Mark took the time to send me a press release a day or so ago from the ABC Family marketing team regarding view2gether.com, an “Online Viewing Platform” for ABC Family shows. Apparently fans of a television show on the network called “Greek” (yes your guess is as good as mine) will be able to log on to the view2gether website and host online “Viewing Parties” where they can watch and discuss their favorite episodes through a synched up online streaming platform. Just like watching Television with a bunch of friends at your house, except not on your television, and no where near any of your friends.
Now don't get me wrong, viewing parties are fun and all. The Oscar viewing party was like being a part of an MST3k Episode when i went. But i much preferred the idea Sony put in motion with their Home software. See, supposedly at some point in the lifetime of Home, any media content you have saved to the PLAYSTATION 3 (yes, that is the way you write it) hard drive can be queued up and streamed to your friends via your personal space big screen. You and your friends’ avatars then can sit, press a button, and bring the movie up full screen for everyone in the party. Now thats a cool idea. It creates some sort of normality in a virtual world environment.
Now considering that this is ABC Family using the platform, i highly doubt any shenanigans on the level of say, AICN’s Talkbacks, but quite simply its a chat room with a video that plays at the same interval for all people in the room….which is not necessarily the coolest thing since sliced bread. Time will tell if this website ends up working out. Maybe if they get some more shows available other than “ABC Family’s Hit Show Greeks!” (their words, not mine), then this just might have a chance.
-Jon
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