Gotuit Launches Broadband Video Portal

ReadWriteWeb writes "Richard MacManus covers the launch of Gotuit.com, a new broadband video portal from VOD (video on demand) company Gotuit Media. The portal is free to use and offers instantaneous video delivery of professional media content, such as the latest popular music videos and movie trailers. Content is streamed directly to the user's PC, so there's no buffering or download. The UI is slick and navigation between videos is near seamless. But the most exciting part of Gotuit.com is perhaps its ability to search inside video items. Gotuit has built a system which enables their staff to 'tag' specific points inside each video with appropriate metadata. This allows users to create playlists of video snippets — based on keywords — and share those with other people. Gotuit is different from YouTube and Google Video in that it offers professional media content and its video streaming technology is more advanced."

PR bullshit

Content is streamed directly to the user's PC, so there's no buffering or download.

Wow, streaming video without any need to buffer -- it just starts playing with 0 bytes. And look! You don't even have to download it -- the video must just automagically appear on your hard drive or something.

offers instantaneous video delivery

Bullshit... total PR fluff.

of professional media content

Translation: no, you can't upload stuff. We get paid by the professional media firms to advertise their videos in your face. It's like a 24/7 all-advertising site that you can't contribute to, except to build playlists which consist of all ads. Please participate in this site so that we can sell your marketing data back to the professional media firms.

enables their staff to 'tag' specific points

The fact that the PR firm put quotes around the word tag shows that they know nothing of the technology.

This allows users to create playlists of video snippets - based on keywords - and share those with other people.

The only way the tagging would have been remotely clever is if users could tag certain parts. But who'd want to create playlists of ads anyway?

Gotuit is different from YouTube and Google Video in that it offers professional media content

I suppose lying is a longstanding tradition for PR firms.

and its video streaming technology is more advanced.

Oh, and Google kills babies.
 

No Substance

Going to their site and clicking around a bit reveals there isn't anything of substance on the site. Even news articles link to nothing.

Different from YouTube?

Why Gotuit is different:

What differentiates Gotuit from the likes of YouTube and Google Video, is twofold:

1) Gotuit is strictly about professional content. It's partnering with mainstream media video producers. This means you won't get the home grown humour, survailence footage, etc etc, that makes youtube so fun (see this attempted mugging [youtube.com] for an example)

2) The technology is more advanced than their Internet competition currently. Gotuit has instantaneous video delivery - it is streamed directly to the user's PC and so there's no buffering or download. (uh huh, no buffering). As a bonus side effect of choosing flash nine, we're encouraging WMF & all other linux users to a) not use our service (no F9 for linux until 07) and b) discourage as many people as they know to do likewise.

Meh, more sanitized 'professional' content, none of the free, cool stuff. No linux support. Lame.

Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it?

Maybe I'm simply not getting it, but... is that name supposed to mean something, or is it just a random assembly of letters? I can't figure out whether I'm supposed to read it in a special way or not, and even reading the article isn't helping (how discouraging - see whether I'll do that again in the future!)

Anyway, interesting idea, but it needs a better name even if it does mean something. I can't be the only one who's confused over it. At least I really hope I'm not.

Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it?

Actually, the word "gotuit" is from the Czech for "more meaningless content"...

Why Gotuit is different

1) Gotuit is strictly about professional content

Sorry guys, no paris hilton.

2) The technology is more advanced

Light years beyond everybody else, they are using streaming video! wow!



Doesn't sound like too strong of an argument.

unclear on this whole tagging thing

the appropriate "tags" for this article, in my opinion, would be "slashvertising", and "blog", indicating the reasonable suspicions one should have well in hand to approach a posting like this.

is that the point, or is tagging for something else?

Re:unclear on this whole tagging thing

or is tagging for something else?

I use tagging so that I'm appropriately biased before I read the article. If it says duh or fud I then I know that I should get pissed off before I read it, and as soon as I'm finished I should make a post that complains about what a waste of my time it was, and why /. shouldn't be posting this crap.

Yay.. no WMV?

=).. finally a site which does streaming without stupid WMV...

Impossible

Gotuit has instantaneous video delivery - it is streamed directly to the user's PC and so there's no buffering or download.

TFA could use an edit, author seems to have swallowed PR guff without playing some basic logic games. Streamed directly to a PC? Prey tell how you would stream the video indirectly. And inless you have clear direct access to the video source, some form of buffering would surely be necessary.

Come on /., we can do better than piss poor press launches from mediocre video sites.

Re:Impossible

Regular content sites stream indirectly via the internet. All the traffic goes through one or more servers until it reaches your PC. Gotuit instead streams directly: When you register on their website a magical 10 Gbps NIC appears in your computer. That magical NIC is directly connected to the Gotuit mainframe, so they can stream directly. That's also why there is no buffering.

Oh, did we forget to mention the ads in your face?

How silly of us! Yes, every once in a while you'll be forced fed a nice dose of consumer-oriented video pablum to insult your intelligence. Enjoy!

Not for me

For the complete Gotuit experience, you'll need to download the latest Flash player, free from Macromedia.
Click the icon to download now.
Go ahead, we'll wait for you.

If you use Linux, the "latest" is 2 versions behind the windows one, and you can't enter this site.. :( I'll keep with the good 'ol youtube & google video...

No buffering?

"Content is streamed directly to the user's PC, so there's no buffering or download."

I loaded the page, waited 9 seconds before the video played and watched 41 seconds of the "Hip Hop" video before it stopped playing (WinXP Pro, FF 1.5.0.4, 3m/384k cable connection).

A better use for portals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if3Qv2tHyfA&search= portals [youtube.com]

BIG SITE WIPEOUTS

BIG WAVE WIPEOUTS
See some of the top surfers in the world bite it on some of the biggest waves. Watch the Big Wave Wipeout playlist in Gotuit Sports...

---Amazing, a blank screen!

The technology is more advanced than their Internet competition currently, it so advanced your PC can not even display it!
Gotuit has instantaneous video delivery - it is streamed directly to the user's PC, it happens so fast that there's no buffering or download, or even a picture!

Nothing to see

They only have a semi-empty homepage. None of the links in that site works. Not even a single link.
Everything points to a "nothing to see here" page.

If you want to promote a site, at least make it work...

As Penn&Teller would say, this is bullshit.

Instaload

So, I realize that this is impossible, but I definately noticed almost no lag time (a second at most) both for initial playback and pause-restart. The longest lag point is when the page itself is being loaded. (DSL, highest transfer rate I've ever seen coming down it is 110KBps (Torrent).)

Full speed back to the past professor!

Let's do streaming video without buffering, such an excellent early 1990s idea! *_*

another gratuitious use of "content"

offers instantaneous video delivery of professional media content, such as the latest popular music videos and movie trailers

It has video such as music videos and movie trailers.

Stripped of the hype and the usual misuse of "content" that's what it is.

"Content" doesn't get delivered here; video does. Its content if any is another question. "Media content" is at best redundant but more likely means nothing. "Professional media content" means commercial; recorded for money, generally passed off as entertainment, more likely promotion.

You may watch video here. You may be entertained. Don't expect content. That's the short and sweet of it.

What's in a name?

Gotuit. Looks like: Got-uit, but what's a "uit"?

GoToIt, or Go2It would have been smoother, dontcha think?

Benefit to "professionally produced content"?

Is there any benefit to having this "professionally produced content"? I mean, there's still a few good things on TV, and even occasionally at the theatres - could it be that having a strong commercial incentive could allow for more niche shows to take off online, where the demographics are better targetted? Could Gotuit allow for better service to small viewerships, especially those who are fans of low budget comedies? (Red Dwarf, anyone?)

Not a portal...Not broadband...

They've launched a site with a few videos on it.

Isn't the definition of a portal something that takes you somewhere else?

50kB/sec (400kbit) is HARDLY what I could consider broadband.

I wouldn't call apple.com/trailers a broadband portal, but at least I can usually get over a 1MB/sec for their HD trailers.

=!Works well with Linux?

I don't know about you guys, but I can't seem to play any videos on there using Firefox on Linux. Maybe it has to do with the fact that we only have Version 7,0,63,0?

Re:Define Instantaneous

That's funny. I just watched Nickleback's 'Savin Me' video and I was actually surprised. It loaded and played instantly. There was one small skip in the first 20 seconds, the rest played flawlessly.