Comments on: Large Video Host to Kill Their Free Service

By: Nik

Nik — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:59:41 +0000

The sad truth is someone must pay the bills and "free video hosting" is not as free and as persistent as some companies tried to present it. Many companies are cutting similar free services as investors require a working business model. Collect 10 million eyeballs and we will think of making money later does not work at this time.

By: bollosferatv

bollosferatv — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:09:42 +0000

Sorry feed is not working SINCE June … Im a dyslexic with poor English

By: bollosferatv

bollosferatv — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:17:06 +0000

I have my contents in brightcove. Feed dont work with miro until june 2008 need help… I left several messages in panel support but no answer.. Pls anybody helpme??

By: Arturo

Arturo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:37:51 +0000

Miro solves the distribution problem, even for the Norwegian public television. But you still have the hosting problem.

For me, the choice is quite clear: if you go non-commercial, non-profit (not that I am, as a matter of principle, against ads short and well placed, but that's a different question), go all the way – also for the hosting. So, even if Blip.tv is a lesser evil than YouTube, the obvious answer should be Archive.org. Their interface isn't for sure very neat, but who needs their interface? They have a reliable service and some of the biggest servers in the world (second only to YouTube-Google, probably

In your "Make Internet TV" guide you mention as the major downside of Archive.org that it lacks readily-available RSS functionality. Please excuse me if I am talking nonsense, because I barely grasp the concept of Really Simple Syndication, but look at what I found in their forum (http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id...

as far as i know, there are RSS feeds for collections, not for search results. if you have a collection then your feed will be http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.ph...

Does this fulfill your requirements?

By: Thedigi Talhobo

Thedigi Talhobo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:19:33 +0000

I’ve been a big Brightcove fan, and still am. Bummer that this is what they need to do, but they are making it really easy to turn on advertising so you can recoup some of those costs.

By: William Maggos

William Maggos — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:54:20 +0000

I think you are absolutely right, this is the first domino of many. And its exactly why we need the Miro torrent-RSS technology and the Miro Guide. I wish you guys would push this harder, especially at the Newteevee Conference today. You are New TV, truly open. Not like YouTube & Hulu which get endlessly covered over there.

IMHO In a Perfect World, these are the next steps:

- 10-foot interface (ala Front Row)
- support open streaming video (ala VideoLAN and Shoutcast TV)
- merge with Songbird Media Player

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:27:53 +0000

I wonder if Firefox 3.1 with the tag support will help offsetting the troubles caused with events like this one