April 26th, 2005
Open Media Network Launches
File this one under, more open source/open media things launching all around us. This week the Open Media Network launched. With heady founders like browser boy Marc Andreesen and others, the “OMN” is based on the following concepts:
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OMN is a free public service designed to help you enjoy a broad selection of movies, public TV and radio, video blogs and podcasts while protecting producer’s copyrights.
Free: Broad selection of free public programs.
Easy to Find and Use: Simple TV-style program guide.
Secure Downloads: Secure, virus-checked background delivery using Kontiki Grid Delivery technology, proven secure, fast and reliable with more than 20 million users.
Personalization: Select your own Season Tickets for automatic deliveries and enter personal Tags to organize programs in your own categories.
Sync: Automatically move programs to iTunes/iPod, Windows Media Player/WMP devices and Tivo.
Source: Open Media Network
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Our Take: Sounds great buy just like the ho hum Google Video, this is a great platform hampered by boring or unknown content. But as a glimpse of video s l o w l y moving into the online world (which is my idea of the true on demand platform) this is another first step at organizing content and syncing it up with digital devices. Now we just have to wait for the studios to open up the real content or find some way to distribute it with a fee and get on with things! Meanwhile, three cheers to the many blogs who get to take over the airwaves.
Alice says:
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April 28th, 2005 at 10:02 am
metermax says:
I’m on a usually zippy cable modem, and I find their guide takes forever to load. I’m hoping they can improve the performance somehow, like shifting any dependencies on the hive delivery of the guide to a central server somehow. I can understand the benefits of shared delivery of the content, because I could see how the speeds dropped when I turned off the shared delivery, but boy was the guide slow. Its almost like the downloads should be managed by their own agent, and the guide should be a website.
I think this concept looks interesting. I believe in downloadable television as a good future concept.
April 29th, 2005 at 6:32 am