Gone were the days where television used to have good contents. When Astro, had TechTV on, I thought that they had made a channel with shows tailored specifically to me.

Then the G4/TechTV merger / acquisition thing happened and it all when downhill afterwords. The channel is no longer on Astro. I haven’t watch much of anything from Astro ever since then. I got all I need on the Internet thanks to media companies like Revision3 and others.

Revision3 is one of the few media companies that truly gets it. Born from the internet, designed to cater for the internet crowd, an ever growing on-demand generation. Revision3 is not YouTube, it is an actual TV network, producing its own original broadcast quality shows made for the web.

It also helps that many people, personalities you know from TechTV, had joined Revision3 doing what they do best, making entertaining tech/geek pop-culture shows.

For me, as what I remembered being a fan of TechTV, it all starts with the little show distributed freely on the Internet, thebroken. This to me might just be the starting point of what now would become now known as Revision3.

Thebroken starts of looking like something of a pet project of Kevin Rose, back then he is known as the ‘Dark Tipper’ on The Screen Savers. It is a show dedicated to the underground technology with hacker mentality that caters to the elite, more like the wannabe 1337. It is not all serious technical hacking stuff on the show, with the mixture of hilarious (intentional and/or not intentional) comedies makes it a very entertaining show to watch. Ramzi rocks!

The best part is, the show is free to download.

I might be wrong, but I think thebroken also had inspired some other awesome shows dedicated to the underground hacker culture such as From The Shadows and Hak.5.

If you look closely, you will see thebroken’s DNA being inherited by some of the popular shows on the Revision 3 network. Thebroken starts with two drunk guys on a couch with beers, Kevin Rose and Dan Huard, talking tech, it’s Diggnation. Thebroken makes stuff and gadgets and sometime blows them up, it’s Systm. Thebroken sometime have computers tips and tricks, it’s Tekzilla. You see where I’m getting at? Thebroken is the grand daddy of Revision3.

There are a lot of shows in variety of topics on Revision3 network. Diggnation is one one of my favorites. Who knew that a show about two drunk guys reading (or tries to read) the top stories on Digg.com and discussing about tech, could be very entertaining. The pairing of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht fits perfectly for the type of show Diggnation offers.

Can you imagine if you were to pitch this idea of a show where two guys, drunk most of the time, read top stories from a website and talk about tech stuff to one of the big traditional TV network corporation. I don’t think the idea will fly or if you are allowed back to the building. However, just looking at Diggnation’s live shows you could see how popular the show really is.

Diggnation is one of the early first show that Revision3 featured. It stayed with the same format and it is still going strong with live shows at all over the world.

Other Revision3 shows you should check out are Totally Rad Show, Systm, Tekzilla and PixelPerfect. Each of them I plan to write about in upcoming posts. Also check out The Revision3 Gazette to see what’s going on within Revision3 as the cracker jack reporter Sarah Lane reports from within.

Views are being caution to watch with care as these shows are addictive.

Revision3 is not the only media companies that gets it. There are other people producing cool shows for the web. TWiT network, Pixel Corps, Podshow, Next New Networks, and many more. I’ll try to write about them in the upcoming posts too.

For those who feels all of this are new to them you might want to start to get you feet wet in it. It’s time you use your bandwidth for other then porn.