Comments on: More Consolidation in Internet TV Space http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/ Startup and Technology News Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-498588 Dave Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:34:10 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-498588 Do you think this was a wise decision? Do you think this was a wise decision?

]]> By: Mike http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-25116 Mike Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:38:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-25116 Another interesting player in the Internet TV space is www.mediazone.com Another interesting player in the Internet TV space is http://www.mediazone.com

]]> By: Lars Krumme http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-23547 Lars Krumme Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:20:20 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-23547 Video Egg is a good start, but as with most of the next generation of video startups, they are only enabling one portion of the overall feature set that most consumers really want out of a video sharing site. Check out HomeMovie.Com next week as we launch the next version of Afiniti - Our web-based video editing & sharing platform that has been in place since 2001: -- Unlimited live capture of video from your digital camcorder and transcoding from existing files on your computer. 5 minutes? 5 hours? no problem! Use our web-based editing tools to create your scenes after the fact. -- management & editing tools for the your digital video, photos and music on your local computer -- 10 hours of free video synching with your online account for sharing or archiving. -- Sharing with family & friends in a private network, or attach to your blog -- processing for non-digital tapes for only $5/tape (up to 10 hours) into MPEG2 video and web-compliant windows media 9.0 -- availability of all of your video scenes as iPod-compatible video downloads for you or your friends and family -- and much more. I can only sit back and watch with amusement the noise that this space is generating once again in the VC community. We started during the last period of euphoria around consumer video sharing. Remember Earthnoise? LifeClips? and the host of others? Thank god we were self-financed and could make the $3+ million we've invested actually go to developing real technologies that people would use and want to pay for in end-product. Video Egg is a good start, but as with most of the next generation of video startups, they are only enabling one portion of the overall feature set that most consumers really want out of a video sharing site.

Check out HomeMovie.Com next week as we launch the next version of Afiniti - Our web-based video editing & sharing platform that has been in place since 2001:
– Unlimited live capture of video from your digital camcorder and transcoding from existing files on your computer. 5 minutes? 5 hours? no problem! Use our web-based editing tools to create your scenes after the fact.
– management & editing tools for the your digital video, photos and music on your local computer
– 10 hours of free video synching with your online account for sharing or archiving.
– Sharing with family & friends in a private network, or attach to your blog
– processing for non-digital tapes for only $5/tape (up to 10 hours) into MPEG2 video and web-compliant windows media 9.0
– availability of all of your video scenes as iPod-compatible video downloads for you or your friends and family
– and much more.

I can only sit back and watch with amusement the noise that this space is generating once again in the VC community. We started during the last period of euphoria around consumer video sharing. Remember Earthnoise? LifeClips? and the host of others?

Thank god we were self-financed and could make the $3+ million we’ve invested actually go to developing real technologies that people would use and want to pay for in end-product.

]]> By: Doug Hacker http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-22197 Doug Hacker Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:48:40 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-22197 Can anyone get VideoEgg to work? It keeps telling me I need to install WMP 10, which I just did - and it still has an issue. No support on the site that I can see. Can anyone get VideoEgg to work? It keeps telling me I need to install WMP 10, which I just did - and it still has an issue.

No support on the site that I can see.

]]> By: Adam Bruce http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21938 Adam Bruce Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:33:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21938 Since the subject is in our Space I hope you don’t mind a little self-promotion. If VideoEgg and BrightCove are driving consolidation, I guess we at Vidiac.com are creating a fracture in the IPTV market, by allowing people to start their own “YouTube” for free under their own URL. We’ve been operating for a year now, and our banner site (http://videos.streetfire.net) alone pushes over a million videos a day. We now have 250 sites using our service and are growing exponentially. And the big news? We’ve been profitable for the last two quarters :-) on 7 digits on annual revenue. Anyhow there are many great sites out there offering video service MetaCafe is a good example, and I personally think that VSocial is doing the best from a features/design perspective. You also have Veoh.com, Vidilife.com and more than a dozen others. The “Consolidation” in my perspective is going to be communities augmenting their brand with video service, rather than a centralized web-site. The reason we have been able to maintain profitability is we’ve grown around focused channels of like content. For Example, we have a Paint Ball web site that attracts paint Ball viewers, who then in turn upload their paint ball videos. This creates natural channels around genres. Since the subject is in our Space I hope you don’t mind a little self-promotion.

If VideoEgg and BrightCove are driving consolidation, I guess we at Vidiac.com are creating a fracture in the IPTV market, by allowing people to start their own “YouTube” for free under their own URL. We’ve been operating for a year now, and our banner site (http://videos.streetfire.net) alone pushes over a million videos a day. We now have 250 sites using our service and are growing exponentially. And the big news? We’ve been profitable for the last two quarters :-) on 7 digits on annual revenue.

Anyhow there are many great sites out there offering video service MetaCafe is a good example, and I personally think that VSocial is doing the best from a features/design perspective. You also have Veoh.com, Vidilife.com and more than a dozen others. The “Consolidation” in my perspective is going to be communities augmenting their brand with video service, rather than a centralized web-site. The reason we have been able to maintain profitability is we’ve grown around focused channels of like content. For Example, we have a Paint Ball web site that attracts paint Ball viewers, who then in turn upload their paint ball videos. This creates natural channels around genres.

]]> By: Eric Rice http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21782 Eric Rice Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:09:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21782 Michael, if you like, upload your stuff to Audioblog.com (oops, gotta start sayin hipcast, heh)... we let you transcode virtually any video format to flash and quicktime for ipod video... a single file must be 256 MB or less. So that's a bit beyond the 5 minute limit. No plugins, nada. Our certifyr score is low tho, so I dunno if we fit with the mojojujr. /smirk Michael, if you like, upload your stuff to Audioblog.com (oops, gotta start sayin hipcast, heh)… we let you transcode virtually any video format to flash and quicktime for ipod video… a single file must be 256 MB or less. So that’s a bit beyond the 5 minute limit. No plugins, nada.

Our certifyr score is low tho, so I dunno if we fit with the mojojujr. /smirk

]]> By: OnSight-Media http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21780 OnSight-Media Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:56:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21780 I tested VideoEgg a few weeks ago and thought it needed a little more time in the skillet. The lip synch on my final Flash video was way off. I'm sure this will change over time, or it may have been an anomoly. I tested VideoEgg a few weeks ago and thought it needed a little more time in the skillet.

The lip synch on my final Flash video was way off. I’m sure this will change over time, or it may have been an anomoly.

]]> By: Michael Arrington http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21767 Michael Arrington Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:20:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21767 My biggest (really only) issue with videoegg right now is that you can only transcode videos that are 5 minutes or less in length. My biggest (really only) issue with videoegg right now is that you can only transcode videos that are 5 minutes or less in length.

]]> By: Markus http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21764 Markus Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:58:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21764 Opps made a mistake in the link.. I ment to link to video egg... Opps made a mistake in the link..

I ment to link to video egg…

]]> By: Bill http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21762 Bill Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:56:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21762 Here's a news "flash". How about a friggin volume control? That's my biggest pet peeve with Flash animations, is that they're blaringly loud and they typically have no mute or volume control. Converting everything to flash is pretty much useless IMO. Here’s a news “flash”. How about a friggin volume control? That’s my biggest pet peeve with Flash animations, is that they’re blaringly loud and they typically have no mute or volume control.

Converting everything to flash is pretty much useless IMO.

]]> By: Markus http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21760 Markus Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:55:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21760 metacafe barely shows up on ask.com/websearch.com http://ranking.websearch.com/SiteInfo.aspx?url=metacafe.com So metacafe is nearly purely early adopters still. Anyone have any idea what the burn rate of these companies is? From the sounds of things if these services try to monitize they will get sued for copyright infringement! metacafe barely shows up on ask.com/websearch.com

http://ranking.websearch.com/S.....tacafe.com

So metacafe is nearly purely early adopters still.

Anyone have any idea what the burn rate of these companies is? From the sounds of things if these services try to monitize they will get sued for copyright infringement!

]]> By: Saul Weiner http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21758 Saul Weiner Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:41:19 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21758 Honestly, a little consolidation in a crowded market may help these folks focus on monetizing their services in realistic ways. Honestly, a little consolidation in a crowded market may help these folks focus on monetizing their services in realistic ways.

]]> By: Simon http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21751 Simon Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:55:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21751 Any idea how much they paid? Metacafe is a great site and product Any idea how much they paid?
Metacafe is a great site and product

]]> By: jeff http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21744 jeff Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:05:54 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/21/more-consolidation-in-internet-tv-space/#comment-21744 has anybody noticed the metacafe made it to alexa 282 ? has anybody noticed the metacafe made it to alexa 282 ?

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