October 10, 2007

Social MST3K

We should be close to a time when I can watch a movie online with my friends who live in dif­fer­ent places. For exam­ple, if my friends in Florida, Indi­ana, and I all want to watch All About Eve, we should be able to stream it online and com­ment on it MST3K–style. Any­one know of an exist­ing ser­vice like this?

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3:53 pm Comments (13)

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  1. I don’t know about that, but have you seen Riff­trax? (http://www.rifftrax.com/) It’s basi­cally MST3K, but you just rent a DVD and buy an MP3 of the jokes. It’s even done by some of the MST3K cast!

    Comment by Robert D. — October 10, 2007 @ 5:29 pm

  2. One of the few use­ful things I’ve ever seen in Sec­ond Life was a weekly event where peo­ple watched short films together and typed their MST3K-style com­ments. I don’t know if they still do it or not, but it worked pretty well.

    Comment by MsMolly — October 10, 2007 @ 5:58 pm

  3. I don’t know of any­thing, but it sounds fun!

    There’s a rea­son I don’t go to the movies– I like talk­ing through them too much.

    Comment by Karin Dalziel — October 10, 2007 @ 7:28 pm

  4. In one of my nerdier moments, some friends and I used to do this for new episodes of Bat­tlestar Galac­tica. We’d all log into Xbox Live, put our head­sets on, jump into a group chat room, then change the chan­nel to Sci-Fi. We quickly learned that our var­i­ous cable sys­tems are a few sec­onds out of whack with each other, but over­all it worked pretty well :)

    Comment by Chad — October 10, 2007 @ 8:37 pm

  5. We Talk Dur­ing Movies:
    http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2007/10/we-talk-during-.html

    Comment by Wade — October 10, 2007 @ 8:45 pm

  6. I don’t know of any­thing, but it sounds fun!

    Comment by DEBT — October 11, 2007 @ 3:57 am

  7. What about using con­fer­enc­ing soft­ware like gotomeeting?

    Comment by Cathy — October 11, 2007 @ 5:54 am

  8. You could com­bine some­thing like

    http://www.freeconferencecall.com/

    With a VLC unicast :

    http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/VideoLAN-HOWTO.html#AEN492

    This would require that some­one in the group host the file locally (or at least on a com­puter run­ning VLC) (and there­fore prob­a­bly com­pressed a bit) and have a decent broad­band con­nec­tion (even then, obvi­ously there’s limitations.)

    Then have every­one use VoIP to call into the free con­fer­ence call you set up, and once everyone’s on, have every­one con­nect to the uni­cast (set to pause) and then when every­body is all good to go, start the movie.

    The advan­tage to a uni­cast is it’s only one source, so every­one is always at the same moment as every­one else in the movie (unlike Chad and his friends deal­ing with cable delays). And obvi­ously you could just call in with a speak­er­phone if you’d rather not use VoIP.

    Comment by kthejoker — October 11, 2007 @ 9:03 am

  9. A few years back, there was a group of fans of Joe Bob Briggs and his var­i­ous TV and cable movie shows — includ­ing the TNT Mon­ster­vi­sion show — who would gather in an Inter­net Relay Chat (IRC) room and all watch the same movie at the same time, whilst mak­ing snarky com­ments. Now *that* was fun!

    Also, there’s an MST3K group and weekly screen­ings in Sec­ond Life–

    From http://slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=90172

    Writ­ten by Ken­bro Utu:

    If you are an MST3K fan, then you need to get by Squeebee’s Mys­tery Sci­ence The­ater at Stargaz­ers, slurl below. We have even recre­ated the Satel­lite of Love. I cre­ated the spheres on either end. We still have yet to get the doors scripted. The the­ater is inside one of the spheres, and you can enter from the side right now, or go to the other end and walk through the satel­lite. Squee­bee did the script­ing for the player in the the­ater, and you can pick streams from a list. New­com­ers can click the screen to update the stream so all are watch­ing at the same place in the stream.

    http://slurl.com/secondlife/Star%20Gazers/201/47/23

    Comment by Valerie Hawkins — October 11, 2007 @ 10:48 am

  10. Sounds cool, but I just want a basic abil­ity for a Mac user to down­load a movie from Net­flix. Is that ask­ing too much!@!/

    Comment by Rhea — October 11, 2007 @ 10:58 am

  11. We gotta find a way to make this happen!

    Comment by K.G. Schneider — October 11, 2007 @ 6:33 pm

  12. Yes. This must be made to hap­pen. I com­mand it (oops, sorry, chan­nel­ing Pearl Forrester )

    Could twit­ter work?

    Comment by Booktender — October 15, 2007 @ 12:37 pm

  13. Dis­cover Satel­lite TV on PC!…

    Today, con­sumers live in a world where infor­ma­tion is read­ily avail­able. As an exam­ple, the tele­vi­sion is con­sid­ered to be the most effec­tive media tool used to deliver infor­ma­tion. The advent of satel­lite tele­vi­sion has even widened its reach, but you…

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