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Tivo announced yesterday that it was offering a new service that allows users to share pictures and home videos with Tivo customers.
This is a great way of sharing video or creating your own TV show, in effect. Tivo said that users can set up their own channel on TV and allow people to subscribe to their Season Pass to catch all media that is being shared. Essentially, this is like a personal YouTube (allowing you to host and share media) that you watch on your TV.
Tivo says this eliminates the need for digital frames, which allow people to send digital pictures to frames, like say at your parent’s house. So rather than mailing pictures or home movies via DVD, via snail mail, you can send it via Tivo. It also eliminates the need to use YouTube, or other hosting sites since now videos can be sent directly to TV screens rather than computer screens.
Customers must go to One True Media to create and edit the video or picture album, create a personal Tivo channel then invite Tivo subscribers to watch their media. Media appear as just another channel, just like shows recorded on TV.
“One True Media has given people an exciting and fun way to make mpressive video montages; now we’re offering an ultra simple way for their friends and family to watch them on a big screen — just like they would watch ’24′ or ‘American Idol,’” said Mark Moore, CEO, One True Media. “We’re thrilled that this relationship allows our users to benefit even more from this compelling new way to share life’s greatest moments.”
One True Media is providing a free trial allowing users to send up to five creations at no cost through April 30, 2007. Otherwise, a subscription to One True Media runs from $3.99/month to $39.99/year.
Overall, I think this is a great service. I wish the photo sharing aspect was more like Flickr or other online photo sites, since Flickr is the coolest one around. I’d hate to start using another service, like One True Media for hosting my pics, when I already use others.
What’s interesting is that the press release calls the videos home movies. But what’s to stop people from uploading recorded TV shows instead and send them to friends that may have missed the latest American Idol show, for example? Or movies that you download through BitTorrent. Of course people can also use it to send private adult movies also, which they’d rather not post on YouTube privately. The unintended uses of this service is when it really gets interesting.
I like the pricing, in that you don’t pay per media clip but rather as a subscription. I haven’t seen it in action yet, but I plan to start using this immediately. Anyone want to start sharing video with me, just contact me at jose@alvear.com.
[tags] One True Media, Tivo, DVR, YouTube, digital video recorder, photo sharing [/tags]
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