Sony Pictures movies & TV shows pop up on YouTube
By Richard Lawler 
posted Apr 16th 2009 9:45PM
posted Apr 16th 2009 9:45PM
Filling a hole for premium quality content, Sony and YouTube have worked out a deal, with full length movies and TV shows popping up on the Crackle channel today. Right now Cliffhanger has top billing, and we're not seeing anything in HD yet, but hey, it's all free and unlike, for example, Hulu, will play on about a billion different platforms. Don't expect this to be the end either, word is the streaming service has signed up other studios as well but no word on which ones.
Billions? Hum.. dunno, I'm in Canada and can't watch squat because of "location restriction"
Don't work on iPhone.
Is it just my imagination .... or did these guys do an analog rip of some show? Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kiLlJujgI you can clearly see the "DVD Video" OSD in the top right corner on playback.
Streaming Sucks. Period.
"We are unable to show you the original featured video for this channel due to age or location restrictions."
Exactly what I wanted!
I've watched some stuff on Crackle and one thing I liked, unless I remember incorrectly, is that it didn't have any commercials inserted in, like Hulu does.
Video quality was pretty good, though my laptop can't handle the "HD" version at a proper framerate. Not sure if it's the processor or the fact that it's streaming over wi-fi.
Anyway, they have some good movies, at good quality, uncut, for free (and legal, I might add). How can anyone complain about that?