i2tv.tv wants to bring your Internet viewing experience to the television. On their about us page, they say with 24 hours your uploaded video will be viewable on television either through a channel or your video on demand feature. There is also a link to write your television provider to get i2tv capability on your television. They also say new interactive features will be coming. What I like about this is the community aspect. You can have friends on the site and share videos with them. I don’t know how I feel about watching video on TV. Since it doesn’t look like my provider has i2tv capabilities, I couldn’t check it out to see what it is actually like.
From at least attempting to create visuals for both the Internet and television, the way you go about creating the two are very different. When creating video for the Internet you are creating it to be seen by one person a few feet away from the screen; whereas for TV, the video is made for the masses. Videos on the Internet are usually more personal than video for television and I’m not sure how Internet video would translate to television
On a similar note, some of the videos I watch on-line, I may not want to watch with other people. It is a little embarrassing to admit how many times I’ve seen the dramatic prairie dog video and the multitude of remixes.
