Pick Up a Wii and Drop Cable TV?

Launched around two months ago, Moowee aggregates content from sites like YouTube, Google Video and dailymotion and makes it television friendly.

Moowee manages to integrate and exploit the social networking aspects of the UCG sites to create custom and shared channels. They have created a relatively simple guide that is more television-like, than computer-like; clips streams in a continuous fashion allowing users to lean back and be spoon-fed their UCG. It has separate windows for the content and the various meta-data. For instance, this description will appear in a banner below its associated video.

The quality of the videos was better than expected, even when in full-screen mode. The quality of the video is only as good as the source encoding, however, and the quality difference was noticeable from program to program. The quality definitely appeared better on the Wii, as compared to my laptop.




Channel selection is amazingly fast and they have different categories including channels created by Moowee (e.g. Anime, Arts, etc.), selected by Moowee (Moopix), voyeuristic viewing (watching what other people are watching) and custom channels selected either by the viewer or by other viewers. It is also possible to search using the Wii's on-screen keyboard and find videos associated with a given search term. It is also possible to create a channel from that search term; check out the Viodi channel that briefly appears at the end of the video that follows this article.

The best part of the service is that it is no cost to the Wii-owning consumer. At this point, they are in the subscriber-building phase. They anticipate monetizing the service with advertising and sponsorship, as well as premium content subscriptions. Check out this brief video interview with Kris Harikrishnan, the President of Moowee, to see why I think this service might cause some people to pick up a Wii and drop Cable TV.

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[dangputerz]

This is not in any way shape or form a real product. They are fishing for investors to build this product. They do not have anything out there working now.

[Viodi]

@dangputerz

This is a rather old video at this point. . No, they weren't fishing for money. They were trying to get exposure and I thought it was pretty cool concept especially at the time. It did prompt me to get a Wii for my family and, unfortunately, I never dropped cable TV. As for Moowee, they were recently purchased by another company and went in a different direction.

[PUTSAS]

hey when will this be out?

how do i get it?

[Viodi]

It is available today!

[Joexphan]

dude just go to the Internet channel. thats it

[cheezeheads]

@amcabbott but most people are paying for both

[amcabbott]

you have to have a hi speed internet connection to do this. soooo you are paying for this anyway. you only get basic tv with this. most cable packages include basic tv with there internet.

[0603001532lilpimp]

How Do I Get On It

[mwfan2002]

OMG

[malus97]

when is it out in sweden?

[Atstyle]

nah that won't work, cuz in japan they already have something better which really replace the tv cable, its a tv channel where u can see ur programmation etc. put reminder for a certain show.

[WAATANG]

lol try and work out how many time the guy ways we and how many times he says wii. put a reply

[baconguy123]

and then what(p.s. in the u.s.)