Comments on: Saturday Morning: I’m Watching Tubecast

By: Ipuro

Ipuro — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:29:58 +0000

and the 2nd 2!

By: MTB

MTB — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:15:12 +0000

It seems to be done at the moment. How long are they announcing a new version??

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Websenat » Beitrag » tubecast.tv - WebTV — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:35:16 +0000

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By: Pierre Foucart

Pierre Foucart — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:24:35 +0000

“I’m thinking Joost is going to have to move in this direction eventually. They can offer lower quality video via the browser”

Well… Joost is allready offering low quality via its P2P app.

By: Mike Street

Mike Street — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:24:23 +0000

I’m still tryin to get this to load up. It’s taking forever

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:41:31 +0000

this looks really funky.. *checks it out*

By: Ariel Alexandre

Ariel Alexandre — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:15:28 +0000

You see T!V!?

http://www.vide...log.tv/tivi/en/

Launched in June of 2007. A Brazilian site with high quality.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:55:24 +0000

Amen Ryan.

You still can’t beat DivX’s http://www.stage6.com. No other video site, even with a client/P2P download matches the video quality from the DivX guys.

With all the talk about h.264, you gotta wonder if Flash will ever look as good as DivX even with it as Quicktime/iTunes still doesn’t parallel DivX quality and they use h.264 too.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:16:19 +0000

Seems pretty cool. I like the idea of organizing the content – I get lost with YouTube.

By: R.milan

R.milan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:44:10 +0000

first look is cool

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:35:12 +0000

Cool – youtube is addictive enough as it is… now I need to manage my time even better!

Jon

By: Taylor McKnight

Taylor McKnight — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:27:34 +0000

A friend and I launched a similar site called http://chime.tv a few months ago (which did get a write-up on TC, but missed a lot of features in my opinion). We have things like global search and the ability to create your own channels too.

That said, the more the merrier, and while I think Tubecast suffers a bit from the mystery meat navigation, their UI is pretty hot and I *love* the way they show the titles over the videos.

By: ryan spahn

ryan spahn — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:19:40 +0000

Pretty cool …

Someone needs to make a site like this that uses the divx web player! Divx quality is the way to go!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:27:00 +0000

The content on Tubecast loads fast enough for me – certainly not slow. Works flawlessly here – but it badly needs a Search feature and somewhere I can jump to a particular channel instantly. Thanks to TechCrunch for bringing this new site into the spotlight – I hadn’t seen it before.

By: Funny dude

Funny dude — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:20:16 +0000

I was watching preview HAROLD AND KUMAR 2 on youtube.
It’s funny… Watch clip 00:20

http://www.yout...h?v=cY6dBN_pntg

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:18:11 +0000

FYI, the latest flash player 9 update (still in beta) supports H.264 HD video and hardware scaling which makes it perfectly viable for HiDef video playback in the browser.

And, yes you might need to download Flash to playback video on YouTube, but given that it has close to 98% penetration on PCs already – chances are you have it already.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:08:47 +0000

“What I like best about sites like this is that they are completely browser based and no download is required.” Unfortunately, this is a common misconception. YouTube uses FlashVideo, and you need to download and install it before this site and others will work. It’s onlyy because of it’s small size and installed base that it “appears” that this site needs no download. BTW-if this site was using QuickTIme just about the same amount of folcks could use it without a doownload- iTunes/QuickTime is pretty prevalent as well!

By: Don Park

Don Park — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:58:09 +0000

I thought about doing a user-created closed caption service awhile back but gave up on it because I was wary of video silos like YouTube eventually making it really difficult to reuse their video (FLVs). And workarounds like external overlaying (transparent Flash movie placed above YouTube video player has clutter issues.

By: du

du — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:57:32 +0000

Interface design credits to neave.tv.

By: Frankly

Frankly — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:50:23 +0000

perhaps joost could partner with adobe to license their p2p cdn as service via an api for the flex platform. i dont know the specifics but if it is not currently feasible, they could adapt it

By: Jeff Vick

Jeff Vick — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:49:19 +0000

looks pretty cool – great job in giving orly some link love – good payback for her fp diggs!

i wonder why no crunchbase links – you know – can’t let someone go without passing by cb!

By: William Wei

William Wei — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:38:20 +0000

Cool! Very soon, video will come to iPhone app. It only took me about 3 hrs to come up with mine iPhone app. View this link in your iPhone – http://digitfan.../wa/g_rand?g=11

It’s an API that I added to my current digital asset social networking pet project. I hope iPhone will soon unlock for all videos.

By: Mario Hemsley

Mario Hemsley — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:22:11 +0000

Nima,
Thanks for the info, now I have to go study some more to be sure I understand what you said I think you are saying that xhtml, css, and js will be besting P2P, and I agree. Maybe P2P in the future, but for now they are all too large, too cumbersome, and dominated my desktop too much.

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:19:47 +0000

btw flash 9 (the platform flex 2 rests on) is at around 85 percent as of March , so its probably even higher now.

http://www.adob...enetration.html

It’s important to note that Flash 9 is the pivotal version in the flash legacy for two reasons in particular:

1. Actionscript 3 (they take the training wheels off and make the underlying language behind Flash and Flex app , and make it fully ECMAscript compliant)

2. Flex 2 requires Flash 9. Flex 2 is significant because Flex 2 apps no longer require proprietary server side licenses from Adobe that if I remember correctly were charged per cpu, so as you can imagine it could get pricey.

There are a bunch of other reasons why flash 9 is a big step , but they get a little granular and technical. But you get the point.