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Monday, July 17, 2006

Movielink to allow DVD burning...YouTube makes a splash in Sun Valley

According to the LA Times, Movielink is on the very of announcing a new feature: the ability to burn a DVD of the movie you've just downloaded. Technology from Sonic Solutions will allegedly prevent would-be pirates from then making multiple dupes of that movie. (Here's the Wall Street Journal piece for you subscribers.) This is the first sign to me that Movielink is becoming a real business, and delivering something that consumers might want.


YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made a big splash at last week's Sun Valley gathering of media titans, mostly for being the youngest guest there (29). But also for having a Web site that now attracts more traffic than any of the TV networks' sites, serving up 100 million videos a day. The LA Times says that many in attendance, though, were wondering whether YouTube is really becoming one of the Web's "anchor tenants" -- like a Google, Yahoo, eBay or MySpace -- or simply a passing fad. I wonder about this, too: YouTube's biggest challenge now is keeping its giant audience supplied with stuff that they want to watch. I think that the audience's expectations for Web video are going to slowly rise. Pointless and stupid is fun...for a while. If you're old enough, you may recall that `America's Funniest Home Videos' was once the most popular show on television.

1 Comments:

  • Most of the videos on YouTube are lite fare, but every once in a while I'll catch something like 'war' and realize that user submitted video could possibly bring war home in a way TV anchors never will. If Vietnam had nightly news, Iraq 1 had 24x7 CNN, Iraq 2 had embedded reporters, then I think this conflict/war in Lebanon & Israel could be the war we see through the eyes of user submitted videos. If that catches on, the next logical step would be staged propaganda videos with that user-submitted look. Technology creates as many problems as it solves.

    Here's the link to 'war' on YouTube:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=wFlYw9awR5o

    By Blogger mike vogel, at 2:24 PM  

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