Personal Broadcasting - now there are two
It didn’t take long for the concept of Justin.tv to be leveraged into a full service. USTREAM.tv came along a few months ago and has quite a following with rich content, and people like me who just broadcast while they’re working, just a live feed with little going on.
blogTV just entered public beta a few days ago and has some very interesting features that USTREAM currently doesn’t have. One of them is the ”co-host” feature that allows you to select a co-host and have them broadcast live audio & video alongside yours in a type of multipoint broadcast, pretty neat. blogTV also allows has a fantastic “broadcast control panel” that allows you to see the video you are sending out along with the chat window and what other current live broadcasts are going on in your “channel”.
Personally I really like the polish that blogTV has put into their product, but currently use UStream.tv for my “live” show. One of the nifty benefits that UStream.tv has over blogTV is the embedable code that allows you to embed the video feed into any web page you want.
For the time being, I’ll be using both services and evaluating the features as they mature to see what actually works best. I’ve got some ideas for a number of “shows” and I may try to set them up to see how well it works. I do recommend that anyone interested in creating a show try both services to see what works best for you.
Have you used either service (or others)? Please let me know what you think of them or the idea of personal broadcasting in general.
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Comments
Comment by Rick Mahn Well AfterHoursNightParty, I’ve had a really good experience with blogTV so far. Sorry that you didn’t, but the mods are there for a purpose.
UStream.tv is making changes almost daily, and you may see what your looking for in the future. Don’t hesitate to submit suggestions and ideas to the staff there.
You should also check out Operator11, which is another live broadcasting site.
Comment by Vlad operator11 is more akin to having a tv studio, it allows me to mix streams & prerecorded videos live..you should definitely check it out..
Comment by Rick Mahn Vlad, I’ve just discovered Operator11 and will investigate it as well as another new one that has similar capabilities called Mogulus that is in private beta right now.
I’m always looking for new tools and services that augment the existing ones. Thanks!
Blogtv suxs really bad mods are always bothering you and they have different rules for different users. I was on blogtv for almost 3 months and I told them to FU and came to Ustream.tv.
It is a bit getting used to and a co-host would be nice but I can do a show on my own and I hope to start doing daily shows here as I did on blogtv before. One thing Ustream.tv needs to do is have a preview channel that shows the live shows going on with active video instead of just show titles.
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