techcrunch.com — The growth of Youtube and it?s subsequent $1.65 billion buyout left behind a bevy of competing video sites. Since then competitors have been seeking to differentiate themselves by focusing on longer videos, higher (bitrate) quality videos, professional content, and paying their users.
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kenvsryuJun 23, 2007
I think pr0n web cams are much bigger than you think.
str3amaJun 23, 2007
This article ignores webcams or television or iptv or whatever we're calling "Live Video" these days<a class="user" href="http://www.freetube.us.tc">http://www.freetube.us.tc</a> or <a class="user" href="http://www.joost.com">http://www.joost.com</a> or <a class="user" href="http://www.babelgum.com">http://www.babelgum.com</a> or 'webcam software'
babydillJun 23, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.justin.tv">http://www.justin.tv</a> or <a class="user" href="http://www.ijustine.tv">http://www.ijustine.tv</a>
carl201167Jun 23, 2007
I've been a bit underwhelmed by Joost so far
tybrisJun 23, 2007
The thing with playback video is that is all the boring crap is cut out of live video and you only watch what you want to watch (or what the internet society makes you watch). It doesn't matter who wins, it'll be a small market.
z3rr0Jun 23, 2007
Kind of like AltaVista owned search? And Motorola and RIM owned the mobile phone market? And like IBM ruled the computer industry? Oh, like MySpace owned social networking? Like that, right?
roflmywaffleJun 23, 2007
uh... GOOGLE, DUH!
albatross111Jun 23, 2007
The old saying - "content is king" is probably also relevant to this discussion. user generated content, which is mostly what you find on youtube, is only one aspect of the viewing or entertainment factors. the TV broadcasting world and the movie industry, who generate copyrighted content, are already looking for new avenues of revenue generation ( Itunes, download sites etc ) but at the same time are also getting into the new delivery channels. we will probably find a mix of players - UGC players ( such as youtube and metacafe ) , new platform delivery players ( such as Joost ) and most likely a lot of telco's and cellular operators ( ISP's and cellular providers for content on the go ).the quality of content delivered over the Internet is improving by leaps and bounds, and SD and HD streaming content is appearing more and. it is just a question of bandwidth availability at the home or on your mobile device.checkout this example of a "regular" service provider - with parameters very similar to any cable or satellite operator, who are "internetcasting" 6 live TV channels - www.watchindia.tv . If you look at their biz model ( assumed.. ), they are bypassing the local cable and satellite operators and going directly to consumers over the Internet with TV quality channels ( they are broadcasting / streaming at 400Kbps and 800Kbps ).here is another post reference to this site :<a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/television/watchindia_com_Live_TV_broadcasting_from_India_over_the_Internet">http://www.digg.com/television/watchindia_com_Live_TV_broadcasting_from_India_over_the_Internet</a>