CNET has launched a new site dedicated to video clips for everything from news to reviews. Anyone familiar with CNET knows that they are no stranger to video. Nearly every product review is accompanied with a short video review. CNET decided to take this familiarity with video and sprout an entirely new site.
As with all CNET ventures, CNET TV is new user friendly. Videos have RSS feeds and users have the ability to download videos to their iPod. Currently the site is divided up into several channels: News on CNET, Gadgets & Gear, Tips & Tricks, Gaming, Car Tech, Shows, Movies & Music and Tech News. Each channel has a playlist of many clips, each averaging a couple of minutes in length.
I commend CNET for taking the initiative to create a site like this. Bringing video and TV to the web is inevitable and large media corporations are embracing is, such as CNN with their Pipeline. However, in some aspects CNET TV is just a glorified video podcast site and does not fully immerse the user as watching a TV does. Maybe they should have just named it CNET Vidcasts?
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You mean CNET “Netcast”….
Oh crap.. I thought I read CNET Podcasts. My Bad..
You were right about the podcasts thing. I changed it to vidcasts right after I published it as I thought it was more fitting.
The whole netcast thing has got to stop.
Agreed. Podcast has been around too long and undergone too much publicity to change it.
Hey Paul did you see the CNET redesign? As much as I love CNET TV, I like the site design, as a whole, a lot more than the video aspect of the upgrade.
Of course, I’ve always liked news.com so perhaps I’m biased. Man I hate using that word, biased.
Yeah the new site design is a lot easier on the eyes.
Hm, this is great to see, but I hope this space doesn’t become too crowded in terms of people wanting to create the same tech content. Doesn’t Yahoo! have something remotely similar? I think people such as revision3.com and TWIT will be good still though, don’t you?