The Scene is an IPTV show about the underground movie pirating circle called…wait for it…The Scene. Its an interesting show for two reasons, the subject matter (which gives me a hard flashback to my freshman year in college when I was really into the movie trading) and the way the show is presented. Each episode is shown as a continuous screen capture with a in-set video feed of the main character of that episode. The story if moved partially via the dialog from the video inset, but the most of it is driven by the chats (ICQ, AIM and IRC) going on between the characters. I realize it sounds about as much fun as slamming your penis (or a boob…for lady readers) is a desk drawer the way I just described it, but its really way nicer than having you penis (boob) slammed in a desk drawer. I guess you’ll just have to trust me, or you can watch the first couple episodes and see for yourself. Either way, I would still advise you to not try slamming your penis in a desk drawer. Although I’m not sure what it feels like to have a boob slammed in a desk drawer, I guess I would advise against that too…unless it you are going to do it naked with that hot friend of yours, then feel free to tape it and send it this way.

Link: The Scene

DTV allows you to subscribe to any video RSS feed or channel and have the next video automatically downloaded ready for you when you are ready for it. So what, iTunes can do that too right? Well DTV also has a lovely “Channel Guide”, it has expiration dates for all of its video (read: self-cleaning), and all kinds of features that aren’t quite ready for prime time yet. But the best thing is possibly its simplest: Its completely open. Meaning, you can look at the source code, you can make your own “channel” and do pretty much anything else you can think of.

For the moment, the only beta out there is the mac version, but they say a windows version will be out in a few weeks. If you are lucky and have a mac (10.3 or higher) go get this a play with it because it rocks. If you only have windows, then sit back watch TV or start working out and hoarding can goods for the coming apocalypse brought on by the gradual warming of earth, thus allowing the aliens to free themselves from their icy prisons. But in a few weeks you can stop that and have fun with DTV.