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Broadband TV service launched by AOL
By Larry Hendrick | March 17, 2006
Pinky and the Brain available at no cost, but time. AOL has finally launched their much publicized service with some great shows to watch. Thirty shows are ready for your viewing pleasure, and will increase to more on the way.
If you miss ’70s television for the family humor, and the classic laugh tracks, you’ll love AOL for this.
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Sisters, Alice, Pinky and the Brain and The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. can’t be seen on DVD yet. But they can be seen on your Windows computer.
AOL launched its long-hyped In2TV service (television.aol.com/in2tv) this week, streaming full episodes of vintage TV series from its corporate sibling Warner Bros. studio over broadband connections. Ten episodes each of 30 shows went up for the launch, totaling 300 choices, with 14,000 promised by year’s end.
Commercials are part of the free-viewing bargain, but they’re a fairly fast affair, each show preceded by 15-second spots of dancing potato chips or 30-second auto ads. Sorry, they can’t be outsmarted — fast-forward is disabled during the spots. At other times, rewind, pause and instant-access make viewing convenient.
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