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November 28, 2007

I can’t honestly tell you that I’ve been regularly checking out the web site of the long time Tech giant CNET. Although I have ran across it from time to time, I just don’t visit it that often.

Until now.

I’ve mentioned it before, but I just can’t seem to sit down in front of the computer and watch videos for more than a few minutes at a time. I’ve talked about some of my favorites, like Webb Alert and Textra, which are both short duration, but I hadn’t looked at CNET TV before now.

CNET TV is also short little clips, but there are a whole bunch of them, and you can even see what’s coming up next. Not to mention the ability to skip ahead if you want.

Pictured to the right is a closer picture of their player, and you can see the upcoming clips listed in the red highlighted section below the video.

This works well, because instead of one short video, I can watch several short videos, which do a better job of keeping my attention than a longer duration video would.

Since it is only tech news, and most of the time I just need the audio, I’m pretty happy just jumping to another application to keep working, while the clips continue to play in the background.

Now, I do this with the video podcasts as well, but let’s face it, like Steve Jobs at the mock turtleneck store, iTunes and/or QuickTime decides to throw a fit once in awhile if they aren’t the center of attention.

On the other hand, my web browser isn’t as picky. As a matter of fact, I’ve never seen it in a mock turtleneck.

Back to CNET TV, I did notice one strange thing though, there are music videos thrown in to break up the tech clips. I’m not sure what that’s all about, but the nice thing about the player is that you can skip right over them if you want to. Of course, if you aren’t a tech news junkie just hurting for a fix, you can watch them too.

So if you want to see some tech related content and news, check out CNET TV.

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