Thursday, August 17, 2006

Youtube- here to stay?

Youtube has enough popularity now to skyrocket it up the ladder seems to be a big phenomena now, but will it be able to sustain itself? They spend over a reported million dollars a month in bandwidth fees, yet have no established money making scheme (yet). I know they have a lot of copyrighted videos on there and that is one thing that would make it hard for someone to want to buy it. Until they get a good ad supported, money making business, that is when they can sell. There are many copycats/competitors out there, but i think youtube is popular enough to beat out even ones with more features. (ex. myspace and its competitors). Flash videos are extremely popular because you can play them on any machine, and its very efficient. I'd like to have a bigger video player, because watching small flash videos of funny clips isn't as good on a big screen.

Google Video offers a bigger space to view it, but half the time it can't load the full video. I like to use their video player, which i downloaded, and watch the videos that way. That enables you to go full screen and not even worry about buffering, since it downloads the video to your hard drive.
What are your thoughts?

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