Gotuit Launches Broadband Video Portal 65
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 (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:PR bullshit (Score:2, Insightful)
I'd like to know the going rate, because writing BS advertisements for a free-to-submit news site where the editors seem to be too stupid or too well paid to notice an advert when they see one seems like a profitable business to me.
Re:PR bullshit (Score:2)
Re:PR bullshit (Score:2)
If there truly is a hell, then most PR people have express tickets to it. There, they would be forced to develop euphemisms for the tortures of the damned. Of course, they would change it to "stress and duress" of the "long-term detainees".
Re:PR bullshit (Score:1)
Contrary to popular belief, there is very little money in truth.
Re:PR bullshit (Score:2)
Aside from Google killing babies, what's really up is:
Moral of the story? Utube just needs to compile it's player on Flash 9 and it will also have this magically "advanced" technology. Just, well, noone w
Linux = v7 (Score:2)
Is there some alternative source for a FPv8-compatible player that actually works?
Re:PR bullshit (Score:1)
Re:PR bullshit (Score:2)
I think you're a troll. You created this account just to reply to me? How strange. (And journal about some other slow as hell video site it appears.) And, yes, I did check out the site. The site itself doesn't negate the fact that the writeup is still bullshit.
No Substance (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No Substance (Score:3, Informative)
Which I find sort of funny.
Re:No Substance (Score:1)
Re:No Substance (Score:1)
Different from YouTube? (Score:5, Insightful)
Meh, more sanitized 'professional' content, none of the free, cool stuff. No linux support. Lame.
Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:1)
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? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:2)
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:1)
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:2, Insightful)
I have an On Demand cable channel from gotuit for the NFL. Its pretty neat, it lets you play all the clips tagged with a players name, or all touchdown clips, or all fumble clips, ect...
There are a couple other gotuit channels but I haven't tried them out.
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, the word "gotuit" is from the Czech for "more meaningless content"...
Re:Gotuit? Go-tuit? Got-u-it? (Score:1, Redundant)
Why Gotuit is different (Score:1, Redundant)
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.
Re:Why Gotuit is different (Score:2, Insightful)
is this like the newspapers claiming that their content is "professional", and so you shouldn't read those dumb blogs?
Or does it mean that it's just commercials?
unclear on this whole tagging thing (Score:3, Insightful)
is that the point, or is tagging for something else?
Re:unclear on this whole tagging thing (Score:4, Funny)
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
Yay.. no WMV? (Score:1, Interesting)
Google Video? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Google Video? (Score:1)
Re:Google Video? (Score:2)
Which we Linux users are used to seeing. Now we get to see this:
Even though we have Flash installed, albeit not the latest version.
Re:Google Video? (Score:2)
I don't know for absolute sure, but I have used wget to get the video files, and file tells me it is an AVI, so I think that your parent poster is right. I rename them to .avi, and have no trouble playing them on my windows box.
I dunno how different an FLV is from an AVI, given how FLV is related to the priprietary evil stinking pile of dookie called "Flash." (See, I put "Flash," in quotes just
Impossible (Score:2, Insightful)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Impossible (Score:2)
Naturally, that feature requires you to have a TV tuner card. Their app tunes you in to your local CBS affiliate. No buffering!
Oh, did we forget to mention the ads in your face? (Score:2)
Re:Define Instantaneous (Score:2)
Not for me (Score:1)
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..
No buffering? (Score:2)
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: (Score:1)
BIG SITE WIPEOUTS (Score:2)
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 (Score:1)
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.
Re:Nothing to see: possible JavaScript issue? (Score:2)
Then I got stupid music videos and marketroid yammering, and I was sorry that I'd wasted my thirty seconds.
Re:Nothing to see (Score:1)
Instaload (Score:2)
Full speed back to the past professor! (Score:1)
another gratuitious use of "content" (Score:1)
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 ent
What's in a name? (Score:2)
GoToIt, or Go2It would have been smoother, dontcha think?
Benefit to "professionally produced content"? (Score:2)
Not a portal...Not broadband... (Score:1)
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? (Score:1)