The Venice Project moves into testing phase
The Venice Project this week starts to open up beta-testing of the service to a much larger group of users. The ambitious effort aims to combine TV-quality video with the interactive and community features of the Internet. The system is also designed to keep down the cost of video distribution by relying on peer-to-peer technology rather than a large group of servers.
This puts them in direct completion with BitTorrent.
But Gerry Kaufhold, a principal analyst at In-Stat, views the Venice Project as a more innovative melding of the Internet and TV. He said the service would allow users to create their own customized versions of TV shows or other content, within the limits of copyright. Thanks to Mat Hall of the Venice Project in correcting this mis-information.
The project goes into test mode and likely will last for months. I'll report things back to you when something real happens.
Posted by admin on December 15th, 2006 :: Filed under Internet TV
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December 15th, 2006
You mentioned that “The Venice Project will encourage consumers to edit content such as TV shows and distribute it virally…” — this seems to have arisen as a result of some misunderstanding along the line; it’s important to note that consumers will NOT have the ability to edit any content that appears on The Venice Project, and content owners will have complete control over how their content is distributed and consumed. That said, there will be a lot of interactive functionality built into the content you will see as the software and services evolve…
Cheers,
Mat