It escapes me why this story is not giving more laps on the web. Sometimes I get ‘conspirators’ … And it Veetle.com is one of those places that should be making much noise …
Spotify has shown that P2P is a viable technology to distribute audio over the Internet in near real time. Go to video should be a matter of throw more bandwidth at it, but little else … And yet, does not sound any initiative in this regard.
Meanwhile, distribute video over the Internet is so expensive that it appears that only the tremendous investment in infrastructure YouTube Google lets not die trying (and even, who knows, make a profit at some point).
And yet, despite the numbers of online video going to take time exponential rate, have a long way to reach the numbers of television: they say out there that the average Internet consumes about fifteen minutes a day on YouTube. At a distance of penetration of the TV, to a world still three short hours of TV, more or less, you eat the average consumer.
While online media are still trying to find a viable business model, there is widespread evidence that people are willing to pay to have zillions of TV channels (and advertisers, in turn, are willing to pay for ‘eyeballs ‘of those viewers, in bulk, much more than pay for online advertising).
What gives, meanwhile, Veetle? The [at least apparent] solution to the problem: a plugin, available for a good mass of browsers and operating systems, allowing the one hand, the possibility of using tele ‘all life’: access to a channel and see what that are emitting (to which was emitting a few seconds, in fact, but we understand …). Nothing ‘on demand’, or you are interested, or ‘change the channel’ or ‘off’. And there’s more. On the other hand, the same plugin offers the possibility of opening your own channel, capturing a TV tuner, scheduling a few videos we have for the computer or, finally, capturing any video source you have connected to your computer … Needs to issue? A fairly powerful computer (but by no means a ‘gun’) and a connection to a higher bandwidth of ‘quasi-reasonable’ (ie, 600, 800 kilobits a megabit … nothing special … unless you have hired a Spanish ADSL, in which case it can give you an edge in the teeth if you get to 512 kilobits).
What Veetle today? As expected, contained at least doubtful legality, a handful of channels devoted to the broadcast of films and television series (with ‘channels’ devoted exclusively to the Simpsons or American Dad, for example) or the reissue of sporting or television (and that is what is in sight: when one begins to broadcast content has the option not to publish its ‘channel’).
What is the short-term future Veetle? First, get to grow and survive in a minefield important, very interested in keeping lobbyists shortages [artificial and relative] of broadcast channels using, inter alia, allegedly written legislation to protect intellectual property. Then legitimize its bid by offering content ‘legal’ (the quotes are on the difficulty of defining legal, illegal and lawless, not anything else). For now, these days are promoting the issue on the cover of a summer football tournament, which is but a modest step in the right direction.
What next? If you survive a high-risk children, the future is limitless. The potential return on a channel based on micropayments, if costs are minimal infrastructure: thematic channels such as those already offered ‘underhand’ broadcasts of sporting events of medium hearing, public events of interest to communities and limited … possibility of putting in the hands of anyone, finally, the possibility of its own television channel.