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After reading Kevin Rose's post, I started to think about this and realized that another thing where the app model would not be great is that in the end, nobody

After reading Kevin Rose's post, I started to think about this and realized that another thing where the app model would not be great is that in the end, nobody cares what network a program is on. The only thing that matters is the list of programs you like and want to watch. A user would want to see an aggregate of all the programs s/he likes, not go to one app to see what's new on ABC, and another for NBC… that's where the Google TV model is interesting I suppose. I'd think that something more like Google Reader (conceptually, not in terms of UI obviously) might be more fitting: a bunch of feeds for shows you like. You can "star" the ones you'll always want to keep around, let others disappear if too old… To be YC-centric, it seems that the recently-launched Teevox got that right by merging listings between Netflix and Hulu.

thwarted 16y ago
Agreed. That all three current Law and Order series are being shown on some combination of three different cable channels, and in syndication locally, shows that the network brand doesn't matter on a per-show basis. In fact, if it did, syndication wouldn't be successful at all. But we all still seem to be watching Cheers and Seinfeld.
theBobMcCormick 16y ago
Boxee does a good job with that. They've got apps with mostly map back to a particular website they're getting their streaming video from, but for TV shows and TV show like content, all the titles show up in a list of all TV shows. You can search and sort the list, or you can mark a particular series to be part of your "queue". Then new episodes of that series will always automatically appear in your "queue".