Nickname: BeanoVision

Review: It's exciting to see all these new platforms taking shape. I recently found a web tv site named www.hotsos.tv that had a bunch of lifestyle videos that I've never seen before on TV. There are people out there creating their own platforms, without the financial backing of these other companies, and it looks just as good!

Date reviewed: Dec 20, 2006 5:13 PM

Nickname: joe

Review: How is this different then podshow.com?

Date reviewed: Dec 15, 2006 11:22 PM

Nickname: arthurguru

Review: Just like in the oil industry, the current legal battles are all about millionaires protecting their millions. However with perceived "unlimited bandwidth" around the corner, these dinosaurs are heading for extinction and the markets will be taken over by tech savvy individuals who see the new possibilities the medium brings.

Date reviewed: Nov 20, 2006 3:47 AM

Nickname: abdul chowdhury

Review: YouTube, Brightcove, Revver, and Metacafe will meet their match when these guys finish their project. Look at Skype: There were companies there before that provided the same service.

Date reviewed: Nov 1, 2006 7:38 PM

Nickname: jolly giant

Review: The future is in passive emitter compressing technology. This is merely a transitional stage that will only last months.

Date reviewed: Oct 17, 2006 11:22 AM

Nickname: pokingaround

Review: I wonder if they're trying to do something like the new startup GlooTV. The only issue is that, from what I hear, GlooTV has a big development lead.

Date reviewed: Oct 15, 2006 5:10 PM

Nickname: Guido

Review: Everybody intrested in that area should watch what happens here: www.CyberTiVi.com . Real-Time-P2p TV is one thing, but I guess the free "online TiVo" for the U.S. (starting next month) is a big thing for everybody. In Germany they have 600,000 customers. I think this is "next- generating videorecording". Why should I have a hardware-DVR at home and not rent a free online-PDR? Think!

Date reviewed: Oct 5, 2006 3:13 PM

Nickname: Mark

Review: If you honestly believe: "The evolution of TV on the Web isn't likely to look like a rerun of the legal battles over film and music on the Web," then I think you need to reexamine what's going on in the industry. According to sources such as Communications Daily and others in the television trade press, companies such as Virtual Digital Cable, http://www.vdc.com, which bring a true cable television experience through IP are facing huge hurdles from big broadcasters with current copyright issues for content delivered over the Internet. The communications war between the FCC, copyright law and large corporations like Comcast who unofficially block smaller companies like VDC from obtaining programming has just begun. The evolution of TV on the Web will be far worse than the legal issues of film and music on the Web seen in years past.

Date reviewed: Aug 3, 2006 4:57 PM

Nickname: maricus

Review: I don't understand how these guys are doing it but this is the only TV experience on the web that matches, in my view, real PAL video quality (it's a trailer for the upcoming "Gridiron Gang" movie). BW can you unveil to me the details of the technology that is used HERE? It sure is NOT Windows Media, but a lot better. . . http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/gridirongang/vividas/index.html

Date reviewed: Aug 2, 2006 1:09 PM

Nickname: GavinD

Review: I like the sound of the project. But what it may come down to is not so much the technology, which will be made to work with enough money thrown at it, but more one of content ownership. What will make any of the systems the market leader will be ownership of the best "produced" content. Most of the current players have great semi-professional or amateur offerings, plus some professionally produced material. But without exclusivity, where does any one site gain a competitive advantage? This is where I would be waiting to see Friis and Zennstrom strike, because it will require the captial they currently have available and the business relationship abilities they possess.

Date reviewed: Aug 1, 2006 7:26 AM