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From the oh dear Lord, it's about time department: YouTube, over the next two days, is conducting a trial of its new live streaming platform.This first test will see live content streamed by four of its partners: Howcast, Next New Networks (Barely Political), Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. Admittedly I haven't heard of any of them -- and I'm more interested in watching the season finale of True Blood -- but looking at their channel pages, they all seem to be popular.
The test will run for two days, after which live streaming will presumably be rolled out to the unwashed masses. While I'm sure there'll be tons of user-generated content, I'm more interested in whether YouTube can strike up broadcast deals with real broadcasters. TV shows, live music, news... this could be massive.
The live broadcast schedule for today is below -- see if anything catches your eye!
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Subscribe to comments3tearSep 13th 2010 5:09AM
I thought they had been streaming cricket matches for a while already?
http://www.youtube.com/ipl
Or is that summin different?
Sebastian AnthonySep 13th 2010 5:19AM
Yeah, as they say, they've done some streaming before -- but this looks like it's the beginning of user-centric broadcasting.
I would guess, until now, broadcasting required some assistance from YouTube to set things up.
sRcSep 13th 2010 10:36AM
yah they've done a few streaming things before, I caught a stream of a live for charity Paul McCartney concert, that was pretty awesome.
but yah this looks like its user broadcasting like Seb said.. and totally awesome!
RondaHulstine992332Sep 13th 2010 5:55AM
And so it begins. Google TV (the platform, not just the box) will lead to the death of broadcast television by IPTV. Companies like Cisco, NetGear and others need to step up their game and prepare the infrastructure for the upcoming demand on teh intertubes.
Who needs 500 channels, when you can have 5billion?
F-ZeroSep 13th 2010 11:01AM
It's a good thing you haven't heard of Howcast - totally useless stuff.
Rocketboom on the other hand features a host who's sole purpose is to capture upvotes and comments on the subjects of boobs.