Google has a fascinating beta of a video upload program.
Individuals and TV stations or production facilities are invited to use the service.
FAQs are here.
Al Gore’s Current TV is partnering with Google, and if the Google Beta is a success, he won’t need cable TV to carry his programming. In fact, cable TV could become rather irrelevant if this web-based on-demand video succeeds.
Google Betas Video Upload Program
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Easy there, Ms. Ochman. Cable TV irrelevant? First, we are many broadband light years from enjoying the capacity to stream 100+ channels to 60,000+ homes with multiple viewers in each home. One of the beauties of todays cable or satellite technology is that I know I can turn to and channel and find it immediately playing. I have no idea what the bandwidth capacity requirement would be to ensure millions of homes have constantly streaming video channels of content, but it slightly boggles the mind. Even if you consider most viewers surf between the same 5-10 channels most of time, it’s valuable to remember there are 300,000 million television viewers in the United States alone. And during a typical 8p-11p primetime viewing hour 50,000,00+ are simultaneously watching some television program on the 100+ channels available.
I’ll make a wild prediction here that the New York Times has a blogger on their editorial staff before cable television goes away.
I see your point about streaming. But I also remember when the video artist Nam June Paik made the futuristic prediction that one day, in the future, there would be many hundreds of cable channels from which to choose. That prediction came true soon after. And with satellites, there are not hundreds, but thousands to choose from.
I bet The New York Times will have a blogger on their editorial staff before the year is out. They bought About.com so they already employ several hundred bloggers.