has anyone tried http://www.showstash.com its kind of a cool site with a lot of popular shows

Back to the business of this thing please… How are they going to make money? If it’s P2P, how do you put ads in? or ads that change? And isn’t P2P only good when you have lots of head content — the same stuff on lots of systems — more Brightcove’s market than YouTube’s, I think.

-> Patricia, thanks for the comment.

Brightcove rolled partnerships with big record labels (warner the latest), so I’m kinda trying to see where differentiation might appear:

Content-wise - orientation to industries (music, tv, fashion..)

Platform-wise - web/client

etc.

@ Uri, you’re welcome! I know a few at Juxt interactive, I know they did some work with you guys but you came highly regarded.

You should email me about content for fashion - there’s a reason why I’m so excited to see news like this post from Mike

The BBC understands the same thing that Google does… The attention of the audience is much more imporant than getting paid by the audience. Once you have their attention then you have a lot more leverage of all your other resources.

i don’t know if you mentioned it already but the fact that this service is only available in the us and not in the uk may be due to the existance of the bbc iplayer or imp or whatever they call it now which will provide far more bbc content in the uk but if that is still going ahead it playes only the last weeks programes and does not have access to archive content. and sice this will be intended for licence payers those of us with no licence will be on dangerous ground useing it when a no licenced service is avlible but unacesable.

I didn’t realise that you blogged such subjective, inflammatory comments on this blog. I’m kind of disappointed actually.

The BBC makes some of the best television in the world, at least 10x better than most of the CHEAP CRAP that invades our airwaves from the US. Now that’s subjective garble.

To the UK guy who was complaining about having to pay, I understand. We pay through taxes here in AU to support the ABC, even if we don’t have a TV. The fact that the ABC makes great television, the kind that would not exist on commercial TV makes me happy to pay that. If the ABC started giving all its content away for free I’d be quite happy, as it has already been paid for by me. It should now be in the public domain. This is the same thing as in the US where most of what government departments create becomes public domain. Mapping data, NASA space pictures etc. That’s how it should be. Paid for once, why should we have to pay again!

Tarwin
Australia

I’ve been waiting for this to happen for several years now. From the earliest days I have hoped and waited for the day when IPTV would come alive. I’ve lived in areas most of my life that have had minimal to no television reception (e.g. in the country and in apartments in the suburbs).