More Evidence that Internet Video is a Viable Marketing Channel
Internet video continues to make its way from the computer to the TV and will soon become more prevalent in Charlottesville. This evolution is truly only beginning …
Seattle-based GridNetworks’ proposal to consumers: Watch Internet videos easily on your television. To Internet content providers? Get your shows into consumers’ living rooms.
GridNetworks’ new offering, GridCast TV, allows Internet surfers to click a “Watch on TV” button adjacent to an online video and then instantly see it on their TVs.
A few caveats: For now, only a few online video sites (like Revision3 and havocTV) work with GridCast TV. And you need to have a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 hooked up to your television for it to work (and a broadband connection, too).
By the way, Comcast, Panorama Capital and Cisco invested about $9.5 million in the company last year.
