Veoh enters crowded online video market
By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer Mon Feb 12, 5:16 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Veoh Networks Inc. is launching a Web video syndication service Tuesday that uses peer-to-peer technology to distribute DVD-quality video and publish it on the Web's most popular sites, including MySpace and YouTube.
The privately held company hopes to become an online television service, allowing content creators to build their own channels and viewers to easily find and download video.
Veoh hopes to distinguish itself from competitors such as Brightcove, Revver and others by the use of a peer-to-peer network that will allow the delivery of huge video files more efficiently. With Veoh, users share the load of transmitting content, which is generally sent in small chunks from PCs that have its software installed.
The company is also touting its virtual digital video recorder service, which allows users to subscribe to programs or download video from any Web site.
The San Diego-based company has raised $12.5 million from investors such as Michael Eisner, former chief executive of The Walt Disney Co., Time Warner Inc. and private venture capital firms.
Once content creators upload their videos to Veoh, the content can be instantly syndicated across the Web to popular sites such as YouTube and Facebook. The videos also can be distributed to blogs, Really Simply Syndication feeds and portable devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPods.
The site has already signed deals with US Weekly magazine to create a celebrity news channel. The Hollywood talent agency UTA also has agreed to create a channel to audition clips from aspiring filmmakers and actors.
This story is very late. Veoh has already started doing this. And they did it without so much as a by your leave sir. Oneday you had to upgrade your veoh player or you couldn't access the service and when you did. You were greated with this gutenella (?), stuff. And the loss of your download que so you can only manage your downloads while they are downloading. Channels are now people and categories are few. And when you click the download button the player starts up and you can't browse the site, no bandwitdh.
Anyway the original content they are looking for is the same ol' Hollywood prefabricated canned stamped out sameness. Its now just another place for movies and music that nobody really loves that will be pushed on you as though it's the only thing you need, for right now that they are selling it to you. After that, it will be a different face same mesage. over and over and over...
But what will kill them is the fact that in no time soon will the U.S. get true highspeed access. 50 - 100mps in South Korea and Japan for same price we pay for what we get. But that exact same equipment will not be able to deliver the same here. P2P takes some of the burden off of them but it puts it on people who are not guaranteed to be their. TV is TV and DVD players are around 30 bucks U.S. so I don't see this online video need. What we do need is more world views.
Lastly porn. The real adult stuff is not porn but just people doing.., stuff. When you let porn in all you get is people using the site to post little porn clips that don't belong to them using a butt load of tags so the clip would come up. There is nothing more anoying than porn ads. Especialy when you ain't even looking for it.
So yeah there should be someplace for adult content but I think these online video hosting sites will keep skirting the dangerous line of letting people lie about their ages. Porn aside you need to be able to talk openly to your peer group too.
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