The Rise of the Internetwork 110
Thomas Hawk writes "The Seattle Times is out with an article today profiling Jeremy Allaire, the founder of a new internet television company called Brightcove along with, well, a program on 'hog cooking' to be broadcast on the Barbeque Network by DaveTV. DaveTV and Brightcove, along with companies like Akimbo, Total Vid, Open Media Network and OurMedia are part of a growing new group of companies called internetworks that are seeking to compete with regular network television and offer alternative niche video content. Look for these offerings in your living room through platforms like TiVo and Microsoft's Media Center shortly."
BBQ Network? (Score:1, Interesting)
Or will this finally fix this?
Re:BBQ Network? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:BBQ Network? (Score:3, Insightful)
I know a good Internet anime channel. It's known as BitTorrent.
Seriously, why would anyone want to watch a noisy, interlaced broadcast with the broadcast companys logo smeared over the image and far too often horrendous dubbing, when you can download a DVD-quality video file with both original and dub sounds and subtitles in a subtitle channel, possibly on several languages ?
And while Internet broadcasts might be made from no
Re:BBQ Network? (Score:1)
Re:BBQ Network? (Score:2)
That and beer. Why is there no Beer Channel?
'hog cooking'? (Score:3, Funny)
You chose the wrong crowd for this article.
Re:'hog cooking'? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:'hog cooking'? (Score:2)
Sorry, pal. A rea 'Q doesn't have steaks, unless you are masochistic. A REAL 'cue has
1) Chicken. The holy, white, tasty nectar meat of the gods. Beef is for Texans and other low lifes. Extra points for salmon or tilapia.
2) Sweet/sour BBQ sauce. There is none higher. Extra points if you go for cajun sweet/sour.
3) Partially pre-baked - one of the biggest problems with a 'cue is getting the meat cooked in the center without charring t
Re:'hog cooking'? (Score:2, Funny)
1)sausages. cheap nasty ones. you are going to incinerate them anyway, why pay more? possibly some chicken drumsticks if you are posh.
2)tomato ketchup. loads of it. remember, carbon tastes better with tomato flavour.
3)raging inferno. if your BBQ isnt blackening the neighbours fence, you obviously didnt pile the charcoal high enough. add more charcoal. you may need some sort of highly flammable substance to kickstart it again - s
Re:'hog cooking'? (Score:2)
For the benefit of the true geeks out there who require definitions, the parent fails to point out that there is a difference between barbequeing and grilling.
Barbequeing is truly an art. It takes hours to do, because the meat (chicken, pork, ribs, etc) cooks by indirect heat and smoke. You often mop on a sauce to keep the meat from drying out. Whatever you eat is often best topped with barbeque sauce. Homemade stuff, not the crap from the store.
Grilling, on the other hand, is simply cooking over an open
Nonsense. We do BBQ! (Score:2)
Interesting term... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Interesting term... (Score:3, Funny)
I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce my new invention:
The InterNetWorkPlaceHolder
I don't know what it does yet, but with a name like that, it can't miss!
Annoying term (Score:5, Insightful)
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Together they protect us from the Terrible Secret of Space. (They also form Voltron. KillerDeathRobot will form the head!)
As an infrastructure guy... (Score:1)
Re:The ties that bind. (Score:5, Interesting)
This was foreshadowed by the Napster fight. The difference is that the television market is too diversified for any single group to put it in a chokehold. This means that home produced shows are able to make way into the home. In the end that means the consumer will win and eventually big business will come in and take over the market but until then be prepared for large corporations to fight this to no end.
Re:The ties that bind. (Score:2)
Hopefully this doesn't mean 200 channels of the same drek that is seen on (the blissfully limited to 1 or 2) current public access TV.
Re:The ties that bind. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:The ties that bind. (Score:2)
Sure - not anymore but they still weild considerable power in the form of government lobbying.
And the still *DO* have a chokehold on global promotion.
Musicians have no less freedom to self distribute
Yes, but without a global promotion mechanism, they have no choice but to submit to the RIAA's contract demands.
Internet distribution is a good thing, but there is still one piece of the puzzle left.
Napster proved only one thing; people just
Set business model (Score:1)
Hm... (Score:1, Redundant)
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I have an idea... (Score:1)
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Re:Combine the two. (Score:1)
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Get Dvorak back! (Score:1, Interesting)
Well... (Score:2, Insightful)
What took so long? This was overdue the day video streaming over the net became possible.
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Re:Well... (Score:1)
Holly cow! Think of the late fees!
Convergence of technologies (Score:1)
1.) Bandwidth, Storage, and Server Capacity has become cheap enough to economiclly host videos.
2.) DV Cameras have become cheap enough that almost everyone has one.... or at least some mechanism for capturing video.
3.) Home Broadband connections have become fairly ubiquitous.
4.) Tools for making "watachable" home movies are finally in place. Windows movie maker can actually make even a horrible travel video tolerable.
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Why limited to those devices? (Score:3, Interesting)
Aegilops
Re:Why limited to those devices? (Score:1)
Network Interface? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Network Interface? (Score:2)
In theory it's possible if you have the TiVo connected to a broadband Internet connection.
The next logical step after podcasting (Score:5, Interesting)
At last, perhaps there will be more than "500 channels and nothing on".
-- Scott
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Internetwork (Score:2)
Another one (Score:5, Interesting)
I still prefer the term "nichecasting" for this kind of idea (microcasting implies "small"), and it's particularly cool when you look at it from a Long Tail [typepad.com] perspective. So if we can [n]cast for virtually no cost, all we need to do is create stuff for virutally no cost. RvB is still, I think, the best example of that kind project. Does anyone know of any other FOSE[ntertainment] out there?
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broadcatching (Score:3, Interesting)
I prefer "broadcatching" as it inverts one-to-many delivery with "many-to-one" access (and perhaps I'm partial, also, as I coined the word in 1983).
Re:broadcatching (Score:2)
A million channels (Score:1)
This is the way to do it.. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:This is the way to do it.. (Score:2)
Phew. Plug done. I'm sorry if your eyes are watering.
Re:This is the way to do it.. (Score:2)
THen say so! Right up front! You can get mor
Re:This is the way to do it.. (Score:2)
Anyway, the project is taking a show I produced 4 years ago, opening up all the content and resources we have made, and letting people create their own projects like OSS. To make it easier we're
Collaborative Scriptwriting & Editing & (Score:3, Interesting)
When I finish I hope it will encourge other people to collaborate over the Net to write scripts, find public domain & creative commons video footage & images, create flash animations, and edit them all together in copylefted, Creative commons entertainment and educational videos, free to download, anywhere, anytime. Such a copylefted production, if done well, could be traded over p2p networks for
Re:This is the way to do it.. (Score:2)
I don't have a video camera. Neither do I have any acting ability :(. What I do have is a computer, Internet access, and lots of ideas.
The question is, how to turn those ideas into reality ? Computers can be used to make animation, but that requires making models (difficult and tedious), binding them to skeletons (very very difficult to get right), and animating them (not really hard, but more work than it should be).
Re:This is the way to do it.. (Score:2)
I love the concept of being able to just mark two places in a room and tell a character to walk from A to B, and worry about subtleties once the basics were down. Making the software work for the artist is the first step
Re:This is the way to do it.. (Score:2)
I recently decided to make a cal3d animation editor. It was very easy to do and I completed
Battlestar Galactica (Score:1)
The Return of Pseudo? (Score:2)
How this industry will shape up (Score:5, Interesting)
1) We'll see the wide spread use of the internet slowly transform it into huge single communications network. Everything, telephonery, telivision, and radio will be done online.
2) We will finally see the advent of video telephones like in the Jetsons
3) This switch to the new distrubion medium will shatter traditional industry and decentralize content production.
4) The decentalization will lead to a decrease in professionalism and for the first years the content will suffer a decline in quality.
5) Online media interst groups will emerge offering higher quality content and reintroduce large corparations into the industry.
6) News types of content will result from the above processes and...
7) Maybe 50 years from now the internet will be free to all.
I don't know just some things I think will happen....
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Competition (Score:1)
I'm guessing that these companies will lease the local telecom companies' bandwidth, and we'll still be stuck with the same old YourLocalPhoneCompany vs. YourLocalCableCompany (in my case Bell and Time Warner) for over-the-internet data options (i.e. VoIP, video over IP, etc.)
I'd like to see ways for competition to increase in the local broadband spectrum...
its about time... (Score:3, Interesting)
Either you can call it a amalgamation of the distribution systems (everything distributed by the network), or a glorious break in the holds of the cable companies on how and when we view media, but either way, I think its a good thing.
Personally, I haven't had cable in about 5 years because I just don't want to pay $50/month for 500 channels that I don't care about. I watch about 10 channels overall, and if I could pay for those ala carte, I would, but I'm not going to pay for all of them. This style of distribution is perfect for me and the way I want to purchase media.
However, its going to be hell on advertisers (ha ha), because now they're going to have to do even more market research to figure out where it is worth their time to put advertisements. Technically, it could be the end of in media res advertisements as well. It would be like watching programming made for HBO, purchased on an ad hoc basis. Oooooohhh... I like it.
Tell me again. How is this a bad thing?
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Only creativity matters. (Score:2, Interesting)
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Trends (Score:3, Insightful)
"Other companies will pop up to complement [this] and offer great business opportunities"
They profiled Jeremy and didn't mention CFML? (Score:1)
Maybe you don't have to, but you should.
My Start-Up company is in this space. (Score:2, Interesting)
While I admire the author for being aware of the consumer-generated video content revolution, I think his focus on pay-per-view and subscription based video is too heavily weighted. Our experience is that advertising suppo
The new channels (Score:3, Funny)
All advertising, all the time!
LiningUpTV (Score:3, Informative)
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internetwork (Score:2)