Rant: CWTV.com

Until last week I didn't have a TV, so anything I would watch was on the internet. This usually isn't bad. Yes the size of the screen is smaller, but the resolution is pretty good. You just cannot share it well with friends. I usually use hulu for most things, but there are some shoes that are not on hulu. Probably the only one I watch is Smallville.

Smallville has had it's ups and downs, and for the last three seasons I have only watched it because I had seen every one and it was supposed to end soon. (This is finally the final season.) Luckily this season and the last haven't been all that bad, even enjoyable, the only bad experience I am having with it now is watching it online.

CWTV.com has THE WORST video player online. Simply put I would never go there to find a new show to watch, it is not worth the hassle.

If you go to their site it looks just like it did about 5 years ago, when the internet wasn't very good. I am pretty sure there have been some improvements, because finally I don't have to use internet explorer anymore, chrome doesn't crash every other time like it used to.

My main problem now is how they set up advertisements. I know it is free to watch online so I shouldn't complain much, but for someone who is willing to sit through the commercials instead of just going to and illegal site cut me some slack. I have the problems with their ads that if they fixed them I would be happy. ONE: Tell me some kind of time frame. The there are usually 4 to 8 commercials between each section, I am okay with that, just let me know that there is actually hope that I will get to the show at some point rather that getting my hopes up and just having them slashed to the ground. TWO: If you have say 30 - 40 commercials per hour long program please diversify. I might be okay watching all 8 of those commercials if they weren't the same 8 in different orders every time. Stop trying to make me memorize the product even to hate it for the rest of my life. THREE: If I want to skip to the end, let me skip to the end. This might be the most annoying part. If you click somewhere near the end, instead of going where you click, it make you watch all of the commercials then just jumps one section. When you try again, same thing happens, so if I just want to watch the last minute of a show I have to wait threw the same 8 commercials about 6 times. Usually about the second I give up and just do something else. FOUR: Lastly stop putting some many links circling the video. I can't tell you how many times I have accidentally clicked things, which didn't open a new page, but just moved the current page, losing my place in the show and making me watch it all over again including the commercials.

The player isn't all that bad. It is one of the very few that is actually usable on my new Google TV, and the resolution is surprisingly good. If they would just make the experience around the video better I would use it more, and maybe even recommend it to others.