The Flintstones Synopsis

The classic animated sitcom The Flintstones follows a prehistoric family and their experiences.

The family is composed of Fred Flintstone, his wife Wilma, their daughter Pebbles, and pet dinosaur Dino.

The Flintstones are joined by their neighbors, the Rubbles: Barney, Betty, and son Bamm-Bamm.

Watch The Flintstones online

• Watch The Flintstones on Amazon Video on Demand (US, all seasons, $1.99 per episode)
• Watch full episodes of The Flintstones on iTunes (US link, all seasons, $1.99 per episode)
• Watch The Flintstones on Fancast (US, select episodes only)
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It was only announced last week but the MSN Video Player has now gone live. Is it worth watching? How does it compare to the BBC iPlayer and Hulu? Read on for a full review of Microsoft’s online video streaming service.

Competition For BBC iPlayer

The online video streaming sector in the UK is suddenly exploding, perhaps fueled by the popularity of the BBC iPlayer or perhaps because online video has finally gone mainstream in a big way. The iPlayer continues to dominate but in the aftermath of the decision to quash Project Kangaroo, competition is increasing.

Arqiva has bought the technology behind Kangaroo and plans to use it to launch an online video streaming service within months. Then there is Hulu, the free premium video service in the States which has plans to move into other territories, with the UK being first on the agenda. Hulu UK is therefore likely to become a reality in a few months time.

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With the collapse of Project Kangaroo, I assumed online TV in the U.K. would be limited to the BBC iPlayer for a long while to come. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case, with the competition hotting up. The latest contender is Microsoft, which today launched its MSN Video Player.

The BBC iPlayer And…

The BBC iPlayer is a brilliant service, and one which I have used on a weekly basis since it first launched at the end of 2007. But, as good as it is, it is obviously limited to new episodes of BBC shows. And competition is always good.

That’s the view the Competition Commission took when it ordered Project Kangaroo, a joint project between the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, to be shut down before it had even got started. And the decision left British viewers with little choice in the online video market.

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What would be better than watching TV shows and movies on Hulu sat at your computer? Watching it fro your couch of course. Boxee once offered such an option until Hulu decided to take its ball and go home. The reasons for that decision now become clear.

Hu(ge)lu Success

Hulu has so far been a hugely successful foray into the online video market for NBC and News Corps. So successful in fact that Disney also wanted in, buying its way onto the service at the end of April. Hulu has attracted millions of viewers, advertisers aplenty, and is by all accounts building a more profitable service than Google is managing with YouTube.

Hulu has managed all this by offering premium content for free, supported by advertising, which can be played from within a browser. But from today there is now another option, with the Hulu Desktop application being released for Windows PCs and Apple Macs. Linux users are once again left out of the loop. No surprise there.

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Joost, once the darling of the burgeoning online video market, could be about to evolve into something altogether less exciting. There are reports that the company is shopping itself around to cable companies as being a possible ready-made online video solution.

An Exciting Launch

Joost launched in beta form (as The Venice Project) in 2006, and soon became one of the most-wanted apps by anyone interested in online video. One million people signed up to use the service within a year and then it finally launched at the end of 2007.

I remember those heady days when the invites to try out Joost were like gold-dust. Having finally got one, I tried the service out, was impressed with it, but had to stop using it due to it slowing down my computer a great deal. If there had been more quality programming available then maybe I would have persevered, but there wasn’t, so I got rid of the desktop app pretty quickly.

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The BBC iPlayer is constantly evolving to better suit the needs of its users. The latest innovation – high-definition programming, just one of a number of new improvements made to the service.

iPlayer = Awesomeness

The BBC iPlayer is already awesome. So much so that I’m sorry for people outside of the UK who aren’t given the chance to use the service without employing some proxy server shenanigans. Just think of it as payback for Hulu and all the other U.S.-based premium programming services off-limits to anyone who isn’t blessed enough to reside in the States.

As awesome as the iPlayer is, there is always room for improvement. And the BBC is great at keeping on top of new advances in technology and new ways of delivering and packaging television content. Which is why the iPlayer has now gone HD, and had a host of other improvements tacked on at the same time.

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It’s looking as though mobile television is going to grow exponentially over the next few years, with faster and more numerous connections, and more devices capable of streaming video. TV.com clearly wants in on the ground level, and has already started its push.

Hulu Vs. Joost Vs. TV.com

Hulu and Joost were once the two big online video portals battling it out for the hearts and minds of viewers. But Joost has fallen by the wayside of late, a victim of not having enough premium content regularly airing. The switch to being browser-based has helped, but not enough to keep it buzzworthy and in the news.

The new battle seems to be between Hulu and TV.com, a relatively new entry into he video portal market after evolving from being a more community-based affair. The two sites have traded blows recently, with Hulu removing its content from TV.com after the former realized the latter could be stiff competition.

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