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Internet Video – In One Place

It’s 11 AM on Tuesday, 3/18 and I still haven’t made it to the VON conference, but it looks like the really big news is from the show’s organizer, Jeff Pulver.  He has co-founded a company, Prime Time Rewind, with Amit Shafrir which serves to aggregate network content that is already out available on the Internet.  

It looks like it does an automatic embed of content from sites like Hulu.   They haven’t published how they will monetize this service, but it looks to be advertising based.  One of the things I notice is that an ad for Pulver TV that could be sold to others. 

The "cube" navigation provides a 3-dimensional view of the content.  A user rotates the cube and to find a particular program on a given network or by category.   By becoming a member, one can customize the navigation to their liking.  The cube is only used for the first level of navigation.  After a show is selected, the navigation reverts to a 2-D view.  The navigation cube may be embedded on other web sites, as shown below.  

This is only an Alpha release, so it may not be perfect, but it points to where things are going with regards to broadband video.  

 

Author Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

By Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

Ken Pyle is Marketing Director for the Broadband Forum. The mission of this 25+-year-old non-profit “is to unlock the potential for new markets and profitable revenue growth by leveraging new technologies and standards in the home, intelligent small business, and multi-user infrastructure of the broadband network.”

He is also co-founder of Viodi, LLC and Managing Editor of the Viodi View, a publication focused on the rural broadband ecosystem, autonomous vehicles, and electric aviation. He has edited and produced numerous multimedia projects for NTCA, US Telecom and Viodi. Pyle is the producer of Viodi’s Local Content Workshop, the Video Production Crash Course at NAB, as well as ViodiTV. He has been intimately involved in Viodi’s consulting projects and has created processes for clients to use for their PPV and VOD operations, as well authored reports on the independent telco market.

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