And possibly some of the kids shows.

If there need to be commercials, keep it to one commercial per break and make sure that none of them repeat during the course of the program.

it plans to freely release a high-resolution version via peer-to-peer networks without any DRM restrictions.

Does high-resolution mean just larger than 320×240 iPod size, or HD as in 1920×1080?

1. Pick a better show. I have no interest in this one. I know they don’t want to cut into DVD sales of regular shows, but how about This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Rick Mercer Report, or something else that won’t be coming to DVD?

2. Release it the moment it finishes airing in the first time zone it airs in. Otherwise, someone’s going to beat you to it. The guy who captured the digital satellite stream will have it encoded and posted within hours of it airing (if anyone actually wants to watch it). You have the advantage CBC. You can have the file encoded and ready to go before it airs.

3. Try not to screw up the encoding. You don’t want the guy from suggestion 2 to release a PROPER that looks better at a smaller file size and the proper frame rate when you had the original source.

It’s like the CBC thought, “wha-? People liked watching it later after getting it through some sort of file-sharing thingy? Hmmm…let’s be pro-active about this. Let’s take one of our least-interesting upcoming shows, which no one outside Canada would ever bother with, and put it on this file-sharing thingy! No one downloads it, oh well, we tried…”

Weee, this will be fun.

It’s like the CBC thought… let’s take one of our least-interesting upcoming shows, which no one outside Canada would ever bother with, and put it on this file-sharing thingy!

Why should the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) care if anyone outside of Canada is interested? It’s not our fault that with 500 stations you can’t find anything to watch. Fox must have SOMETHING on for you… of wait, they already canceled to good stuff :)

To answer some questions, we’ll be releasing 2 torrents, one iPod quality and another high-rez avi. The original show isn’t HD, so the torrent isn’t either.

We’re glad to hear people want other shows this way! Please give us your suggestions. We can’t make all shows magically be available this way, but hopefully the interest will resonate with other departments (and maybe other broadcasters?) and they’ll see that you guys want this.

If the CBC produces it or has the Canadian distribution rights, get it out there. The reality is that most of the good stuff gets torrented anyways. So take control of the distribution. Get better mind share and find a way to make a few $s off of it.

2) Cut out the commercials. The pirate versions will not have commercials, so unless you want the pirate version to be better, cut them out.

2) Cut out the commercials. The pirate versions will not have commercials, so unless you want the pirate version to be better, cut them out.

i lived and went to school in ottawa for two years and became addicted to some CBC shows. i’m happy i’ll be able to watch cnpm, a girl i know is in the race

:)

/Broken down horseplayer

First off I’d like to say THANK YOU for taking the time to comment on this thread and read responses. It’s really cool to know that someone from inside the CBC is paying attention!

Secondly, I’d LOVE to see The World At 6:00 torrented. I listen to CBC Radio podcasts and live broadcasts via the web, but I don’t own a TV and don’t particularly want to. Hearing someone pitch a segment on an interesting news item on the radio that I’ll have to follow up on TV is frustrating. It’s 10x as frustrating when it’s part of a news series that’s playing out on morning radio, afternoon radio, and on TV (the day-long or week-long special in-depth coverage of a news issue, such as health care, for instance).

Alternately, rebroadcasting the 6:00 news as an audio-only podcast would be acceptable – the TV news usually doesn’t actually require much in the way of an eye on the TV to follow.

Thanks to everybody for their comments & suggestions so far. We hope we’ll get to do this more, so your input is valuable so we can show the community wants it.

jPOD. It has a huge following on the net already (not enough at the TV set unfortunately, I guess).

They gave it barely 3 months to build an audience, meanwhile it’s on the tip of going viral online.

It will be Canada’s Arrested Development for sure.