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  • 02:28:28 pm on March 20, 2008 | 0

    In a few months, YouTube plans on catching up with other online services and allow their users to broadcast their own channel live on the Internet. Not only that, but they will be able to do so in higher resolution as Adobe upgrades to Flash Player 9.
    Today’s Herald Sun, an Australian paper, reports one of YouTube’s co-founders claiming it is not the end of TV… yet.

    “I don’t think so, I think you’re never going to have the family hover around on a Sunday night and watch this 320-by-240 screen on the computer monitor,” Mr Chen said while on a visit to Sydney this week.

    “You’re not going to watch a two-hour movie that way, you’re not going to watch a 30-minute talk show, or a 30-minute news report.

    “I don’t think the technology, and the ergonomics, is quite there yet to watch all this content and consume it online, rather than sitting back.”

    But with upgrades coming to YouTube later this year, things can start to shift. Technology like AppleTV may help independent news makers create a global market for themselves on televisions in a few clicks. With prerecorded and live broadcasts, YouTube will start to look like an extension to your favorite television shows or cable network.

    This may not be the TV killer, but it will put powerful technology in the hands of those with small budgets and big ideas. With higher resolution and new opportunities to bring the web into living room entertainment systems, web casting will slowly create new challenges as well as opportunities to well established TV channels, as the attention span for web video increases.

    The early adopters to this new web tool will define the web standards that will go along with a new way of communicating over the web. The question is: how long will it take for news content creators to get involved?

     

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