newteevee.com— The founders of Kazaa and Skype4 are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just as their earlier efforts turned the music and phone businesses on their respective heads.
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For me, the best thing about TVP is that's it's built on open standards and open software - even though I'm sure the video itself will be locked down, this will allow third party developers to easily develop plugins/extensions. It also means the development process is much quicker - they're not having to reinvent the wheel with everything they do.
Now you know why HD TV came about. The big publishers realised some years ago that internet tv, or streaming/on demand tv was going to basically wipe them out. Why watch fixed programming when you can select what you want when you want, without advertising!So they released HD TV as the "next big thing" to keep all the plebs still tuning in, still paying subscriptions... TV as we know it is dying. Vive la revolution! :)
So it would seem to me that this thing is basically built on XULRunner with some player with some proprietary codec. It would be interesting to see that by the time that TVP comes out we'll all have an XRE (XUL runtime environment) installed running a bunch of plugin applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, Democracy TV, etc...
zobcatJan 12, 2007
I don't know man. I can watch those muscleheads pick up s**t all day long. "Hey look at that rock! I bet I can pick it up! AHHHH!". Awesome.
domrJan 12, 2007
For me, the best thing about TVP is that's it's built on open standards and open software - even though I'm sure the video itself will be locked down, this will allow third party developers to easily develop plugins/extensions. It also means the development process is much quicker - they're not having to reinvent the wheel with everything they do.
markpdotcomJan 13, 2007
Now you know why HD TV came about. The big publishers realised some years ago that internet tv, or streaming/on demand tv was going to basically wipe them out. Why watch fixed programming when you can select what you want when you want, without advertising!So they released HD TV as the "next big thing" to keep all the plebs still tuning in, still paying subscriptions... TV as we know it is dying. Vive la revolution! :)
centinallJan 13, 2007
So it would seem to me that this thing is basically built on XULRunner with some player with some proprietary codec. It would be interesting to see that by the time that TVP comes out we'll all have an XRE (XUL runtime environment) installed running a bunch of plugin applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, Songbird, Democracy TV, etc...
Closed AccountJan 13, 2007
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the Venice project will ultimately fail because of bandwidth limits. Download may be fine, but p2p requires upload and download - and isps limit upload connection, so it won't work well. Alternatives for now, that only download and don't upload:<a class="user" href="http://www.freetube.us.tc">http://www.freetube.us.tc</a><a class="user" href="http://www.mangrove.org">http://www.mangrove.org</a><a class="user" href="http://www.tvtonic.com">http://www.tvtonic.com</a>
biiscitJan 13, 2007
You think so? Give me examples besides the 4 or 5 channels offered on public television.
jeremyliewJan 14, 2007
People (including Om) have noted three key hurdles that TVP will need to overcome to be successful; (i) content is weak (ii) download is required (iii) big bandwidth demands. I think (i) and (ii) are surmountable but (iii) will be a challenge as P2P doesn't do enough to solve the problem at high penetration rates. If you're interested, I've posted about it at <a class="user" href="http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/the-venice-project-both-easier-and-harder-than-people-think/">http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/the-venice-project-both-easier-and-harder-than-people-think/</a>