What's wrong with online videos?
Inspired by the launch of Bud.tv, I took a quick tour of what is available in online videos. And the results are a frustrating mix, to say the least. It’s certainly more complicated than the video programming I can get from my DirecTV dish. I don’t understand how a normal person is expected to make this technology work. After looking at a couple of video sites, I came up with eight different problems: First of all, my expectation is to be as close to the YouTube user experience as possible – you search for the video content on the home page, click on what you want, and the video starts playing within the existing browser frame. I don’t want to download any special media player, thank you very much, I already have a ton of them running on my hard drive. I don’t want to go looking for the video either; It should be easy to find whatever you want to see. Second, it should work with my setup. I don’t want any secondary windows to appear, because I may...