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Forgot the TV and watch the web

I have found an interesting article from Technophilia which is “Forget the TV and watch the web”. In this article it states lots of video sites which will allow people to watch web TV or videos online without using your TV and which isn’t broadcast at a set time.

By Wendy Boswell who is an associate editor at Lifehacker who loves to watch TV on the web.

TV on the web

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• YouTube: Gorge yourself on the media offerings at YouTube, everything from home movies to TV shows to movie clips and oh, so much more. Many times I’ve found the exact segment of a show that I missed later on YouTube; for example, the infamous Tom Cruise and Oprah incident.
• PBS Frontline: Missed that Frontline episode? No worries – you can watch it online. In fact, PBS has quite a few shows that you can watch online – just use this search string in Google to find them: site:http://www.pbs.org/ “watch online” -frontline.
• ChannelChooser: A free online TV portal with hundreds of channels to choose from, all streaming.
• wwITv.com: An ” independent guide to online streaming media available on the web.” Channels available from all over the world here.
• Democracy Internet TV: watch TV online via the free Democracy Internet TV viewing platform. Over 600 different channels available.
• Jeff’s Guide to “TV Shows Only Available on the Internet”: one of the best places to find a good show; I’m a fan of “Happy Tree Friends” especially.
• Yahoo TV: you can watch clippings and episode trailers here, but not much more than that. However, this is a good place to watch snippets from upcoming shows.
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• AOL in2tv: free episodes of your favorite classic TV shows, anything from Gilligan’s Island to the People’s Court.
• BBC: You can watch the BBC news from London online every day of the week, anytime; another way to find BBC online streaming or archived programs is using this search string in Google: site:http://www.bbc.co.uk/ “watch online”.
• Choose and Watch: a free TV portal with hundreds of channels, including Fox News, ABC, Comedy Central, and much more.
• Live Online TV: Hundreds of channels to choose from here.
• Streamick: Nicely categorized into topics such as News, Sport, Entertainment, etc. This is live, streaming TV.
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• PeekVid: watch over 7000 shows online. I’ve found Desperate Housewives here, as well as Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and X-Files. Yes, Mulder – we believe.
• SingingFish: You can use SingingFish to search for both video content AND audio; just take advantage of the filtering options. I’ve found some good podcasts this way as well as video (Kermit the Frog, baby!).
• Google Video: There’s a wealth of content here, from comedy to music videos to movie trailers.
• Yahoo! Video Search: You have quite a few ways to search for videos at Yahoo! Video Search; try the tabs (Tags, Favorites, Popular, etc.), but I would also highly recommend the Advanced Search page in order to really filter your results.

Medinalia

Medinalia

Medianalia is a site which allows you to watch Online TV or Listen to online radio stations in a simple and free way. Medianalia’s live Television channels database is the biggest in the world meaning on their website people can watch 1600+ live television channels and listen to 5200+ online radio stations. This is all completely free without costs. After I tried to watch few TV clips on Medinalia I realised it is not completely free as it states. We sell ourselves to watch adverts before the videos. It also has other advertisements on its website which may attracted audiences.

By comparing this to Hulu and BBC iPlayer and Medianalia I would prefer to watch web TV on Hulu or BBC iPlayer.This is because Medianalia does not provide high defination quality, no subtitle support and it takes too much time to load. The advertisements are very frequent and it made me feel like I am watching advertisements all the time instead of enjoy my TV programs. By looking into the United Kingdom TV programs on Medianalia I found it only has 72 videos on 19th March 2009 which is not too much choice for audiences. The positive thing about Medianalia is it allows people to watch different countries TV programs.

SKy on your pc

Sky pc

Sky subscribers who may not have a TV in a certain room or wish to use the internet as a source of their viewing have now been given the option of doing so by sky. Sky TV allows anyone with a sky subscription including multi-room to enjoy sky directly from the web using the sky player. Originally I thought about testing this out for myself but I am not registered to sky multi-room and therefore could not. The website informed me to enter either my viewing card number or bank details in order to continue. Although they advertise this as being free you of course need to be subscribed to sky multi-room. Customers who are already part of this get it at no extra cost. This is a great thing and suggests that we do not have to have a Television to watch TV these days.

Free SKY TV on Your PC

Watch OVER 200 CHANNELS!

WITH WORLDWIDE ACCESS

Only £4.95

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Mazi.tv

mazitv

Mazi.tv is a weekly tech show based on reviewing UK and European start ups. They meet at different bars or pubs in London to provide their verdict on the sites that they like the most.

As in my previous post I have stated my reason why I like Web TV. The first reason is because it is useful to help online users to summarise large amounts of information via video. The second is that this summarized information is very easy to find instead of searching around hundreds of links via Google or watching various videos to see if they are correct. With this version it is easy to see what each video is directly about.

As in my previous post I have stated my reason why I like Web TV. The first reason is because it is useful to help online users to summarise large amounts of information via video. The second is that this summarized information is very easy to find instead of searching around hundreds of links via Google or watching various videos to see if they are correct. With this version it is easy to see what each video is directly about Dating sites, and the second one is about Take away site, Although I am not able to order my take away directly from the sites that have been introduced in the video I still believe it is useful for tourists and other people whose area will able to get take away. The third is about Music sites, which is a very good video and summarises lots of music sites well that will allow people to listen to music for free. The fourth one is about Fashion sites, the fifth one is about Personlise your online gift cards.

BBC iPlayer

bbc iPlayer

BBC iPlayer is a website which allows you to catch up with programmes which have been shown on BBC channels in the last 7 days. It allows users to watch them on the website through Click to Play (streaming). This works on Windows, Macs, Linux, Nintendo Wii and iPhones etc. Examples of working on iPhones, Windows and Nintendo Wii’s will be shown in the next few weeks on my blog posts. BBC iPlayer only allows viewers to watch their own BBC TV Content from the past 7 days for United Kingdom users. It also allows them to download TV programmes and store them on to users’ computers for up to 30 days if their computer supports the BBC iPlayer Download Manager. For outside of the UK users can only listen to the BBC radio programmes.

iplayer bbc

Picture A.

As you can see in picture A, “s” means subtitle. When you press this button it will automatically show subtitles and when you press it again the subtitle will go. In the interactive way it is not much to allow audiences to play with compared to Hulu. It is not allowing audiences to leave comments or open a topic to discuss for example. The videos are able to watch in two different qualities: normal and high quality. High quality requires fast internet connections of at least 1Mbps.

iplayer interactive BBC

Picture B

Picture B shows the BBC iPlayer’s comparisons other TV websites in which it allows people to share this link with other networks such as Del.icious, Facebook, Digg, Reddit and others.

If you don’t know where the hell to begin building your website….

These are quite good step by step tutorials for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver-cs4-tutorial-1.shtml

There’s More to Online Videos than YouTube!

It may be used by millions of people worldwide everyday but lets face it, there’s a lot of crap on there. If you want your 3 minute doc to be taken seriously and viewed by people who are really going to appreciate it, then YouTube is probably not the best place to stick it.

So where else can people view your creative piece of work?

You might consider MySpace Film , but it’s debatable whether this would be any better than using YouTube.

Alternatively, Vimeo is a much ‘cleaner’ website, and even supports High Definition.  

Another  place you may want to upload your film to is Blip.tv. Your video will be seen in high Flash quality on this website, and you can also build websites and video channels using it.

Or maybe you could upload it to Archive.org’s Moving Image Library. This site is used by a community of intelligent people with a shared interest in Open Media, and may therefore offer more constructive reviews than any comments made on YouTube.

You can even earn money from your video. Metacafe prides itself on being a different sort of video site. It won’t just post any and every video, and it will pay you for creating and submitting ‘exceptionally entertaining original works’ as part of it’s Producer Rewards Program.

Revver is another video hosting site where your video can bring monetary gain. How? They’ll stick a targeted ad right next it. So if this doesn’t bother you, Revver will split the revenue 50/50 when someone clicks on or even just views the ad associated with your film.

If factual content is your passion, then Current is the place where the users make the news. In addition to the opportunity of getting some feedback on your work if you upload your video here, you may even progress to their very own TV channel.  

So when it comes to sharing your film with the rest of the world, maybe it’s worth researching your options before just plonking it on the most obvious.

Create Your Own Successful Facebook Group

Manoj Jasra gives some tips on how to do this:

http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2007/09/successful-facebook-groups.html

Learn About the ‘Psychology of Facebook’

Professor B J Fogg of Stanford University can help you do this. He has a whole course based on it.

“The Psychology of Facebook” class at the university in California delves into what Professor Fogg describes as ‘a new form of mass interpersonal persuasion’.

He said the pivotal moment came when he watched an application on the site go from “literally zero to more than a million users in a week”.  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7357934.stm)

You can even join the Professor’s very own Facebook group!