Skype, Venice, Television
Posted on October 28, 2006
Filed Under Channels and Content, European Web 2.0 |
The story that Skype’s founders are setting up a TV service on the web has been circulating for a while but last week I got talking to a company who’ve been approached to provide content, they say under strict conditions of confidentiality.
The new Venice project when launched will be a safe harbour for quality content as defined by the old media paradigm. In other words it will rely on content from directors with established reputations and its navigation and search will rely on established criteria - directors, producers, channels, production houses, that have weathered the tests of time.
I find that slightly disappointing. Of course services like Tioti will provide some of this on a search and find basis. Venice though seems pucker mainstream. Its unique innovation maybe appying some traditional measure of quality. That means it won’t simply be another Jump TV aggregating any number of channels for niche and ethnic audiences. Its impact though will be felt more by TV stations who are slow to move into video-on-demand. It will ultimately be a schedule disruptor more than anything, a disruption that will anyway take place. There must be more to it than that!
Crunchgear says there is - the content will be usable by anyone but that doesn’t come through in the Digg debate where reference is right made to Democracy Player as a source of quality programming and the fact that the story is a month old and yahoo which is propagating it today is now only late on the story but I would add letting Reuters, who originated it, get away with a lazy Saturday.
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