Apple TV!?????

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翻译：今天早些时候得到消息，Apple新型的在线家庭有力的竞争者：Apple TV 目前已经开始小量发货。一个用户在一个月的痛苦的预定等待后，收到了详细的出货和细节的邮件。

PS: 目前在Apple网站上已经提示订单运输需要3~5个工作日，而目前价格为299美元！！。呵呵，不知道中国的用户接上这个电视盒子能够看到什么~~~~~口水呀........

Joost, Babelgum, Zattoo's contrast and analyse

Joost:

Joost is beta test phase now, The original name is "Venice Project", he compatible almost all of the stream's major types. He is P2P tech too, can delivery the encrypted data stream; can adjust the bitrate to match your bandwidth. Joost's another point is allow you upload/download your content by yourself.
Presently，Joost is not very big/public, but the content is very good feeling in some portion. And his funder(Friis and Zennstrom) also positive contact with major media company.
Joost's content is very vivid, but also pool. He public 23 channels, include some business channel, but one of them can be view finity. He have some music channel and plan to add Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Diddy Channel, Atlantic Street and so on. Joost's user interface is different with common. It default by the maximum size on your desktop when you run it, and the button is showed when mouse move to anywhere on your screen. His control is very easily：play, pause, fast on and volumn control. you also can easy to change your current channel or switch to another program. Joost also provide the search box, allow users to search the specified program to watchl.
Joost's channel browse is very easily, can be pulled or extended. Users can browse the specified program content and select which want to download. The most different of Joost is gadget, It's also distinguish things into others. The gadgets provide more and more feature and idea on the Joost, include instant information, real time broadcast, billbroad, chat, feedback, clock and so on.

Babel Gum

It is another powerful iptv programming. The funder is Silvio Scaglia(He is very famous in italy) Of course, He is not popular as Joost. He has office in 4 country.
Now, Babel Gum's content is some pool, only have 9 channels and the most of them is avocation or free. Babel Gum has a news channel, mainly to provide U.N.S. Other way, it has comic channel and blog channel(? video blog?). Babel Gum try to attract CP(content provider) to join in, hold out "Babel Gum is satisfactional platform of CP's", and It's also avocation content's. But it can't attract the major media company.

ZATTOO

Be compared with above two, ZATTOO is defferent on developing the iptv's scope. It's only public in Switzerland. It's seemed more like a real broadcasting service.
Zattoo have very vivid contents about 40 channels. Zattoo plan to subscribe the protocol with the CP and extand the business to more country. Zattoo's content is the most provided by BBC, CNN, Canale 5, Viva and Italia 1.
Zattoo's ui is very simple, common and more look like as Windows/Mac's software. Because Zattoo is provide the TV Program actually, so not to provide the video controller. channel bwroser is at the side of the program, easy like others and control with facility.
At present, It hard to decide who is winner. Joost has the best tech, but Babelgum's service is well so. Zattoo has the best of contents. IPTV's macket is more and more flourish, and the new company is pop also.
Let's keep looking...

Googe is going to develop TV set-top box operating systems and middleware solutions

See below>>
http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1091
Who can compete with google? And how about the Microsoft Xbox360's IPTV solution? I think 2007 is IPTV's dawn. Who is winner?

Another Online Streaming TV Website!

What's different? Let's to have a look.>>http://www.libertv.tv/

P2P/流媒体市场新规则引发洗牌效应

今天在20ju.com看到:广电总局重拳出击全面清理PPLive. pps. 类网络电视，看来随着网络运营商不断进行的固网升级，网络资费的下调，网络环境的进一步开放，2008年北京奥运会之前会全面迎来IPTV/流媒体的时代。当然，在进入时代之前必然是对行业内部的整风/肃清运动，谁能够坚持到最后？似乎IPTV的曙光应该已经到来~~~