When a friend told me about Current TV a while back I wasn’t really impressed. “Yeah, yeah,” I thought to myself. “User-generated content on television. Big deal.”

Actually, it sort of is a big deal.

Basically, Current TV has a programming schedule that draws from professionally produced video pieces as well as user-generated content (or viewer created content as they refer to it). Currently, user-generated content accounts for about one-third of all Current TV content and according to them, that number is growing.

I’m not entirely sure where Current TV receives cable distribution but I sampled their content and was very impressed with its overall quality (even though it kept buffering). Hell, I may even try and upload some of my old stuff as an experiment.