuff, stuff like my grandmother and her cat,” said Joost chief executive officer Mike Volpi. “What we’re trying to do is evolve that experience into something that the viewer doesn’t view just out of interest, but actually builds an affinity with that particular programming content.”

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The Internet and television are increasingly being portrayed as on a collision course, the two destined to fuse within 10-20 years when TV could become just another form of high-speed data. But those visions remain relatively far in the future. Online video is still in its infancy, Shapiro said.

What revelations!

1. People prefer high-resolution, high quality video rather than tiny, blurry, postage stamp sized videos.

2. People prefer big-budget, high-production-value content rather than home videos.

3. Computers are just as capable of playing video in a TV-like fashion.

Sounds like they took a time machine into the future! What fucking year is it again? Where are our rocketpacks?