PBS Leading the Way

In yet another wave in the coming sea of change for television and other content, PBS will unveil a TV series called NerdTV obtainable ONLY via the web. You'll be able to download and watch it at your own convenience. Far out! They claim to be the first major broadcaster to do this. I think it's true. The BBC was going to do something akin to this a while back, but I don't think it's materialized yet. The BBC does have their VideoNation site which has tons of little clips (in RealPlayer format, yuck!) so that's kinda nice. But we want the downloadable stuff!

The guys at Rev3 have it absolutely right with their awesome geekery and downloadable shows. The best guys from the old days of TechTV (now gobbled up by G4TV) have banded together to make some cool shows like Systm and thebroken.

At any rate, kudos to PBS for making the leap. Link.