Democracy Player Improves

Posted on October 20, 2006
Filed Under Channels and Content, Companies |

The tech sites have focused today on Democracy Players downloadable IPTV suite. Democracy Player is building up its channel portfolio and offering an open standard solution to IPTV viewing. They currently boast 700 channels.

I wrote about it a month ago and would say pretty much the same again - the emphasis with video has to be what can I do with it, not what will I watch.

My guess is they people will increasingly want to do far more with video than watch it - they may want to do their own aggregation, they may want mash-ups but that’s a limited amount of fun, and I guess they’ll also want to create applications.

If I could come home and co-build a little application on my TV set with friends and colleagues around the world I’d be opening up a micro-audience for enablement TV. For example say I want to create a small application for parenting teens, or children’s exercise or home baking?

My argument is that I will see video as ancillary to solving a problem and right now all I get is video as a teaching aid like I get blogs as a discussion and resource. But if I and a few friends say want to create a way to discover if home baked bread using different types of ingredients has x effect on well being, sleep or weight. That’s when I’m enabled rather than taught.


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