Thursday, June 21, 2007
Joost Not Alone in Worrying About Veoh
Ever since the AlwaysOn Media conference earlier this year where Jason and I met Dmitry Shapiro of Veoh I've been extremely intrigued by the company.
Even though Joost and the AppleTV are getting all of the publicity and attention, Veoh is silently kicking the tar out of everyone in the IPTv industry. The AppleTV is a $300-$400 piece of equipment which is limited to iTunes, YouTube and private collections for its content and the one thing about Joost that I've questioned since trying the application is its content. The content is controlled by its publishers and the Joosters as AppleTV is controlled by iTunes. To me those are quite limiting. Enter Veoh.
Veoh having just annouced the release of VeohTV later this week, takes the Joost content problems and squashes them with a vengeance. With VeohTV the web is your DVR. Any video on the web can be played on your PC or even better your TV. As Dmitry showed us, nearly any PC can handle the VeohTV application and add a cheap IR remote and some video cables and you have an inexpensive gadget that puts the AppleTV to shame while at the same time embarrassing the content library of Joost.
The winner of the IPTv war will be the winner of the video content battle. With Veoh's ability to push video to the main video sites, publishers will turn to Veoh first giving Veoh a strong surge towards winning the video content battle.
Does anyone else think AppleTV is in the same Veoh-worrying boat as Joost? Or am I completely nuts?
More coverage of Veoh on techmeme.
Posted By Matt O'Hern at 12:52 AM
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