There’s a lot of video on the web – from streaming movie rentals a la Netflix and Blockbuster to user-generated material on YouTube to broadcast TV shows at Hulu – but accessing them in a single interface and spreading them across your playback devices can be a challenge.
New versions of two tools seek to change that.
Vuze has a new media player application that integrates online video with playback across a range of devices including the iPhone, iPod, Xbox 360, and PS3.
ZeeVee, on the other hand, has unveiled a new version of its Zinc tool that makes watching TV shows hosted at various sites, as well as Netflix Watch Instantly movies, easier and more intuitive.
Both applications are free and compete with other, similar tools like boxee.
This space is getting dense with competitors. It will be curious to see who wins out and why. Will the decisive factors be usability, content diversity, deep pockets, features, or something we haven’t even thought of yet.
What do you think?
On InformationAppliance: Web Video Tools Offer Deeper Integration | Digital Picture Frames wrote at April 16th, 2009 at 2:38 am
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