The Comcast Channel-Adder Guy
Comcast channel-adder guy has been reading my mind again. I first noticed this phenomenon last summer during the world cup. The day before the first game was to be shown on ESPN2, we magically got ESPN2 in HD. That fall was the second instance, this time the local Fox affiliate’s HD hit our lineup, just in time for the first NFL broadcast of the season. Thanksgiving night, the CCAG struck again, sneaking the NFL Network’s HD feed over the top of a previously assigned HD channel in time for the first NFL-N regular season broadcast.
Today, he’s back, adding the Universal HD Channel in time for its coverage of the Live Earth concerts today. Allegiances can change, love can fade, but I always know that the Comcast channel-adder guy has my back.
The Birth of the Video Conversation
I’ve been touring viddler.com this evening and I am impressed thus far.
First-Night Observations:
- The client is hot. It looks sharp and the site is surprisingly responsive. Paging through a user’s videos is instantaneous. Tagging, commenting and responding to a video take place inside the flash box. The fit and finish are exceptional.
- Comments linked to specific parts of a video and video responses are the killer features.
- The concept of video responses turn it from broadcasting to a video dialogue. The dialogue is reinforced by threading the comments.
- A lot of the right people seem to be there. They appear to be compulsive taggers. Twitter seemed to really break out when Scoble got there. He’s not coming here, I would assume, but who else is out there?
- The Obvious Corp influence shows up in the recording capabilities. Hellodeo, sister of Twitter and son of Odeo, integrated recording into their flash client long before similar capabilities came to YouTube. They’re in viddler from day one. I’ll be test-driving it in the next day or so and I’ll embed the results for your review.
- Justin.tv and the live streaming sites that came with it are a curiosity, not a trend. Real-time is an inferior paradigm in a post-Tivo culture. I can only live one real-time life at a time.
UPDATE: Let’s see how this looks…
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