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David, wanna talk about Seeso shutting down? I'm more interested in VRV, which is picking up a number of the originals.

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Aug 9 '17, 19:51

Seeso was a stupid idea from NBC from the word "go". If they had called it NBC Direct or something similar, they would have done better.

I'm baffled by VRV, though. Can't figure out what it is. It's picked up a number of the Seeso shows including, oddly, "My Brother, My Brother, and Me", which is just a podcast, so I guess it's the video version of the podcast? And VRV also carries Geek & Sundry, Crunchyroll, Tested, Roostertooth, Nerdist, Machinima, RiffTrax... They don't *own* these shows. A number of them are free on YouTube. I frankly don't know what VRV is. But moving a show from one obscure distributor with no name recognition to another distributor with no name recognition.

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A bit more about VRV... - Mop Aug 9, 21:43
I'm only vaguely aware of Seeso. I saw a weird news item recently where Dan Harmon's show got bought/delayed the *day before* the season started. -- (edited) - David Aug 9, 20:02 5
- I think industry people knew about it a long time ago. John Hodgman mentioned something about 'the late, lamented SeeSo' like two months ago. - mafic Aug 9, 21:11 1
  - Looks like things fell apart in May when the president left the company and layoffs followed in June. -- (link) - Mop Aug 9, 21:51
- I found this about VRV and it gives me the impression even they don't know what they are. - Mop Aug 9, 20:15 2
  - There's this thing in Ready Player One where the players host their own channels. - David Aug 9, 20:31 1
    - Pivot of my own: these tiny networks creating original content is hurting the content and the creators. Case in point... - Mop Aug 9, 21:25

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