Austria’s original, privately held TV-station ATV launched their new video-portal into private beta just yesterday. the ambitious goal: to mesh their very own on-air content with user-generated video, therefor building ‘Austria’s answer to YouTube’ (my interpretation) while bridging the gap between on-air & on-line. the strong emphasize on geo-location of users & videos might add [...]
this post is part of Ritchie’s blog carneval ‘Best & Worst Gadget 2008′ (or ‘Bestes / übelstes Hardware Gadget 2008′, if you prefer german), which is about to end today – so if you want to join, better hurry up!
in 2008 I finally settled to buy a new TV-set for my living room. not being [...]
seems like YouTube recently has been adding a special user-interface (larger fonts, less clutter) for access on TV-sets at youtube.com/tv. unfortunately this is only available for browsers on the Playstation3- or Wii-consoles, but as Google Blogoscoped points out, a simple change of your browser’s user-agent-string to Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00) or Opera/9.23 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii [...]
I’ve just received 3 more invites to Joost, and since the last time demand exceeded supply thought I’ld put them on offer again. just drop me a comment if you’ld like to try out Joost. myself I’ve been tuning in more often lately, esp. like the music-video channels by XL recordings and MOS.
with their latest beta-release a week ago, on-demand video service Joost is starting to make sense (to me): more content (f.e. the well-produced Ministry of Sound Access All Areas), support for the mac’s remote control (yeah!) and upcoming community features (integrated chat, blogging of screenshots). however, on a large-screen TV, video-quality isn’t there yet (though [...]