Okay, let me start with a caveat – neither Joost nor Veoh TV run on my mac. So, they both kind of peeve me off. However, lets talk about Veoh TV. First read about Veoh TV in the New York Times. I have the article but I unfortunately don’t have the date. The article was titled “The Boat Is About to Rock (Again) in Internet Video” by Brad Stone.
The main gist of Veoh TV is it is a stand alone browser that defaults to full screen for online video. It is designed to handle the streaming and is therefore smoother then regular browsers in this regard. It does also offer recording abilities – you can record streaming video, and it has certain ways of cutting and/or limiting commercials.
It is the last two elements that are getting some of the TV industry a little upset. “What, loose control to the consumer…nooooooo!!!” However one of the big initial investors in the company is Time Warner. So, there is some relationship to the film/tv industry which stands to benefit Veoh in the long run.
Once, again this is an effort that will be run on commercials and the freely available content on the web – Veoh TV only accesses free content already posted on the web – kind of like Google News (though that is changing with the new relationship Google is developing with news agencies – check out Google Reaches Deal with News Providers in the Wall Street Journal).
Ultimately I think that the Veoh TV has great potential – however it is all up to the availability of TV shows to actually drive the long term usefulness.
It will be a good day in my book when TV and computer seamlessly interact with each other – and, like I said yesterday, that will bring me back to TV and offers great hope for commercial viability of TV.
I think that both Joost and Veoh TV offer great potentials and if the TV industry embraces these developments with open arms they may just prevent themselves from loosing out like the music industry has.
As with all things, time will tell!!
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