Will VeohTV Be a True DVR for Online Content?
Veoh.com has been around for a while now as a video sharing site similar to YouTube. But now, they are preparing to launch their new application, VeohTV, which they are calling a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) for Internet Video. Basically they are saying that it will be similar to a ReplayTV or TiVo but instead of recording from a cable or satellite TV source VeohTV will record and store Internet Video sources.
As it appears now (it’s still in beta testing), VeohTV will arrange videos from the Internet into something similar to a Channel Guide that you would see on a TV Cable box or DVR. For example, most of the major networks now offer streaming video of the full episodes of their prime time shows on the Internet. So if I wanted to watch the latest episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, I could go to the NBC website and watch it there. With VeohTV, I will have an NBC.com channel, and (somehow) they will have all the available videos listed and I can record them and watch them at anytime through VeohTV.
Of course, this is all speculation. Currently, VeohTV is in closed beta testing and is only available by invitation. But these features (as described on the VeohTV site) are what they are expecting to be in the final version, which is scheduled to be released sometime later this summer.
We’ll have to wait and see what the final product looks like, but VeohTV sounds good. Maybe too good to be true, but I’m hoping …
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ReplayTVBlog.com » VeohTV Beta First Impressions said
am July 4 2007 @ 10:03 pm
[…] As I wrote last week, VeohTV is being called a possible DVR for Internet Video. Currently in beta testing and available by invitation only, I applied for the beta and received my invitation about a week later. While I haven’t spent much time with VeohTV (yet), here are some of my first impressions of the current beta version. […]