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Camera Flipping at Justin.TV

6 points by transburgh 19y ago

greendestiny 19y ago
Absolutely nothing interesting about webcams I agree. I want to see justin.tv turn into youtube live. The greatest thing they've developed is a live portable broadcasting for the masses. Actually they should probably keep justin.tv and just startup a live event broadcasting site because the focus wouldnt be around single 24/7 channels but lots of different intermittent broadcasts. I think the difference between live and prerecorded seems small but is really important. I guess if they did make the switch to broadcast style they'd have make some hardware changes to the sorts of cameras used because it'd mostly need to be tripod stabilized zoom lens stuff.
- emmett 19y ago
  We don't supply the hardware; we don't run any very many of the streams on our site at all. So really, if people want to use our site for doing things with tripods and zoom lenses, that's up to them, not us.
  - greendestiny 19y ago
    Oh ok, my bad, that was just the impression I got when you guys first launched. While webcams are pretty standard these days I'm not sure many people are familiar with EVDO. Also I don't think the site is really set up for pre-scheduled events which was really my point. Of course thats not a problem if you have no intention of doing a live event site.
    - emmett 19y ago
      You're right we don't have a central place to view upcoming events yet. That will be changing...
cellis 19y ago
hmm...you guys are probably more ethical than I am...but why not license this to the pr0n industry? Then, it wouldn't be boring at all... I can just see the spam: now live porn, on demand, 200+ amatuer channels! Free preview(9.95/mo subscription)!
- corentin 19y ago
  It already exists (probably since webcams appeared).
  - emmett 19y ago
    You're right about that - and we have no desire to enter the porn industry in any case.
Tichy 19y ago
What about equipping stars with the camera? Can you just go today and rent a justin cam for a day easily? There should be enough events in the world to find something interesting to broadcast all the time.
axod 19y ago
I'd like some automated rating of video feeds. Write some software to rate how 'interesting' a feed is currently. Start with the easy - is much changing? is there any audio? Then move onto harder things - how many people are viewable in the video. Then maybe you could display the feeds in order of current 'interestingness'. Otherwise trawling through them gets a bit tedious.
- emmett 19y ago
  Simple video activity isn't enough to establish interestingness in our experience. We'd like to screen "dead" live streams out of lists, but I think there's an easier, social, solution to that problem.
mynameishere 19y ago
Shouldn't have named the service after one of the founders. The company? Sure, call it "Justin Enterprises". Works as well as "Ford Motor". But it doesn't work when you name a product after a person. Ask Edsel.

6 points by transburgh 19y ago

Absolutely nothing interesting about webcams I agree. I want to see justin.tv turn into youtube live. The greatest thing they've developed is a live portable broadcasting for the masses. Actually they should probably keep justin.tv and just startup a live event broadcasting site because the focus wouldnt be around single 24/7 channels but lots of different intermittent broadcasts. I think the difference between live and prerecorded seems small but is really important. I guess if they did make the switch to broadcast style they'd have make some hardware changes to the sorts of cameras used because it'd mostly need to be tripod stabilized zoom lens stuff.

emmett 19y ago
We don't supply the hardware; we don't run any very many of the streams on our site at all. So really, if people want to use our site for doing things with tripods and zoom lenses, that's up to them, not us.
- greendestiny 19y ago
  Oh ok, my bad, that was just the impression I got when you guys first launched. While webcams are pretty standard these days I'm not sure many people are familiar with EVDO. Also I don't think the site is really set up for pre-scheduled events which was really my point. Of course thats not a problem if you have no intention of doing a live event site.
  - emmett 19y ago
    You're right we don't have a central place to view upcoming events yet. That will be changing...

cellis 19y ago

hmm...you guys are probably more ethical than I am...but why not license this to the pr0n industry? Then, it wouldn't be boring at all... I can just see the spam: now live porn, on demand, 200+ amatuer channels! Free preview(9.95/mo subscription)!

corentin 19y ago
It already exists (probably since webcams appeared).
- emmett 19y ago
  You're right about that - and we have no desire to enter the porn industry in any case.

Tichy 19y ago

What about equipping stars with the camera? Can you just go today and rent a justin cam for a day easily? There should be enough events in the world to find something interesting to broadcast all the time.

axod 19y ago

I'd like some automated rating of video feeds. Write some software to rate how 'interesting' a feed is currently. Start with the easy - is much changing? is there any audio? Then move onto harder things - how many people are viewable in the video. Then maybe you could display the feeds in order of current 'interestingness'. Otherwise trawling through them gets a bit tedious.

emmett 19y ago
Simple video activity isn't enough to establish interestingness in our experience. We'd like to screen "dead" live streams out of lists, but I think there's an easier, social, solution to that problem.

mynameishere 19y ago

Shouldn't have named the service after one of the founders. The company? Sure, call it "Justin Enterprises". Works as well as "Ford Motor". But it doesn't work when you name a product after a person. Ask Edsel.