Tuesday, July 17, 2007

A quick look at VeohTV

VeohTV
A boost of 122 Channels, Ranging from some good source to other free podcasts
The first few CBS - features clips like CSI,
FOX - featuring 24,
NBC, PBS which retrict the audience to be in the US only.
Then you have popular ABC News, CBS News, YouTube.
Trailers from Paramount, MGM. Lionsgate
Podcaster like Rocketboom, Tiki Bar TV, G4TV which you can also find in Democracy.

Some of its clips uses P2P to download but it is not always the case.

I have not been able to watch most clips online. However I was able download and movies. In fact Veoh itself does not restrict file size hence there are full episode shows. Wonder how they can get away with the legal issue.
I've download an ECOGEEK clips I notice that I cannot playback using VLC, since there's a *.enc file that possibly encrypt the file to disallow playback without using VeohTV.
With so many Channels, the worst thing is there's no classification at all. You typically scroll pages to look and the decription for the channel cannot be horrible. Some of the length of the video clip is not valid. I have had the experience when playing back the video it will skip to the next clip, there is no sign of how much of the content is downloaded or how much left.

The good part is the search engine, you search video clips using yahoo, google and Veoh. The return results were quick and a validation of the link is there as well. Best of all a small jpg picture of the clip is immediately available.

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