Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)
03-24-08 | 01:25 PM
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Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)
Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios. What they get right: Streams are fast and vid quality is solid; every episode, from first to most recent is available (with one exception); and newer ones are uncensored. Yep, you actually get to hear your favorite childrens scream "What the fuck is going on?" in the Britney ep. Major point of suck: ads.
They're mercifully short, but you get hit with about three per episode (marked by the little white lines in the timeline), though you have a limited ability to jump around the ep to sorta avoid them. Still, they're less intrusive than the pop-ups that assault you at AllSP.com or the like. Which is probably a big part of why they're doing this—the online audience for South Park is huge, with lots of sites streaming eps and major torrent traffic. So why not get a slice of that ad revenue?
Ads are going to be a part of any free TV online equation, unfortunately. So are rights issues—for some reason the Britney ep is already available, but the first episode of the current season won't be up until April. WTF? But all in all, they get it as right as an official channel can for the time being, which looks startlingly like a glimpse at the future of TV. Update: Another reason living in Canada sucks: No access for Canadians.
They're mercifully short, but you get hit with about three per episode (marked by the little white lines in the timeline), though you have a limited ability to jump around the ep to sorta avoid them. Still, they're less intrusive than the pop-ups that assault you at AllSP.com or the like. Which is probably a big part of why they're doing this—the online audience for South Park is huge, with lots of sites streaming eps and major torrent traffic. So why not get a slice of that ad revenue?
Ads are going to be a part of any free TV online equation, unfortunately. So are rights issues—for some reason the Britney ep is already available, but the first episode of the current season won't be up until April. WTF? But all in all, they get it as right as an official channel can for the time being, which looks startlingly like a glimpse at the future of TV. Update: Another reason living in Canada sucks: No access for Canadians.
03-24-08 | 01:42 PM
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I have yet to ever watch any of these shows 'streamed'. I'm much rather just wait for the DVD or torrent the episode which can be played in dozens of devices I own. Curious about the uncut episodes though.
03-24-08 | 02:14 PM
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Sweet! I just gave it a shot as well, and it was very smooth. I didn't have a single problem except when they have the "commercial" cuts. There were no actual commercials though.
03-24-08 | 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by mike7162
Anyone know the episode that won't be streamed?
03-24-08 | 08:39 PM
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Pretty awesome. I've never plunged in and bought any of the SP season sets. Pointless for me since I've seen all the eps multiple times and the show is syndicated so much that I end up catching 5-6 episodes a week anyway. Now that they're streaming I'll be able to catch up on episodes that I missed or just random ones that I may be in the mood to watch.
03-25-08 | 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Chaza
Episode 501 Scott Tenorman, isn't on there either.
03-27-08 | 07:32 AM
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I figured something like this would creep up:
"Due to continuing contractual obligations, all new episodes will be available online for 7 days after they premiere on Comedy Central. These episodes will return permanently to the site 30 days after they air."
"Due to continuing contractual obligations, all new episodes will be available online for 7 days after they premiere on Comedy Central. These episodes will return permanently to the site 30 days after they air."
