We are all used to using television guides, they are a fairly standard fair with a fairly standard interface that has also been translated to the web. You either get a list of channels across the top or down the side and a hour or half hour interval time list going in the other direction. The other thing that is standard across TV guides, especially the online variety, is that [...]
Picture the scene, wife sat on the sofa watching some soap from a month ago she has recorded on Sky+. Youngest child on my iPod Touch playing games so wife can watch the soap and not that same Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs DVD – AGAIN! Older children in bedroom and kitchen doing their homework – hopefully. And me sat at the computer in the living room watching [...]
I wrote a blog post two weeks ago about SeeSaw, the new television on demand service – mainly for archive content. This service, currently in a limited invite only beta, is born out of the ashes of the rejected Project Kangaroo – planned by BBC, ITV & C4 but rejected by the BBC Trust. When I first got my invite I was very excited by it, but I was instantly [...]
SeeSaw is the name of the online video service that was born out of the ashes of the fallen Project Kangaroo – purchased from the consortium of broadcast partners by the telecommunications infrastructure company Arqiva. Arqiva was born out of a history in broadcast infrastructure running transmission faciltities as Crown Castle. Now they’ve moved into online transmission with the launch of SeeSaw, a service that will allow you to watch [...]
