Hulu Captions Make Searching TV Streams Easier
Dailymotion the video communion website has released an iPhone app to compete with rival Youtube. The Paris based video website is very popular done?out Europe and has launched two apps. One is free and ad supported whilst a second costs $5.99 and is ad free. The apps will let iPhone viewers watch videos from Dailymotion’s catalog of around 12 million videos. The app also lets users record and upload videos straight to the site.
Watch Dailymotion on iPhone
Although iPhone users could access the dailymotion vids using the nomadic website connection, as YouTube have a default app on the iPhone, they could not really compete.
Whilst the much bigger YouTube application is preinstalled on the iPhone, the Dailymotion app will need downloadingh from the Apple App Store. The player is as functional as YouTube and iPhone users can spirit for videos on Dailymotion, view featured and the most popular videos of the day, browse channels and access their Dailymotion account. IPhone 3GS owners can also record and upload videos to the site using the newly released application.
Will anyone bother with it though if they can watch Youtube’s collection of videos? Who knows, but its good to have a natural selection and another app to show off with in font of other mobile phone users.
Hulu Labs have added another feature to keep Hulu in the headlines, the new captions search feature will make it easier for Hulu watchers to find horizons from any streaming live internet tv show onn the site.
The new Captions Search option will substitute viewers to look for certain keywords within the text and transcript of videos on the site that have been closed captioned, this way you are able to distinguish which successiveness and specific scene of a show features the keywords they selected.
Closed Caption For Easier Search
According to Eugene Wai, Hulu’s VP of production, on the Hulu blog, Caption Search also has a bonus feature: a visual graph of user pursuit through the span of a captioned video. Called the heat map, this feature can be used as a navigational tool (used to jump to a particular captioned section in the video), or to find particularly popular segments within a video.
An interesting part of Captions Search is the linear heat map that shows what users are interested in when watching a video. So it can be used to select only those parts which you are interested in watching. By clicking the blue lines in the map one can directly go to those sections which are of interest.
The online tv technology from the BBC known as ‘Project Canvas’ is expected to be approved later on in the week. The project allowing free use of online tv services from a set-top box is expected to be uncommitted late next year for a terms of around £200 ($480), and letting viewers access websites such as the corporation’s heptad day catch up service, iPlayer straight to the television.
Project Canvas Could Be Approved This Week
It inevitably to be approved as the BBC have so far spent around £1 million on the project, from a budget of £6 million across five years to develop the technology needed to support the service.
“The potential for innovation goes far beyond bringing video-on-demand to the TV set and there’s a huge opportunity for a wide range of new commercial message models to thrive.”
There is of course always a villan in the online tv wars, and for Canvas it has been Sky TV. The artificial satellite broadcaster, has been vociferous in its literary criticism of the project, claiming that the BBC is entirely nonrecreational “lip service” to the idea of other broadcasters participating in the platform. They also expressed concerns that the BBC will use public money to finance a dominate position in the nascent video-on-demand mart, squeezing out competitors and other broadcasters in the make for. The satellite provider also said that the high cost of entry – an estimated £20 million – to become a partner in the project would exclude some smaller broadcasters.
