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Full list of video services on the Internet

All video sites on the Internet can be divided into two types: video hosting platforms (well-known YouTube ); video portals with TV channels (ChannelChooser). Sometimes there are hybrids, such as Yahoo Video. The full list contains descriptions of all major video sites on the Internet.

Yahoo Video is a hybrid service that combines the properties of a video hosting platform and a video portal. To improve the quality of the video, Yahoo is trying to create its own content in partnership with Current TV .

Google Video service is more focused on video hosting. It supports a very modest functionality, including a breakdown by thematic categories and the possibility of buying protected material. There are no channel subscriptions.

Current TV combines user-generated content (about a third) and professional video. And they, and others have the quality of an order of magnitude higher than typical videos from YouTube . The best commercials according to the results of the popular vote fall on the “television” live broadcast, and the authors of these videos receive an award of $ 100. Quality content Current TV licensed broadcast services Yahoo Video and Google Video.
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The so-called “video search engine” Blinkx is actually looking for content by keywords or sound if it can be recognized. On their website you can open your own “TV channel” and upload your own videos.

The most comprehensive directory with links to all the Internet TV stations in the world is compiled on the website wwiTV .

Streamick.com - a portal with channels for television reminds Yahoo at the dawn of the formation of the web. The same thematic catalog with the categories "News", "Music", "Business", etc.

The original video service of Democracy.com works through a special open source program. After its installation, the user gets access to a huge number of TV channels. Anyone can also open their own channel.

The Grouper service, recently sold to Sony for $ 65 million, is most similar to YouTube. At least, it also involves building a community of users and provides for the functionality of social networks.

One of the first sites created for the exchange of amateur videos iFilm very quickly went into the shadows after the appearance of YouTube. The reason is a large number of bugs, very slow server work and a huge amount of advertising.

Veoh (beta) differs from YouTube in the best quality of videos and the ability to safely save files to disk, while on YouTube for this you have to resort to the help of third-party services .

Advertising system Revver gives the opportunity to earn the authors of videos. She places commercials inside the videos and shares the profit with the authors. Patented software is able to count the number of ad impressions, even if the video file is distributed throughout the Internet.

On teleportal ChannelChooser collected a lot of American TV channels that can be viewed via the Internet. Other similar services are Choose & Watch , Live TV Online and European ChannelKing .

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4609/


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