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NBC, News Corp Join to Create YouTube Clone

Posted by Zonk on from the we're-taking-our-ball-and-going-home dept.

Brett writes "It's official: NBC Universal and News Corp have announced their plans to create a video sharing site of their own. The joint venture will features both TV and movie shows in full length, including episodes of '24,' 'My Name is Earl,' and movies like 'Borat.' The plan is to also syndicate content on other portals like MSN, MySpace, and Yahoo! It's unclear how YouTube's previous deal with NBC relates to this, but it's clear that the major players are now shunning YouTube."

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  1. I have a question by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is any video sharing site to be labelled a youtube clone?

    Just like newbies to the intarweb would think that Yahoo is a "google clone"?

    Is this a "Apple invented the computer, mp3 player, and are currently inventing the phone right now and we cant wait" type of a deal?

    I just remember seeing video on the internet pre-youtube.

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  2. NBC = bad track record by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope it is better than NBC's Video Rewind site which lets you view previous episodes of their shows. It is so glitchy that it is probably easier for an end-user to install BitTorrent, find a site, and download it. They use Flash video, so you get postage-stamp size video. They divide it into 6 sections and run short commercials in-between -- shorter than network TV commercials, which would be nice... except that half the time it gets stuck and doesn't move on to the next section. Then if you try to seek it displays another commercial. And it plays the video before it is buffered so you have to pause/play it manually and guesstimate when it is safe. Then of course, if you mis-click, or the playback glitches, you seek and get an ad and have to start over. It took me 2 hours to watch a 1 hour episodeof Lost.

    To top it off, it crashed when I exit the browser (Safari) which is sad since I can spent hours watching videos on YouTube without it crashing.

    Why can't they just stream an .MP4 file? It's a standard, cross-platform format that every OS has a player for. Sheesh.

  3. Re:If you build it they will come by vought · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This will fail miserably.

    -Can't store content for future use.
    -Windows/Explorer ONLY
    -Advertising
    -Crappy format

    And most importantly:

    PEOPLE DON'T SIT AT THE COMPUTER TO WATCH HALF-HOUR SHOWS.

    Apple has this figured out. Why do these people feel the need to reinvent the wheel?*

    *Actually, it's to make themselves feel smart. When this fails - and it will - they can blame filesharing, technology, or some other bugaboo.