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- dunezone, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43It will fail, simply that.
Youtube is convenient and easy to use for anyone, now lets add the corporation spin to it.
Ad Supported - Ads on the website, ads in the videos(beginning, middle, end), ads everywhere
Playback - It will use some crazy flash player or something that will most likely run like garbage
Embedding - Yeah, they more then likely wont let you embed their videos onto your blog or website
Usability - Horrendous, ill use Comedy Central for an example, go to the video section, its graphic heavy and slow
Of course they might debut their Youtube killer without these problems and then slowly limit what a user can do with their media and how they view it. - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24SeriesOfTubes
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"Man getting hit in groin with football"
Homer: [laughing hysterically] This contest is over! Give that man the $10,000.
Jay: This isn't "America's Funniest Home Videos".
Homer: But...the ball! His groin! Ah ha! It works on so many levels! [laughs more] Roll it again. - miglaugh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Maybe they'll call it "We'reCoolTube"...
- nightsweat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Brilliant! Because we need lots and lots of sites instead of just working out revenue sharing with Google.
- 2ndEdition, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11why do i have this feeling that their site is going to be heavily drm based?
- mcflynnthm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Huh. But NBC already has a deal with YouTube. Guess they're tired of kowtowing to Google? 'Cause clearly their content won't end up on YouTube now!
- rowlodge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10the world needs someting besides more flash video sites, we needs different video types even hd for our computers.
- meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I figured since it was NewsCorp, they would just call it MySpaceTube.
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13NBC Board Room conversation:
"OK, imagine Myspace, but for videos. That's sure to kill YouTube!"
"Sir, Myspace already has videos and its still getting crushed."
"But this will have all of our great tv shows!"
"Sir, users already upload all of our shows to YouTube."
"But we'll let them buy it as well."
"Sir, why would they buy it when they can watch it for free?"
"You're fired. Now, who's with me?!" - cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Ow, my balls!
- dunezone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@pacodg
I didn't say their player was bad, but youtube you can go directly to the video you want, Comedy Central you have to dig for it. - aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Brawndo's got what balls want. It's got electrolytes.
- KicktheDonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Google > Yahoo.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Playback - It will use some crazy flash player or something that will most likely run like garbage"
You do realise pretty much every video website including YouTube uses a flash video player yea? - Slashriffs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Will they allow users to upload content?
If so, I can't wait till they get hit with a lawsuit . - datalife, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8hopefully they have videos of people getting hit in the balls, now thats what I want to see.
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5call it mytube! beta
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MyTube, of course!
- seneyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@dunezone
I have to wonder how the ads are being done. Currently you can watch NBC's Heroes on the company website without any commercials during the show, which is pretty cool. Fox puts one ad at break points on their 24 stream which is acceptable. The only annoyance with that the last time I tried it, it was the same ad each break. Got a little annoying after a while. The quality is decent as well, as long as you're not expecting HDTV quality.
I believe that alot of people resort to piracy because they can't easily find what the content that they're looking for. It's a matter of convenience/accessibility. If they can provide a legitimate comparable service that can compete with the ease of use of the old P2P networks (type what you want into the serach box and find a host) then they could get a good user base.
How is it that the tv companies are trying to figure out how to adjust their business model while the RIAA tries to keep everyone in the stone age with their fire and brimstone tactics?
Does Apple have a part in this as well? You can get shows from a lot of these companies off iTunes... Will this link in with iTunes (ie. like this episode? Buy the hi-res for $2 at iTunes!)? - Vtorch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's not true, people don't like Youtube because it's not media controlled.
They like Youtube simply because it's a free way to upload videos on the net and embed them on their website. - anteyekon4myst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Empire Strikes Back...
- Nocturnal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Besides Digg coming in and perhaps taking on /., what other start ups have came out and straight killed another one? I think it's hype. Although I welcome another service but I don't think it will be a YouTube killer. Just like the others who claimed to be Napster killers, or whatever killer, they just couldn't beat the original.
It's just like movies. You have x movie I, and then x movie II. The sequel, 9/10 times suck worse than the original. You just can't be an original. - PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think it could be argued that myspace was ***** up in the first place. Sure, less ads were there, but it was ten times more emo. At least now it has a little flaver of "yo, imma innanet gangsta" mixed in to even everything out among the tards.
- JonAce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3... and then falls.
- nicku, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'm sure this will be a lot like Fox's version of the Daily Show and be huge vacuum of suck. Oh wait thats myspace.com....
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm glad. This will be good for everyone.
Aren't you guys the ones that always tout the benefits of competition? But I guess when Google or Apple are involved, it's no longer a good thing? - magnusdopus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good : possibly more good content online
Bad : You will not be able to add such content to your page unless you are on MySpace. Yuck. - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@dunezone
Funny that you predict that this site will have a worse player than youtube, while youtube has on of the worst usable and looking player there is. - harvinator24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DRM we always find a way around that.
- martyf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can you say "Unbox"? It's gonna be a DRM mess with "player applications" and such...
- pixelpimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love it! Silicon Valley are like the Lombards and Vandals, the keep coming down from the North and disrupting the Hollywood Roman Empire! The Music, Movie and TV industries are trying toi keep a hold on there empires! I can't wait until Google opens up all the dark fiber. It is very interesting times friends. TV will not be broadcat over coventional mean, it will merge with the web (when the web gets fast enough to handle it!). I am for one cheering on Google. Down with the NBC FOX EMPIRE!
- jjesusfreak01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@seneyr
You can watch heroes without commercials? I think you have it backwards, 24 can be watched without commercials during the show, but NBC makes you watch 15-30 second ads between breakpoints on Heroes. Fox uses Myspace, which has a terrible video player, while the NBC player can scale to fullscreen. - linuxwarz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Watch as all the political propaganda rolls in! What could be a better place to start then where the young kids are going.
- InetRoadkill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think the point with the video player is that it will be another odd-ball player that only works with their videos, and the videos will only work with their player. The reason is to prevent the removal of ads and other branding crap that no one wants.
Even worse, it could be like the one Adult Swim has which demands that you install ActiveX into your browser. Ummm, no thanks and ***** you and the horse you rode in on.
My only real complaint about YouTube is that the compression is excessive. The video quality is not very good. - seneyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Can't wait to see the mashups on the service with Fox News and NBC News coverage of events. Hilarity ensues.
- polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, maybe that is because of the blatant bias in all of our media. We go there to escape the stupidity of the major networks.
- shampoovta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These clones never do this stuff right, that is a big reason why You Tube is king.
Heck even google had trouble with its video stuff before the You Tube buy.
I sure ain't worried about old grandpa NBC waving his cane in the air yelling "hay you kids that's my video!"
Seriously they are so slow on the go that they just don't know.
- gamasutra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not going to NBC just to watch NBC clips. Isn't that what NBC.com is for? The popularity of youtube is because you can get all my video in one place.
- crpietschmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SueTube
BoobTube - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Leave YouTube the king of online media... NBC does not have a chance, they should worry about there shows like 30 Rock and re-evaluate "just how real funny it is".... because its not.
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All somebody has to do to considerably gain ground on YouTube is offer a vaguely similar service at a noticeably higher resolution, which wouldn't take much.
Although the real question is, who'd want to compete with what YouTube does? It loses money hand over fist. Content owners are the only ones with a real incentive. - fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't think it'll fail. YouTube isn't perfect and users aren't going there to support YouTube or Google, they're going there for content.
If New Corp. and NBC offer the content people want then people will go there The aesthetics and environment are obviously irrelevant to the success of a site (see: myspace). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dear News Corp. and NBC owner General Electric:
Yeeeaah....Good Luck with That. - dextrocardia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MySpace > Friendster?
- lopla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am astonished to see Microsoft involved in this. I mean this is clearly a site that is trying to copy another site and Microsoft has never been associated with such behavior. It is just surreal to see the global innovator MSFT agreeing to copy another's innovation like this! WTF!?
- seneyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If the movies (full-length and uncut) are ad supported that could be a big thing as well. I don't believe that anyone has tried that yet.
If Google is smart they're going to want to get AdSense on this ASAP. This isn't exactly them trying to shut out YouTube. This is them looking at YouTube and BitTorrent and realizing what consumers want and finally deciding to take a risk and do this. - Rolandami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is getting silly, the train has left the station.
Give the people what they want.
$.99 songs DRM and copy protection free 192bps
steaming TV shows update weekly on web sites, if you miss it see it here
youtube free advertisement
Telcos you are dead move on - hexydes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1YourPipe
- TheLD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wonder if they heard of the phrase "If it ain't broke don't fix it"?
How will this be better than Youtube (if it is going to be remotely similar in that the content is user generated)? -
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