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Watching TV on the Computer

You may also be interested in watching television programs on a computer. This is also possible with the right wired or wireless equipment installed. Some TV broadcasts are accessible directly via the Internet and no connection to a television is required. Those who own Digital Video Recorders (DVR) may also prefer to connect their computer to the DVR rather than the television directly.

Hall Of Shame

We live in an age where the ability to use video effectively on the web has long been proven.

So,I hope other readers of this blog will join in to add those sites who should know better. That is, websites that could easily make an effort and add a decent video service rather than stick up any old rubbish.

Let me start with the twitters at the RSPB for their truly dreadful offering.

New KIT

Credit where credit is due. I don't think KIT Media is out of the woods, but this is a company that has been actively managed out of its dodgy Roo TV past and has become the rollup in the Internet TV industry.

The emphasis is on performance and the former management's confused and sprawling empire seems to have been taken under control and focused into a video marketing company.

Smart move. Video marketing companies will develop just like web deevlopment companies appeared in the 90/00s.

A $40m revenue stream that, it claims, is EBITDA positive would create the first Internet TV company that has made a mark on the public markets.

There's little doubt that KIT is doing better than its CEO's previous employer at Jump TV.

Moral Dilema

A recent Forrester research project got me thinking. Its conjecture was pretty simple - give up TV or give up internet?

Now, I live in a house in Wales where there's internet but no TV (OK, there's the free Sky thing, but this often collapses in bad weather).

Now that you can get most of ITV, BBC, C4 and S4C online I'd go with the latter. TV without email. TV without looking up that vague fact online. TV without being on a chat service at the same time... In the Top Trumps analysis, the internet has it.

But the question is what needs rephrasing for me. Let's try:

1) Any TV service in the UK

or

2) A reliable 2MBps internet service

Well, this would be no comptition. 2) would win any day.

Commercial Break

Another irrelevant moment, but forgive me for wondering why we're threatening to sue Iceland for the money they lost UK investors and we're not threatening to sue Bush's US, who lost our companies and citizens far more money in a far more reckless way.

I suppose Governments act like businesses - you only bully people you know are weaker than you.

Roq Bottom

Sad to say that pay-per-view internet video aggregator Jalipo is no more. The company was recently acquired by mobile video provider Rok Entertainment and has now been put into insolvency. I'm not sure what was behind the original strategy or what elements of the original company that have been retained. My suspicion is that it was Jalipo's relationship with content companies that was attractive to Roq.