Live Internet Television

This is not a post to criticize the NCAA or CBS. We at ivi applaud their attempt to televise every NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament game on the Web.

There is an overwhelming demand for such a service and the NCAA and CBS are right to respond to the public’s interest. The problem is that their technology is failing them.

Flash-based players can only accommodate so much user traffic before there is service degradation. Audio-sync problems, picture-freeze, and continuous buffering are the common symptoms suffered by the online viewer.

The good news is that help is on the way.  ivi TV was specifically designed to provide a consistent, enjoyable Internet television experience.

After all, March Madness should be about the games, not about content delivery.

Infighting among strange bedfellows says a lot about future plans: Co-incident with CBS relaunching C|Net-acquired TV.com into a potential rival of Hulu, Hulu pulled its content from the site.

Hulu, backed by NBC and News Corporation, competes with CBS in the traditional television markets.  Hulu’s quick-fire removal of their content from TV.com shows that they are planning on fighting it out online as well.

Hulu and TV.com are tight-lipped about the contracted rights, but it appears that TV.com was caught slightly unaware with “video unavailable” riddling their site on all content provided by Hulu.

ivi’s mantra: Internet television must and will improve!