Having been on about this for quite a while now, it is about time YouTube finally got itself in-gear and actually made some proper steps towards unleashing their live video streaming on the populace. That time it seems is about now as the initial tests of their live streaming platform service will be tested from some time on Monday morning (13th Sep) until Tuesday night (14th Sep). If the live streaming isn’t on yet or you have missed it, see videos at the bottom of this post for some show trailers…
The test however, will involve 4 of YouTube’s partners and not ordinary users. ‘That’s not very ‘YOUtube’ now is it’ – you might think, but when you consider the technical and infrastructure requirements of streaming potentially millions of people at once and the possibility of people streaming something horrendous online then this is probably the sensible option.
There is no doubt that YouTube have the skills to pull this off, now with Google powering their engines and having already streamed various live events such as Barak Obama speeches and India’s Cricket League.
So is this all a big swell towards Google TV or will YouTube remain a separate online only medium? It’s not like live streaming online TV channels are anything new? Plus there are many places to watch on-demand content for free anyway so why would you sit through a bunch of shows like Rocketboom or Howcast when you can just go directly to what you want to watch instead? Isn’t this just a bit of catch up from YouTube? I hope they have something more interesting planned for this…
Here is what you have to look forward to on You Tube Live for now:
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