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Fuzzy Logic Can VeohTV outdo Joost?
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 21 June 2007 | |
  
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But no matter what business you’re in, if you can create a better mousetrap there’s every chance the world will beat a path to you door. The creators of VeohTV are hoping their new and free new TV player – and recorder – offers great features which they hope will make VeohTV the Internet TV software of choice. The VeohTV player is in beta, with the website allowing you to enter in your name and email address so that you can be invited to download the latest beta version. We entered our details a few hours ago but at the time of publication still haven’t received a reply email with the download link to get the beta and try it out for ourselves. So, what is VeohTV? It’s free software that lets you watch and record Internet video from thousands of video sources. VeohTV says you’ll be able to browse channels and watch full-length episodes from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, YouTube, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, and thousands of other sites that offer video in common video formats. VeohTV gives you a TV-style guide to look through, and also lets you search via keywords. If you computer has a remote control, Veoh says you can use it with VeohTV to easily navigate the interface if desired, and why not? That’s what remote controls are for. In addition, if you choose to let VeohTV analyze your viewing choices, VeohTV says they can learn “what you like and automatically recommend videos to you” to watch, which will, in theory, be a handy service that will bring interesting content you should be interested in to your attention. Just as Joost offers interactive features, so too does VeohTV, with what they call “sophisticated widgets [which] allow you to interact while watching videos”. No doubt there will be growth in the widget area, especially if VeohTV truly becomes popular, allowing all kinds of interaction, social networking opportunities and more. One of VeohTV’s best features promises to be its recording capabilities, which let you record what you’re watching to your hard drive so you can watch it later, even if you’re offline. VeohTV is also said to be using peer-to-peer (p2p) technology like Joost, but instead of following Joost’s policy of using their own servers, Veoh claim that the content they stream comes direct from the video owners websites. The world’s Internet technologies are clearly reaching a tipping point where finally much more advanced capabilities are emerging, with the availability of broadcast quality TV through the Internet becoming a standard feature that anyone with a broadband connection to the net can enjoy whenever they want. If you go to Veoh’s main video sharing site, it’s important to note that the freely downloadable Veoh Player is not the same application as VeohTV. Veoh Player can likewise play video from a range of different sites and is useful software in its own right, but looks set to be overshadowed by the impending VeohTV onslaught. So whether you’re a couch potato, a mouse potato or a mixture of the two, VeohTV promises, as does Joost, to make the Internet TV experience that much more enjoyable, and much more like a real TV experience. We look forward to receiving the invitation to download VeohTV, which reminds us to keep a lookout for the next version of Real Player with recording features all its own due before the end of this month, and we’ll keep you updated on both programs as we get more information. {moscomment} |
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