After four weeks, should Digg Reel stay or should it go?

[ariastar]

We've given it a chance, four of them. Viewers can only watch for so long and say it's in the early stages, give it a shot. What say you, viewers? If you still watch, that is.

[blooper]

I only made it through like 5 minutes of the first episode. Haven't even thought about watching it again.

[nshady]

Yep, checked it out very briefly and then never watched again. Seems superfluous. I already watch G4's Around The Net podcast which is consistently funnier and often more ahead of the viral trends.

[wideawakewesley]

It's improved, but the format is still far to much like the crap you get on TV.

[joedubbs]

I tried it as well because I liked Jessica on Tekzilla.

I feel the show is a waste and Tekzilla has suffered as well.

[tokenuser]

And why would you post this in the TRS forum?

Moved ... but irrelevant. The success or failure of a show would be told by the download count, not a random poll in the forums.

[ariastar]

Originally Posted by tokenuser

And why would you post this in the TRS forum?

Moved ... but irrelevant. The success or failure of a show would be told by the download count, not a random poll in the forums.

If I posted in TRS, then it was on accident.

[ryudo]

Just imagine an Angry Video Game Nerd rant and cuss words on how much something sucks and then apply that to digg reel.

[andyaldrich]

Ah, oui, je suis d'accord.

1)Jessica was good on Tekzilla. I feel that Tekzilla's role is to cater to Joe and Joetta Bloggs who don't want to really get into computing but want to get to the nitty gritty quick ways of getting things done. As much as we all love Patrick, I feel that he needed someone who was (or at least pretended to be) totally ungeeky. I think Tekzilla should be Systm Lite.

You're all mature enough here to know that I am not having a go at fellow geeks so I'm not going to backpedal as I know you'll read on before you flame.

Systm is really the place for more techy stuff to be put without it having to be dumbed down. Jessica Corbin made Tekzilla feel a little more accessible.

I think that Jessica is a little wasted on the Digg Reel.

2) If Digg exists to highlight the cream of Youtube + Google videos + Myspace videos then why does the Digg Reel need to highlight the cream of Digg? Surely Diggnation exists to perform this function? I feel that the existence of this thread points towards the possibility that the average Digger relates more to the presentation of Diggnation than he/she does with the Digg Reel.

My personal opinion is that because Diggnation is done without a teleprompt and appears to be mostly unscripted (except for the stories they cover) it feels more 'real' than the Digg Reel as the guys make what appears to be a genuine (influenced by alcohol) reaction to the post rather than something off a screen.

[darknessgp]

Originally Posted by tokenuser

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Moved ... but irrelevant. The success or failure of a show would be told by the download count, not a random poll in the forums.

so, I guess the show should never be discussed and possibly improved upon, as clearly the forums don't matter. I do agree that the success or failure is determined by how many people actually watch the show, but does that make it a good show? If so, then Survivor, Big Brother, American Idol, etc. are these awesome shows that no one can say are anything less than perfect. Maybe this poll came off as an attack on the show, which you clearly like. To me, this came off as a "Is this show worthy of being called a Rev3 show?" Which, IMO, it does not and they need to go back to the drawing board.