My newest addictions

January 30, 2006 @ 10:51 pm · Posted by Sah · Filed under Friends, Television

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Ok, so those of you who know me well, know that I am a reality TV junkie. Recently my good friend Emily got me hooked on Project Runway. Now this is not the kind of show I would have been drawn to on my own as it is about a fashion design competition, but with Emily’s recommendation I gave it a try and now I am hooked. This in turn led me to my new love – the Podcast. Admittedly Aaron has been listening to various podcasts for sometime and recommended that I check them out, but I have never been a fan of talk radio…so I basically disregarded them. BUT, Project Runway has a weekly podcast and it provides all these details about an episode that you don’t get just watching the show. So now I’m wondering, why doesn’t every television show have a podcast?

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Aaron Said,

January 30, 2006 @ 11:15 pm

Cost is one thing, generally speaking. While it’s inexpensive to produce an audio podcast, it’s potentially much more expensive to produce a video podcast. If you look at the most popular podcasts at iTunes you’ll see a trend of video podcasts forming a larger and larger slice of the pie over time.

Another thing is DVD sales. Extras like deleted scenes, makings of, commentary, etc. have been hooks to get the fans of a show to buy the DVDs even though they’ve seen every episode. To offer those for free reduces the value of the DVDs.

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