Joost competitor and a P2P direct to TV device

Interestingly, it has taken so long before another contenter is going against Joost.
Blinkx is proposing a client similar to Joost. Let me try it out and let you know later

http://www.blinkxbbtv.com/

MyKa is building a box similar to Apple's iTV but it uses the "legal" P2P technology Bittorrent for downloading.
Without a linkage to content provider(s), I'll not be surprised when the authority go after them. Having said that isn't there alot of routers and NAS providing P2P download already?

The difference is, this box allows you to download into a box that directly playback to the TV.
Let see if this goes on. I can't wait to get my hands onto one of this.

Record the singapore local broadcast

A friend of my told me about this services before, I have no time to check it out till recently. And it works. I use to do recording using my PC at home. I have to pre-program, and also leave my PC on throughout... Hey this is a neater way to do that. After which I just stream it from the internet :)
http://www.recordtv.com
This service is only available in Singapore, unfortunately, for the time being channel 5, channel 8 and Channel news asia. Can't wait when they expand it to kids channel and channel U.

BTW, I have watermarked the jpg using gimp as learn from this forum link http://www.gimpdome.com/forum/index.php?topic=5971

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.

Battle for IPTV or rather WebTV continues with Veoh TV

Juz read on latest news that Veoh not only offer video sharing service online like YouTube.

Their latest Veoh TV, after Joost and Babelgum, will not only offer episode for ABC, Fox etc will also offer user generated shows from YouTube, Veoh etc.

I have applied to sign up as beta, can't wait to get my hands on it.
http://www.veoh.com/veohTV/veohTvIntro.html

Content, Content II My List of RSS Feeds

I decided that instead of posting and updating my RSS feeds, I can create my own XML file. Now all you need is to add my link.
http://sg.geocities.com/ing_tes/tversityrss.xml

I have added it to my sidebar on the right for easy access.

Babelgum has open up for Beta

While trying Joost a few months back, stumble on a similar product.
Finally, they have open up for Beta. Quick get it now !

A quick look at it is disappointing.. there are very few videos available. I was complaining the lack of clips available for Joost already... hopefully that's going to change when they gain more attention.

It has pretty much looks of Joost but not quite as powerful. That explains why it did not need a too high-end PC as require by Joost.
As quote from the website
Windows Xp
1.0 Ghz Pentium class processor or better
512 Mb RAM
32 Mb video RAM
Internet connection with 640 Kb/s of download bandwith

One thing I miss is there is no ability to fast forward or reverse.

It also seems unclear to me whelther I should double click or single click.
or some occasion. Let's see how it goes in the coming days

Tversity release 9.10.1

Yap now it supports conversion Divx!! and can also be defaulted to DVD/VCD Mpeg2. Thanks to the team!