Learn about new TV on NewTeeVee station

by on June 10, 2008

Congrats to Om Malik and team for starting a new online video channel: all about other new online video channels. I hope to do enough innovative stuff that I get featured here early and often. All the skinny is on TechMeme.

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  • Christopher Coulter
    A boring video show about others who are doing boring video and misc. other loser generated content, the circle circled and squared. Geeky navel-gazing at it's best (which is to say for everyone else, the worst).
  • Hi Christopher, It's actually not a video show, it's a video reviews site. Check it out -- maybe you will find some losers you like.
  • Hi Robert

    Thanks for your kind words. Hopefully you will be checking it out often enough.
  • Hopefully, this gets better.
  • looking forward to seeing what they come up with... Good luck to Liz and Om!
  • hello Christopher, it will get better!.....
  • NewTV
    When people at Microsft, Samsung, Google or Sony use the term NewTV , it means technology (HDTV, VOD, DVR smart home) all joining to create the NewTV model. It can also mean original, high quality content (films, fames and other high quality productions) in addition to the technology.

    So, very few of us in the industry think of NewTV as "loser generated content".

    I have to agree with Christopher Coulter, that much that is out ther is in fact, loser generated. There is little value to the garbage on YouTube.

    As the CE and entertainment companies start introducing their NewTV products and services in 2009 and 2010, you will start to see what I mean.

    Don't confuse YouTube or NewTeeVee with NewTV. NewTV is the best stuff at you will see at CES for example.
  • And don't confuse NewTV, the technology, with NewTV, the cable access station for the City of Newton, MA. They offer some pretty good shows as well. I've wondered why online video creators don't take over the many access centers across the country who are funded by agreements between cities and local cable stations. They have a lot of resources-- studio space, cameras, and able-bodied volunteers willing to learn about new technology. The cable access revolution started in the 70s when companies first laid cable in public streets and a group of activists convinced cities to require channels for anyone to express their views on TV (see http://www.geocities.com/iconostar/history-publ... for a great writeup on the history). It seems like the same thing is happening now with net neutrality. Unfortunately, it is one thing to see the commonalities between the two revolutions (video-based technology, free exchange of ideas, anyone can produce media), and another to get them to work together politically. Node101.org, a group of people who teach others how to videoblog, seems to come pretty close.
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