I was going to write a quick and dirty guide to BBTV, Blinkx’s new downloadable player, but unless they took a bunch of features offline overnight, most of what they claim in the announcement isn’t yet available in the initial release, (or for none of the content I viewed.)

Blinkx describes BBTV as:

A significant advance in online television that leverages blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology to simultaneously deliver a high-quality television experience over the Internet, and link it to the universe of information on the Web, adding dimension and context to the viewer’s experience.

And it claims to do so by integrating search, “speech-based navigation” and “automatic web linking” which would draw in different forms of media, make discovery simpler and more rewarding, make advertising more effective and make it a unique platform for consuming video.

For now, it’s a shell of what it will become, which is to say, currently nowhere near competing with competitors like Joost or Zattoo in terms of quality, content or interface design. If you’re eager to try it wait for version 2.0, whenever that may be.

Have you used BBTV or any of these features? Drop us a line below.

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