SmashingTelly sells out

March 8th, 2008 link to (permalink)

After much agonizing about it, I’ve decided (as some people might have noticed) that I will post clips on SmashingTelly. The reason I though a site about full length programs would work is that the practice of leaving low resolution full length documentaries would encourage people to buy DVDs (I have bought many of the things featured here), so it was a mutually beneficial practice.

That may become a de facto custom in future, but for now many links go dead too quickly. I will continue to post links to full format stuff that I find and have been up long enough that it looks like they are not being requested to get taken down, but will also link to clips. I will try to make the choices of clips be as interesting rather than gimmicky.

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3 responses so far »

Yansky : Mar 9, 2008 at 5:14 am

I could write a Python script for you that checks old videos on the site to see if they are dead.
Will : Mar 9, 2008 at 8:28 am

Hope it doesn’t change too much.

I have looked and there is a snippet on you-tube, but if you ever come across the original BBC TV version of The Hitch Hikers Guide, i’d love to see that.If you do requests.

Cheers.
Johnson : Mar 11, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Please do not delete the dead links if possible, they provide info about the video. Maybe you can include a purchase link to Amazon etc. for posted videos.