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PBS Video Answers Your Questions
The PBS online video portal features on-demand streaming of shows like “Tavis Smiley,” “Masterpiece,” “The NewsHour,” and “The Ascent of Money.” New shows and features are added all the time to make your viewing experience better. Last week, we asked you to submit your questions about the video portal and what you can expect to see in the future. Eric Freeland, Senior Manager, Digital Video Content answered your questions (in video form, of course).
I was wondering if there were show specific RSS feeds available. I use Google Reader all the time and was hoping to be alerted to new programs/episodes through that.” Mike
I enjoy the video player very much. I watch American Experience when there are new episodes, Time Team America, History Detectives, Nova, Frontline, and Masterpiece Mystery!. I also enjoyed The Ascent of Money. The only thing I would suggest would be to provide a captioning option like Nova, because sometimes the only way I can really hear the shows is with headphones (which I don't like to wear) and captioning would be very beneficial to me and other folks with hearing problems.” Ashley Kolka
“I would love to see more of your "Classic" programs available online…That being stated, I would love to have access to old Children's Programming from the 1970's and 1980's (I am a Kindergarten Teacher in Astoria Queens, NY): Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One TV, Tomes and Talismans, among others. Although somewhat dated, these programs can still be of use to an Elementary and/or Middle-School audience. Programs like Newton's Apple and Innovation from the 1980's, as well as old episodes of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour would help to add insight to the current debate over our changing times.” Jose Vila
“My family recently had to move to Germany and we miss our favorite PBS shows. Why can't we see the videos outside of the U.S.?” Jack
“Would LOVE to have programs like "Live from Lincoln Center", "From the Top" and other live performances available as well! Some of these amazing concerts are geographically and financially unavailable to some people. It would also be a great resource for struggle music teachers in our public school everywhere!” Stevi
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Wow Eric,
Can't say how tickled I was to see you personally answer my question. This is what makes PBS great. Thank You!
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Love the video responses, bravo! :)
Season I
I was trying to interest my mother in the Mystery series by watching Lewis and Hathaway with her. The episodes were impossible to hear over the music. She was not impressed. I persevered and watched the newest show Sunday night (August 30, 2009) and was delighted to note the music was where it should be, in the background. No drowning out the lines and could hear the actual words. Thank you very much!
wow... irony.
Seriously? Did you just post a video-answer about providing captions, and NOT CAPTION THAT VIDEO?
Lol. I mean, I understand it's tough to ask your assistant to figure out Youtube Annotation to put up a little transcript on the video. Or maybe a text transcript on this site under the video. But deep down, I know you care about people who can't hear who really need the captions.
I'm trying hard to understand why it is so difficult to just preserve the captions as they are embedded in the TV broadcast and get the online video player to enable them. Hulu does it; abc/nbc/cnet provide captioned streams on their sites. If you caption it for PBS TV, 90% of the work is done for you.
Indeed.
Yeah, that's a special kind of fail right there. That could've been answered with a *text* response.