Dylan Hunter

Got a ping from Matt Brown, one of the co-founders of an interesting IPTV company, NubaTV, a few days ago looking for some feedback.

First, strong kudos to Matt for doing his homework, picking some folks based on profiles from MediaPost, and then contacting to see about building up both some early interest, as well as getting some good early feedback before going broader - very well done.

Some snippits from for any other IPTV folks who might come across:

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“Image quality was definitely nice - certainly no degredation in signal, etc. during the stream, (you’ll, of course, know more about whether the bandwidth expenses to enable make it at all practical). Am presuming that the inability for me to navigate the stream, (i.e. to skip forward or go back) is a limitation of your thing being in beta, rather than a structural choice, (if the latter, would suggest you re-think as am pretty sure that kind of functionality will be considered “minimum required,” unless you’re trying to use this lack of control to try to fit into some of the broadcasting exceptions to the ridiculous world of content licensing, akin to Mercora for audio, in which case, check in with your lawyers - there _must_ be some way of enabling at least partial control).

“Since you’re obviously low on content, why not open it up to folks to upload their own creations, (akin to Atomfilms / Flickr for video, etc.)? Should give you a nice method of getting some viral distro, garnering some free press, etc., all of which should put you in a much more powerful negotiating position if you still want to approach the more classic content holders, (i.e. King World, etc.).

“Once you get at least a decent amount of content on, you’ll hopefully at least get folks to keep your player on their computer as a curiousity for at least a little bit, (for me, I uninstalled - I don’t keep anything on my computer that I don’t have a compelling reason for, especially something that I have to pop a hole into my firewall for - call it the ‘I have no idea what info this thing is sending back without my knowledge’ fear - and without the content, I yanked).”