See the November 2009 Update.

What is Ethernet TV?

One day, Ethernet TV will become the definitive portal through which you will find instant access to any television station, anywhere on the planet, any time, from any web enabled device.

Until then, it is a simple human filter applied to the rapidly expanding universe of video content — streaming, archived, viral, podcasts, etc. — on the internet. While you can find all kinds of video content on all kinds of sites, our hope is that you will find the content on Ethernet TV of particular interest and merit and that over time you will come to visit us as a trusted content filter.

Why do I need this site, anyway?

Technically, you don’t need this site at all. You could sift through and find all this content on YouTube, GoogleVideo, DailyMotion, C-SPAN, NASA, and all the other sites. The experiment here is in providing a human filter for the TRILLIONS of videos on all those sites. If you like the subset of stuff we provide, maybe you’ll come back. On the other hand, if you are the type who prefers constant direct overexposure to the escalating onslaught provided by all those raw content repositories, then you may be the kind of person we’d like to have contribute at Ethernet TV.

How do I watch TV and videos?

Before ELA became hopelessly broken after a flurry of recent WordPress security updates, you used to be able to:
  1. Click on Channels, Date, or Tags.
  2. Click a topic in the Navigation Cloud.
  3. Select from the resulting list.

ELA is a BETA product, which too many people don’t seem to understand, so I’m not too worried about it. In the meantime, the site is limited to the dynamic search and horizontal scrollbar for navigation. Maybe I’ll look for other workarounds later, or feel free to send me any great WordPress plugin ideas that accomplish the same thing as ELA.

How much does it cost?

Ethernet TV is free to the viewer. However, to keep it that way, please be sure to click to visit our advertisers from time to time. Thank you for watching.

When I click on a channel, the videos do not load.

When you click on a channel, the result is a list of posts in that channel. Click on an item in the Results List to view any specific video source or site in the channel list.

Couldn’t you make the site easier to navigate?

Yep. Probably so. This is a very, very, very, early stage experiment using WordPress for something other than what it is designed to do. As interest and visitor traffic justify the investment, the site design will be updated and navigation will become better; perhaps more like an evolved version of this, or this, on the way to morphing into something like JumpTV + Hulu + Link TV + Fancast, etc. Or, it could all just blow away like 99.999% of such experimental sites. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth trying.