Almost like a free DVR

If you record programs on your VCR or DVR a lot, do yourself a favor and sign up to get onto the beta testing for RedLasso. It is a bold new experiment in online video. The service has many content providers, from BBC America to MSNBC, who provide full hours of their on-air coverage to web users for a short while after broadcast. The idea is, I think, that you can go in and make a clip from the program you liked and share it with everyone. Or, I guess, you can just watch the full hour on the site! (You still get all the commercials, so it's not as convenient as traditional online viewing)

Content providers currently are: BBC America, Bloomberg, Comedy Central, C-SPAN, C-SPAN2, CNBC, CNBC World, CNN, CNN Headline News, CSTV, MSNBC, E!, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, FOX Business, FNC, Food Network, Univision, WABC7, WCBS2, WHY, WNBC4, MyFOX5. (And NPR radio, also.)

I created this clip from a random hour of BBC America that I clicked on. I've never watched Bargain Hunt, I've not even seen this episode. But RedLasso makes it so easy to create a clip to embed that I was able to do it 'blindly.'

RedLasso even has the local NYC channels, so if you miss Ugly Betty, you can watch it on RedLasso for a short while after it has aired. Too cool.