1. ✴High quality video sharing coming this way
 
We all know the success of video sharing sites like YouTube, GoogleVideo, Daily Motion, etc.
I’ve never really been happy with any of those services because the quality of the videos is poor, and this is a euphemism. I understand that for the sake of saving bandwidth and storage, YouTube and Co. can’t afford to put high quality content, but some new solutions for high quality video content are emerging.
 
And those solutions are based on good old P2P, that (partly) solves the issues related to bandwidth for example.
 
One of the first players to offer high quality video sharing is Zudeo. And Zudeo is based on Azureus, a well-known bittorrent client.
I’ve installed and tried it, I was not necessarily enthusiastic about the quality of the content, but the quality of the video sure is a lot lot better than the competition.
I’m still not sure whether people will go for it, because the videos cannot be viewed in a web browser and you have to load a separate client.
As for the quality of the content, Zudeo has just signed a distribution deal with the BBC so there is a good chance that it will render the system much more attractive.
 
Another interesting example is the Venice Project. I understand this is not a file-sharing system, but this is definitely some high quality TV content that is sent through the Internet and that is going to offer services that go well beyond the classic television services (just sit and watch).
 
I wouldn’t be surprised if Google were jumping on this train very soon.
Tuesday, 19 December 2006
The Silver Tongue Show