Comments on: CBS Testing Social Viewing Room: Watch Stuff With Strangers And Talk During The Show

By: Old School TV Shows but New School TV Watching Habits « teng time

Old School TV Shows but New School TV Watching Habits « teng time — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:52:07 +0000

[...] Chat where you join social viewing rooms and watch a show with other people. They rolled this out in October as well. You’re able to “comment” which is basically chatting with the other people in [...]

By: FanSection Blog - Combining Sports and Social Media

FanSection Blog - Combining Sports and Social Media — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:58:42 +0000

[...] TV a social experience? My opinion is that because of the synchronous relationship required, the CBS social viewing rooms would not be successful. A big reason users watch TV shows online is because of the convenience [...]

By: TVloop Blog - Discussing TV and Social Media

TVloop Blog - Discussing TV and Social Media — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:27:46 +0000

[...] ABC recently won a Webbie award for its online video player by Move Networks while CBS.com has announced the implementation of Social Viewing Rooms where viewers can chat it up with other CSI fans while [...]

By: CBS Tries to Make Online Viewing Social « NewTeeVee

CBS Tries to Make Online Viewing Social « NewTeeVee — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:16:12 +0000

[...] The Hollywood Reporter writes today that the new service launches this week, TechCrunch had written about it earlier this month. Visitors to CBS can enter Social Viewing Room for a number of its [...]

By: CBS launches live, social, chatty video player

CBS launches live, social, chatty video player — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:39:37 +0000

[...] [via TechCrunch] [...]

By: bobi

bobi — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:08:19 +0000

I believe ClipSync had this kind of app more than two years ago and realized it’s a much better experience with the right content and the right passion for it.

By: CBS launches live, social, chatty video player

CBS launches live, social, chatty video player — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:06:36 +0000

[...] TechCrunch] [...]

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:04:03 +0000

I won’t pretend I’m someone else and plug our site as I suspect some people do. But we have a similar product that I of course think is much better…

I’d like to tell you about View2gether (www.view2gether.com). It’s very cool and does something the same but just a lot better. We let you search for videos right within our app on YouTube, Dailymotion, MySpace etc.

There is a built in search and results are consolidated into a single response where you can “Pick” videos from to add to the playlist which is consumed by our player and synched live across everyone viewing within that “Lounge” and we support full-screen, embedding, adding videos by URL, user skipping (by vote) and a full IRC/IM style chat so you can talk comfortably instead of in little bubbles.

Anyway. Like I’d like those of you that think this is great concept to try it out if you want to see the potential of this and how it can be done better than ClipSync.

Cheers,

Jordan
http://www.view2gether.com

By: bobi

bobi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:02:14 +0000

This post is talking about an old site I guess. I hope I am right but the service is live with all of CBS shows. I saw it and had fun with like 20 people in a viewing room. go to http://www.cbs....=true&cc=83

It’s really cool stuff, it made the show better for me. I can’t wait for it to be in sports.

By: S

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:39:27 +0000

I think this would be a good idea if they’d make it possible to embed on other sites. The people who visit my site would like to be able to watch certain things together and chat. But not if it were only limited to US.

By: Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2008-10-02

Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2008-10-02 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:02:56 +0000

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By: CBS tests online group viewing…wait, haven’t we seen this before? « OmniVideo: The Future of Video

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:55:28 +0000

[...] tests online group viewing…wait, haven’t we seen this before? Today we read from TechCrunch that CBS Labs has built a social online viewing experience — you can watch with other people, [...]

By: Travis Reeder

Travis Reeder — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:17:35 +0000

I did this exact same thing for Hulu vids on TV Fanatic ( http://apps.fac....com/tvfanatic/ ). Chatting while watching a video is really great, even if is it on demand.

By: Bryan99

Bryan99 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:55:36 +0000

Interesting – but restricting it to just CBS kind of loses the idea of an open community – needs to be ALL SHOWS – and maybe then i’d hop on.

By: tony

tony — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:23:48 +0000

good concept,I think it will be popular.

http://gatesand...s.blogspot.com/

By: CBS Testing Online TV With Live Chat

CBS Testing Online TV With Live Chat — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:31:32 +0000

[...] TC Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: Vid-Biz: NBC, Vudu, CDN Prices « NewTeeVee

Vid-Biz: NBC, Vudu, CDN Prices « NewTeeVee — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:30:48 +0000

[...] CBS Labs Tests Social Vid Viewing; feature lets you watch and comment on shows with your friends. (TechCrunch) [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:24:17 +0000

Lycos Cinema has had viewing parties for more than two years. The site was revamped this past spring, enhancing the video modes and improving the ‘watch & chat’ features for friends and fans to interact in real-time while watching. Content ranges from indie and mainstream movies in all genres to ABC Family shows such as “Greek” and “Secret Life of the American Teenager” to Mixed Martial Arts to classic TV episodes from The Beverly Hillbillies, Lassie, Andy Griffith and others. The site is currently hosting viewing parties for Michael Moore’s newly released documentary, “Slacker Uprising.” No registration or download is required. http://cinema.lycos.com

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:23:25 +0000

it has lots of potential. this is what forums messages board do currently.

By: Bex

Bex — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:52:22 +0000

You can also do this on Facebook with the tvClickr app. It has shows across multiple networks and football

By: The Mod Squad. Blog. » Blog Archive » TechCrunch Gets it Wrong

The Mod Squad. Blog. » Blog Archive » TechCrunch Gets it Wrong — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:31:19 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington published a post today on CBS’ new Social Viewing Room. You can now go to the CBS website and watch a show [...]

By: Justin Gunn

Justin Gunn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:29:16 +0000

Sorry, bad url… HERE it is:

http://www.current.com/debate

By: Justin Gunn

Justin Gunn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +0000

Tune in tonight to Current TV for Hack the Debate – a unique partnership between Current and Twitter. Include “#current” in any tweet and it could pop up on screen during the debate allong with your user name and avatar!

More info here:

http://www.curent.com/debate

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:05:38 +0000

ABCFamily has been doing this for years with Lycos.

By: More CBS Social Viewing Room Videos

More CBS Social Viewing Room Videos — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:55:11 +0000

Less space. We can interact each other more effectively. Soon we will be keep in touch more closely