Online Video: The Flood Gates
Published by Clark Saturn on 11 May 2006 at 6:27 am.
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Grab your wi-fi enhanced 90 gig, no, terabyte hard drive life jacket, a virtual display to transmit directly to your retina, an inner tube and some non-perishables as the internet video flood crashes the gates! Sure, there are many commercial places to upload, host and share your personal videos, such as Blip.TV, Vimeo.com, YouTube.com, GoogleVideo, Veoh.com, and VMix.com. And the next tributary entering this stream is Big Media. This little river is about to burst over the banks! Warner Brothers teams up with BitTorrent to offer movie downloads? At last they have figured out: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. And charge admission.
Bravo is now set to launch “BrilliantButCancelled.com” for access to cancelled shows that had cult followings. Telemundo is partnering and merging with Yahoo. Pretty much every day, some “traditional media” company is sticking it’s toe in to test the waters, liking the temperature, and diving from the the airwaves into the river of online video. Soon, you’ll have access to pretty much any single piece of printed or recorded media ever made by anyone in the world, in your home. What are you willing to pay for it? Will people finally get tired of watching re-runs on their iPods and discover more interesting and personal vloggers? Will the splintering of audiences further disintegrate the prime time log into tiny particulate vibrations? Oh, and did I mention to grab a filter on the way? Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream…
