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As podcasting is getting more popular, it seems that videocasting may just be next. There was a short article on CNET this morning about homegrown TV shows on the Internet, “Web makes TV a medium for the masses�. The article mentions former TechTV personalities’, Kevin Rose and Dan Huard, webshow, Systm. These two basically found a way to move forward post the G4 takeover, to continue to promote what they enjoy via this new medium.

I also ran across a piece in the Washington Post last week by Robert MacMillan that mentions CBS’s revitalization plans for their website. CBS will begin having its correspondents and producers create video reports throughout the day specifically for their website, stuff that doesn’t really make it to the evening news, but still some quality journalism. He quoted USA Today about how the major media companies recognize that as Internet signals are being fed into TVs, that people will begin to pick and choose their content from the Internet versus just what is being offered by the networks at scheduled times.

I find all this very interesting, because working here at SnapStream, we follow everything TV. With the DVR technology, we’re already embracing the watch what you want when you want idea, but it is definitely limited to previously scheduled broadcasts. However, the videocasting and television networks move towards the web opens another door for us. We already have SnapStream Spotlight, which lets our users pull down ESPN’s video clips off the Internet automatically, but as more networks are doing this and videocasting gets more popular, I think we definitely have new territory to explore.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 18th, 2005 at 1:01 pm by Christina and is filed under Industry News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.