Comments on: Loic.tv at Vpod.tv and all the other Online TV platforms

By: pierre

pierre — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:05:07 +0000

Hello
There is also a new technology called Netineo, enabling live broadcast directly available by url.

Thanks for the article by the way

By: Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ

Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:13:39 +0000

Thank you Martin ! We love to have great technology that supports great content like loic.tv and to have happy investors

By: Loic

Loic — Sun, 27 May 2007 11:51:22 +0000

Thanks for the compliment Martin, I like my loic.tv too very much !

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sun, 27 May 2007 11:02:24 +0000

I've been video-blogging in HD for the past couple of years using a HDV camcorder, then encoding to DivX at 3.5mbit/s. That's more like 400mb for 15 minutes, but you also are getting full screen, full HD blue-ray quality experience, at least on a normal computer screen which isn't more than 720p (1280x1080 = 720p), and DivX or H264 at that bitrate looks like perfect HD, judge for yourself among my hundreds of HD videos from: CeBIT, CES, ifa2006.net, and I also video-blogged in HD at E3cast.com and recently around France during Ségolène Royal's campaign at Sego.tv - Also got some OLPC videos at my olpc.tv - So there you got all the links to what I've been doing the past couple of years. I don't think advertising is to be forced onto consumers, especially not in videos, at least give to the visitor the possibillity to pay 1 cent to skip the annoying video add. Basically it's the whole AdSense model that I also don't think can have a mid-term sustainabillity. Ads on the Internet are annoying, and if people can pay a few cents through micro-payments to remove all adds, only get top quality personalized content recommendations at full HD quality streaming, also knowing that the artist is being directly compensated. That's the kind of video startup I want to find programmers who would want to make with me. Cause my last two years of video-blogging in HD has been interesting, and I got more than half a million viewers, but there still isn't a business model for it, and I don't want to believe that only the ads model is gonna be available to internet video fans.

By: Flavio

Flavio — Sun, 27 May 2007 10:46:48 +0000

Hi Martin

There is another important online TV to come soon. It is called Babelgum (www.babelgum.com), and will be a direct competitor of Joost. Babelgum is backed by italian entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia, who is the founder of Fastweb (main competitor of Telecom Italia) recently sold to Swisscom.

Saludos

By: Francesco

Francesco — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:37:41 +0000

Martin, thank you very much for this great post. Another big difference between YouTube and DailyMotion is censorship! Contrary to YouTube, DailyMotion is not censoring videos like this one on Tiananmen's tragedy http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Tiananmen/video/xv3we_tiananmen-massacre YouTube has apparently deleted many times this sort of videos in order to avoid being blocked by Chinese authorities. Francesco http://fracardi.wordpress.com/