So I was scrolling through my program guide (nothing on DVR or VOD or iPod) and I punched up Current. You know, the Al Gore cable channel that launched with much hype and has sort of slipped into obscurity. It was in the 8 p.m. (PST) hour, when Current was airing its VC2 (viewer contributed content) block, and I couldn’t turn it off. Perhaps it’s because I’m sick of all the crap that’s surfacing on YouTube lately, but the viewer-submitted “pods” were extremely well done and very entertaining. Anyway, Current has received a fair amount of criticism for missing the user-created video wave on the web (yes, their website needs to be video-forward instead of TV-forward), but the VC2 segments I saw were a welcome relief from the video clutter on the web.
During each pod (which last 2-6 minutes or so), a little bar appears in the bottom left, just like a video player on the web, which illustrates how much time is left. Cool.
