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youtube
is a rapidly growing video community acquired by Google for
$ 1,6 billion where everyone can show videos for free. Meanwhile
they pride the delivery of 70 million videos
per day and 9 million visitors in February. Sequoia
Capital had been in there as the lead investor with $15,5
million and the growth rate is absolutely massive. Current
competitors are vimeo and Jumpcut.
In April Time Warner's AOL had even dared to introduce plans
to charge users for sending E-mails.
Poorly programmed video search engine blinkx.tv
might become a part of Rupert Murdoch`s NewsCorp and AOL went
for Internet video search pioneer Truveo.
At minimovies.com
a fine selection of flashplayer movies can be explored.
Itunes has sold 12 million videos
in recent months.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
is perhaps the first leader, who has understood about the
meaning of Internet videos with it`s communicational opportunities.
It just feels a liitle sad to see poor asp and no linux at
his site.
Sadly enough the domain streamingmedia.com
has been captured by some folks who only seem to be interested
in spreading some promotional sales mails.
Reuters News agency has established
a superb video news network based on a very decent flash player
programming which is available at leading video sites.
The Mozilla foundation has announced
to release promotional videos that will introduce satisfied
users.
maniatv.com from Colorado
is one of the true pioneers of global Internet TV with a staff
of 85 creative folks enabled by several million dollars funding.
Live casts are their strength and by now they claim 2 million
viewer per month.
revver.com
is a new website, where also amateurs can upload their videos
in order to eventually earn some advertising revenues. Behind
the operation stands for example Ian Clarke, the founder the
Freenet Filesharing network and with 80 million views for
certain cartoon videos chance look swell, that advertising
dollars will now stream much faster into the accounts of talented
new film makers. ... here`s
the story with the links
Several websites without any real media background try to
make money with even incomplete Internet TV
listings. webtvlist.com is just
one sad example which is filling the search engines whilst
many real Television sites have problems in getting listed
and found.
Apple has launched an Itunes video
service which has taken off as large as expected. With 20
Gig+ capacity on their latest Ipod units there is now also
no longer a capacity problem and one million videos were sold
in less than 20 days.
Another form of TV over the internet has been made available
by tv.org,
where a huge amount of programs can be downloaded for less
than $2 per month.
current.tv
by Al Gore is the very latest video site and in Europe users
are awaiting 50Mbit connections by next year.
Through their partner premiere tv the Uefa is now going to
make all 125 Champions League soccer
matches available also on the Internet as live streams. The
station is currently looking for a qualified technical partner.
more
tvover.net
is a new board for websites dedicated to Internet TV.
The world`s best News Video Service
still comes from the BBC whilst CNN videos fail to even start
on most PCs with a poorly programmed Media Player solution,
which only runs on latest media player 9.
Videos and Internet TV have become
markets, that Yahoo, Google and blinkx are now trying to capitalize
on more intensively. However so far none of these initiatives
seem to provide much new value to users or media producers.
Also Google occurs to have problems even with the quality
of it`s basic regular search, where many quality video sites
can no longer be found.
A new Internet TV endeavor has been launched in Canada at
omn.org,
which is called open media network.
The new yahoo video
search presents at least some results however yahoo music
is currently delivering 350 million videos each month.
A the favorite remains with plenty of old school classics
like Bonanza and other goodies webranger.net
Election time in the U.S. had shoved video creativity to
new levels, for example at instantfilms.tv.
tvtonic.com
is a new distibution form for streaming media where you have
to download a new player for full screen settings to receive
in dvd quality.
msnbc
has now also entered the streaming video age and the UK offers
virtuetv.com
and 3btv.com,
both at just another giant level.
zilo.com
is a New York based Internet TV Network dedicated to students
and young adults with stunning streams like from Lil`Kim etc.
launch/yahoo
claims to have the most videos on the web and heavy.com
presents a great sound and design.
news & politics
The United
Nations are trying hard to get some streaming videos up
and running.
Outstanding streaming video quality comes from the feedroom
with a wide range from fashion, music, news, travel, sports
and more.
abc.go.com
is offering great video quality.
At johnkerry.com
a masterpiece in streaming video had been created by experts
from mtv.
moveon.org
has entered the streaming video age.
The BBC
maintains a crucial interactive cinema, where viewer can submit
a 1 minute clip of their own.
Democracy has a new chance through Internet TV as shown at
freespeech.org.
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