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NBC, News Corp Join to Create YouTube Clone
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."
B.S.
It's crap - not community driven. It misunderstands the interest in YouTube.
YouTube is not popular because people are "snagging free stuff" that they already have on their Tivo, etc. Repackaging the TV is stupid. That is an aspect of YouTube, and the only one that this is a reaction to.
The Corporations who are driving this "partnership" never even heard of "All your base are belong to us" - let alone understood what it means. The Internet is a social phenomenon, not just a marketing experience.
People who've destroyed their creative thinking process in the marketing field fail to understand this.
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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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Um...........
You really think the people in charge of this little venture know that 'mashup' is a word that sometimes doesn't involve food?
Be serious. This isn't going to end YouTube. This might cause a little healthy competition. Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed because YouTube isn't clusterf*d with video ads all the time, and this will be. There's little chance you'll get to watch short clips of pieces of the Daily Show. You'll get to watch the entire thing, and commercials will come with. Lame? Yeah, kinda.
And my bet is their solution will be DRM enhanced. Another little bit of lame.
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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.
.MP4 file? It's a standard, cross-platform format that every OS has a player for. Sheesh.
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
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.
...join 'em.
Hey, I think it's great that NBC would want to get into the video offerings business. Reason why people post copyrighted material to YouTube is so it will be available. NBC has already been making overtures in that direction with some of their shows (like the standup routines from 'Last Comic Standing' S5) and Fox has performances from 'American Idol' on their site, ergo you don't have to go to find a Torrent or browse YouTube et aliis to see what you missed.
And for that reason, NBC's assimilating seems a smarter move than Viacom's bitching, IMHO.
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Almost every discussion about music, movies or TV shows here has countless replies saying "But the industry doesn't GET IT, man!! Their business model is OUTDATED!! If they gave me this content for cheap with no DRM I wouldn't have to pirate it!!"
So here comes an announcement that they'll be putting content online for FREE - and they'll be the ones making the money from the ads, not youtube, which seems only fair to me - and again I see replies of "but the industry doesn't GET IT!!". I think that's kinda funny.
This site could go either way, but to me it's the first indication that they might be starting to "get it".
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