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December 14, 2006
Riding the gondola
A few weeks ago I took a poke at some good friends for their very upbeat posts on The Venice Project. Thanks to an invitation I was able to take a look for myself today and after installing the beta client on one of our Windows PCs in the office I have to say...
.... cool. Really.
The whole experience, even though still in Beta, has been quite impressive. The UI is slick, I found it quite intuitive to use, content plays very quickly and for the most part I've had no stutters or stalls in playback at all. The quality of the video varies - but I guess that is to be expected depending on where the content actually comes from.
But that's only part of the story.
From my limited beta view I think TVP is an interesting new ballpark when it comes to this type of application. TVP seems to be aiming at becoming no less than a media framework (for want of a better word at the moment) that will allow users to interact in a way that hasn't been possible up to now. The framework/platform seems to be gearing up to become something like a "Media-Eclipse" (again, for want of a better comparison) in allowing you to build and add your own plugins to the system. In the end this could be one of the most important aspects, as "just" being able to play video will quickly become a commodity.
Because of the large number of Open Source savvy developers involved in the project, I'm pretty sure a lot of work is going into the "community" aspects of TVP with community meaning a lot more than just being able to chat about a new episode of Lassie.
A space to watch.
Posted by Matthew at December 14, 2006 05:34 PM
Comments
Hi,
I am also interested in The Venice Project. If you could invite me I would be really happy.
Also, I like to read always your blog, so keep up the good work.
Thanks
Posted by: Feridun Findik at December 15, 2006 10:38 AM
Interesting. There even seems to be some promise for semantic web believers:
http://www.leosimons.com/2006/rdf-at-the-venice-project.html
Posted by: Rainer at December 15, 2006 07:30 PM
Where do people get these invites? Would be great to check it out. Is it streaming video like e.g. YouTube?
Posted by: Mustafa Temiz at December 21, 2006 12:13 PM