What The Venice Project is attempting means that it would be comparing a Junior High School production of Hamlet put online by an A.D.D afflicted member of the A.V. club versus A Royal Shakespeare Company production put online by a recent London Film School graduate.

Then again, 1,000 junior high school students will watch the first video for every 1 that watches the second so YouTube won’t be going anywhere soon.

A short Australian Rules YouTube video here>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDjJ_RQEsI8

Of particular note are the segments from the 2 minute to 3 minute mark. Yes, those amazing climbs to catch the ball are called ‘marks’.

Hmm, will the Venice Project provide us with better quality Australian Football videos!!

http://en.sababadc.com/theveniceproject.html

Screenshots that have been cleared by the copyright owners .

http://www.theveniceproject.com/screenshots/

But more importantly I agree with you entirely, they strategies and goals are just too different to compare, bad move on the Gizmodians and over hyped bloggers who wants a impressive story headline.

CyKiller

There are a lot of P2P video streaming software companies out there but where are the strategic business plans that needs to scale at a higher level for this new generation of television? With the background and funding behind TVP they are guaranteed to make some noise in the video market overall not just P2P streaming. So the companies that should be watching out are those cable companies who really just don’t get it about what people want from TV sets and when. Those pesky proprietary download database of TV shows and movies ala iTunes, Xbox live marketplace and many more. P2P is a way to save money on bandwidth for the company who already has a lot of internal backing, but more importantly down the road we “could” see a lot of these same web services being replicated through one online platform. Time can only tell but with the reputation of Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom and disruption of markets they have done damage to in the past (which is great for them) just makes me more of a believer these days.

CyKiller

But with money and fame, TVP might be powerful in the later months. I am especting Venice Project with the better streaming technology as TVkoo did in China.

Eyeballs * Time Consuming Content * Advertising = Winning

The internet levels the playing field, right? Well, at least it makes it the same playing field.

Web as a platform means that different sports play the same game.

They are both competing for roughly the same attention space, so there is a clash. Whether its for the same audience I don’t know

Questions I have about TVP are:

(i) how will it really differ from standard IPTV fare…its all the same material if its from the same old distributors (which I assume it is so far)

(ii) How does its advertising model work out re targeting – I think this will be critical.

So one’s loss is surely going to be others gain.

But the pot is looking quite full right now so hopefully they can all share and still be happy campers.