I’m so excited! Why you ask? Only because I finally received my invitation to buy Popcorn Hour!

Way back in February, I did a little drive by linking, and mentioned Popcorn Hour. Popcorn Hour is a standalone video player, that can play video files from a number of sources. It can play files that you store on a local hard drive, files shared by other computers in the house, and even videos on youtube.

All in all, this is a sweet little device. You don’t have to have a hard drive to operate it, and without a drive, it sells for $179.

There has been such a demand for the player, that it became an invite only system. I signed up a month or so ago, and Monday I received my invitation to buy it.

When I initially signed up, I wasn’t sure if I was going to want to buy it or not, but recently I’ve ran into some frustrations when trying to get some video files on DVD to watch on my television. That has been such a pain, that even my wife is all for buying it.

So I went ahead and ordered it. (W00t!)

I won’t receive mine until sometime in April, but you can be sure I’ll let you know what I think of it.

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This weekend, I was converting one of the CD Audio books that I legally own into MP3, for my own personal use, and I was a little bored.

Since I was using up too much CPU time to play a game, and was being interrupted too often to write anything, I was in the perfect zone to watch some Internet video on my computer.

That’s when I ran across a Team Fortress 2 Tournament on Gamespot’s Tournament TV.

The Tournament had actually taken place on March 14th, but it was still available to watch. The tournament was called Uber Destruction, and was for the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2.

This was actually the first tournament I had seen on Gamespot, but I’ll have to tune in and see when they have others. It was really great to see how others play, and the hosts of the show were pretty funny. Although to be honest, I’m a little peeved because I couldn’t imagine much of a better gig.

Anyway, it actually got me pretty pumped up to play some more Team Fortress 2. I love the game, but I haven’t played in awhile.

If you’re into gaming, you should tune into Tournament TV, looks like the next one is going to be for Call of Duty 4, with $4000 in prizes.

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You must have thought about it, just as everyone back in the days of the gold boom thought about packing their bags and mining the mountains, hoping to strike it rich. We think about doing something on the Internet to make millions of dollars. It must have crossed your mind at one point or another, either in passing, or as an obsession that keeps you up at night, and I mean late at night / early morning. So late that the dog looks ticked off because you woke him up.

So late that the only thing on TV is infomercials about making infomercials. So late that one channel has Billy Mays asleep. So late that when you get on the internet, the only page you can get up has bars of different colors, and says that the internet has reached the end of its broadcast day. Anyway…

Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund have created a web only show called “The Next Internet Millionaire”. The show is a “reality TV meets the Internet” contest. 12 contestants will be competing to win a joint venture with Joel Comm. The details are a little sketchy, but the contestants will be learning from the “masters of marketing”.

I’m pretty anxious to see what the show is going to be like. The site is pretty heavy with advertisements and sponsors, but hey, they have to make a buck, right? As I mentioned, there are 12 contestants, and the last time I could see the list, they were split down the middle between men and women.

The first episode airs August 15th, and although I haven’t been able to get myself to watch a TV show on my computer, except when I’m traveling, I’m going to try to watch this show.

It seems that filming has already finished, and they must be working on the editing now.

Hopefully this will be successful, and maybe broadcast television will market some shows to us geeks, besides “who wants to be a superhero”. Something like “Network Protocol Jeopardy”, or how about celebrity squares, but with Internet and computer industry celebrities. They could put Bill Gates and Larry Ellison on opposite sides of the board, or Jason Calacanis and Jimmy Wales would be on opposite sides too, just in case.

More Reading:

The Next Internet Millionaire - Biz-Blogger.net

internet millionaire - Secret Marketing Links

Reality TV Comes to the Internet - Cool Tube TV

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