Matthew Cashmore wrote: > I'm at a conference in LA at the moment about Next Gen technologies and > we've just been shown this as the 'Next Big Thing in TV' - I'd be really > interested in everyone's thoughts > > http://pages.tvunetworks.com/index.html
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but ... is this intended solely for streaming live TV? No catch-ups, or watching old stuff, or recording for later? No sharing clips? No skipping commercials? If so, then it seems like a reversion to me, made by people with a pre-YouTube, pre-PVR mindset. It reminds me of a bonkers web site I saw in 1995-ish, which *must* have been created by clue-deprived TV executives; it had scheduled content on the same web pages (News: 10-11; Sport: 11-12, Entertainment: 12-1, etc.). "Here's the old camel for doing things, nailed onto the back of the new horse." It was a stunning success, where by 'success' I mean 'failure', and by 'stunning' I mean 'blitheringly obvious'. Likewise, I think TVUnetworks is solving the wrong problem, too. Apart from things where the liveness is essential (news, sport, Big Brother (either kind)), I don't see the benefit to the viewer. I also don't see their business model -- what are they enabling, that people will pay for, that isn't already doable? Is it just lower-cost live streaming for broadcasters, dressed up as a new consumer platform? I think people are now getting used to ignoring schedules (which are only a hack to get around radio spectrum capacity limits anyway), and are deciding what they want to watch, when, rather than organizing their activities around a TV schedule. Or worse, zillions of schedules. "Let's all watch TV like it's 1994! On the Internet!! In Korean!!!" -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
