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October 09, 2005
New Internet TV Channels: vh1’s VSpot and MTV Overdrive
As Cable TV Networks work on their broadband Internet TV strategy, vh1's launch of VSpot and MTV's launch of MTV Overdrive are interesting version 1.0's of what we can expect other cable channels will be launching in 2006 and 2007.
The end-user experience for viewing Internet TV is only going improve over time.
Welcome to the world of “Disruptive Broadcasting.”
Tags: vh1, mtv, disruptive broadcasting
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Posted by jeff on October 9, 2005 08:36 AM | Permalink
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Posted by: keyon griffin at May 11, 2007 10:52 PM
I agree with Jonathan, viewmy.tv is pretty cool, many featired channels such as bbc, cnn, itv can be found easily and have a high quality, good website!!
Posted by: harry82 at April 3, 2007 09:27 AM
WOW - check out www.viewmy.tv , its got Free AlJazeera in English !!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jonathan at March 2, 2007 10:24 AM
I also noticed that the application wasn't Firefox friendly so I figured they were going for the "mainstream" audience that used IE in 2004...
Even if this is just a version .10 or .25 of what it will evolve to -- this will soon be moving into a direction where the quality of the audio and video available will have the opportunity to be "better than broadcast TV."
Moore's Law is in our favor with the evolution of "Distruptive Broadcasting" and it just a matter of time, not if but when the entire traditional broadcasting model get put on it's head.
Posted by: Jeff Pulver at October 9, 2005 02:16 PM
I agree with Geoff. To be 1.0 it has to have these features:
1) come to my TV, not my computer,
2) use a subscribe model (think rss),
3) use a peer model for distribution (think rss+bittorrent).
TiVo Series 2 with the latest software and some 3rd party software could provide what I'd consider a 1.0.
Posted by: Jeff Macdonald at October 9, 2005 01:31 PM
More like version 0.1 not 1.0. Neither works with Firefox. Click on it and you are offered to download I.E.
Geoff.
Posted by: Geoff Mendelson at October 9, 2005 09:25 AM