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Skype founders' TV-killer examined - TechAmok
Skype founders' TV-killer examined - [technology] 09:44 AM EST - Dec,22 2006 - post a comment
Niklas Zennstrm and Janus Friis, the two entrepreneurs behind KaZaA and
Skype, have been hard at work on their next killer service for a while now.
Known as The Venice Project, the service is a streaming, peer-to-peer platform
for video content that is poised as means to do to television what Skype did to
telephony.
Bloggers at GigaOM have managed to get a quick inside look at the service
courtesy of one of its beta testers:
Let's talk instead about the service in general. I had heard from a lot of
people who were lukewarm on the offering and were not impressed by the photo
quality. I am not sure what happened, but those problems have been fixed. The
visuals on a Lenovo T60 with a 15.2-inch screen were stunning and crisp. The
streams came through without a problem and there was very little jitter. Still,
no point hooking it up to a big screen TV... just yet! There isn't LIVE TV content
on the service right now and most of what is there consists of meager offerings
streaming off the Venice Project servers. So you can't truly judge how good this
service will be when it comes to "live" broadcasts just yet.
There was a noticeable lag in switching channels, or between different menu
choices. But as I said, these will go away with time. Setting up "my channels"
was fairly simple. You just double-click and keep adding channels (or programs)
you want to watch. Removing them was equally simple. It is very "dummy proof"
and they have done a good job of organizing the service in a way that you can
visually navigate without reading a manual.
I also liked that there are a lot of social elements built into the service.
There is a "plugins" feature but not much there except the chat. You can chat
with your buddies, or you can set up a "program or channel specific" chat
network. I am guessing this is where a lot of innovation is going to come.
These guys are really full of good ideas. Only problem with this one will be bandwith/traffic Not many people will be able to use it :-( |
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