Greengrass TV - In Beta but a Contender for Content 2.0

Posted on September 8, 2006
Filed Under Channels and Content, European Web 2.0, European Web 2.0 pipeline |

Greengrass is a TV channel aggregator and distributor that uses a pre-pay model to iron out the costs of doing a heafty amount of streaming:

“Viewers have the flexibility of being able to watch any of the content available, paying higher or lower costs per minute based on the video quality and the content they are watching.”

This looks a bit complicated though:

“To enable you to buy access to pay content from broadcasters on GreenGrass, without having to pay a monthly subscription to each one, we operate a simple credits based scheme. Broadcasters price their programming at a per-minute rate and credits are debited from your GreenGrass account while you are watching. Credits are debited by the second so you will never pay for more than you watch.”

Take a look at the screen and it seems to mean you pre-pay the bandwidth premium - ie you buy credits for a 750K stream or a 125K stream etc. That’s not what I understand reading the blurb, it’s what the screen buttons seem to suggest.

A little clarity would help.

Right now they have a few BBC channels, Cycling TV, Euronews, EMusic, Business Headlines and a few sports related channels.

And get this:

Jaguar Enthusiast TV.


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