The Problem with Internet Television (IPTV) Shows

Ever since the launching of This Week in Tech nearly a year ago now, it seems like a new IPTV technology show has been popping up on a weekly basis. Just to name a few, now we have TWiT, Security Now, Daily Giz Wiz, Macbreak, Inside the Net, DLTV, Hak.5, Command N, Systm, Diggnation, The Broken, Infected, indigital, Geekdrome. I'm sure there are dozens more in which I've neglected to mention. The market is flooded. There's just way too much stuff out there, and no one with anything important going on their life has time to watch all of these shows. Eventually, there has to be some srot of falling out.

Some of the new stuff that is coming out, is just terrible. I recently watched a pilot for a show called 'Cranky Geeks' brought forth by the folks from DLTV and ZD. It features John C. Dvorak and three guests and they talk about the issues of the day. It's been done, John C Dvorak had a show called "Silicon Spin" with the exact same format on television, and it of course is no longer there. The production of 'Cranky Geeks' is just terrible, There was literally no set to speak of, and the production graphics were just crap. The hosts discussed topics we've all heard before, with no real new insight. Predators on My Space? No one's heard discussion about -that- before. What's the point?