The Beauty of Online Video
While busy attending and covering the world of online video at this week’s OMMA Conference, I missed one of the most important political speeches given this season, and probably one of the most important speeches about race relations in this country since “I Have a Dream.”
Fortunately for all of us, the online video industry has advanced enough to deliver largely on its promise right now. I was easily able to find Sen. Obama’s speech from Tuesday night on MSNBC.com, and using my laptop to control my HTPC, play it on my TV. Just a few short months ago, this may not have been possible, at certainly not with the quality that the professional broadcasters and leading video sites have been able to deliver.
For bloggers of all types, it is becoming easier and easier for them to embed content from various sources, and bring not just opinions, but the content those opinions are based on, directly to readers. How many political bloggers will be embedding the full speech by Sen. Obama along with their commentary? After two days of digesting nothing but online video, it was nice to be able to come home and relish the idea that its not just hype.
Tags: embed, msnbc, obama, online video
March 27th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Online video really is incredible. I envision a day where everything that we watch on “TV” will be online videos. We will have the ability to watch everything that has ever been recorded, whenever we want to. Now that is amazing!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
We’re getting a lot closer to “everything” being there, but we still need to figure out how to pay for it all. But the advances in the last few months alone are tremendous benchmarks.
But we wont really be talking about “TV” too much. There will be screens, boxes, and input devices. “TV” really means “everyone watching the same thing at the same time,” and social media is pretty much eliminating that difference, at least on the technology front. There will be “live” and there will be “watched collectively” and “watched individually.”