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South Park is a really great example of how to do online television from a user's perspective.

1. They are really good about getting episodes up quickly.

2. It's high quality.

3. Episodes are never taken down.

4. It's ad free.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/

Now granted it doesn't deal with big media's concerns. It's not set up to make money. There are no ads, and the show archive is great, so it could be argued that it removes incentive to by season dvds. think Matt Stone and Troy Parker might be making a little money because of it, but it's from product sales, not from ads.



Hmm, last time I watched it, they had ads.

I do agree that it's excellent that they don't take episodes down. If the episode isn't available online, I'm not going to go watch it on TV. Hulu could learn a lesson.


That model won't work for most shows though. Are you really going to buy a Jack Bauer action figure?


The only problem I have with southparkstudios.com is that it's not 'available' in my country (Australia)! Back to allsp.deltavid.com for me I guess.




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