youtube and hulu

For my youtube clips i decided to go with my timeless classic method of passing time and watch some nba/college/HS dunk montages. There's really nothing more entertaining than seeing people repeatedly make feeble attempts to block shots and then get embarrassed time and time again, it's hilarious. Also as a 5'11" guy of average athletic ability, I will most likely never come close to accomplishing these feats; so I am forced to live vicariously through youtube. As for the videos themselves common themes were: shaky cameras, varying quality (HS vids being the worst to official NBA videos that could be viewed in HD), and mostly homemade graphics (once again the official NBA videos being the exception. The variety displays the wide range of contributions to youtube from the local HS kid showing off the skills of a classmate via a homemade highlight package to the HD quality, edited, slow motions, epics that the NBA puts out. This just goes to show how the internet does help create a participatory culture that anyone can contribute to and get their message out, even the message is as simple as marquis mason is a beast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR0YpWh5m68 had to shout a fellow east alum)

In an effort to keep a similar theme i searched "basketball" on hulu to see what sort of results would show up. After sifting through about 3 straight pages of "Basketball Wives" episodes I finally arrived at a few clips of one of my favorite dumb comedies, BASEketball. If you are not familiar and can laugh at stupidity, i would suggest checking it out. To my disappointment i could not watch the movie in it's entirety but in the form of 1-5 min clips of scenes that hulu deemed as "classic." This was the main difference between youtube and hulu, in this case, after watching a couple clips i went back to youtube out of curiosity to see what a BASEketball search would turn up, there were pages of clips, outtakes, trailers and even reviews. With the ability for users to upload videos i had endless information/clips at my fingertips versus the NBC run hulu which only had 8 clips that they could get the rights to. However, the video quality on hulu is much better and having to sit through a few 15 second ads is usually worth it to watch a full television program on demand in HD quality. That is, unless you're bored and craving some dunk montages, not basketball wives