Comments on: CBS Does About Face on HD

By: sam beal

sam beal — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:23:19 +0000

will it bring “H” (in Miami) back from the dead?

By: Eric Elia

Eric Elia — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:32:42 +0000

The Showtime side of CBS has been pretty aggressive with HD on the Web. Their full-screen sampler (http://www.sho.com/site/order/preview.do) looks fantastic, as does their Emmys screening room – which is available for Emmys voters.

Disclaimer – The Showtime experience was developed in partnership with my company, Brightcove.

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:10:48 +0000

HULU looks like every other Flash Flex Video site out there .
Thats the problem here no innovative video sites are being made and they are still focused on navigation via the PC and not migrating to the TV .

By: Billy H.

Billy H. — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:16:09 +0000

Hi Hiro– check out http://www.hulu.com. It is open to the public now.

By: Hiro

Hiro — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:02:37 +0000

What’s Hulu? Never heard of it.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:22 +0000

I think this is proving that Hulu is not the only game in town. Other media companies should follow CBS lead here and do this themselves rather than outsource to Hulu.

By: Billy H.

Billy H. — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:37:06 +0000

Interesting how the CBS HD site looks like a complete copy of Hulu. I actually thought it was Hulu for a second.

By: PG

PG — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:09:36 +0000

I would say it’s true that quality will define the pros from the amateurs, but it’d be a mistake to sleep on Youtube, or assume they don’t care about something – they’ll offer, and find a way to offer, whatever will yield the most eyeballs. if people are moving away from Youtube because they want to see HD, Youtube will offer HD, and if they have to offer professionally produced video in order to get people to come to the site, Youtube will license professionally produced video. Google didn’t spend a couple of billion dollars on Youtube to let it lag and become second best.

By: Tim Street

Tim Street — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:43:41 +0000

I’m wondering when we will see a shift in video advertising to HD. Right now lots of folks are building ads for 4:3. At some point they will have to go 16:9 but ads don’t last forever so it may not be a big re-do for advertisers – just for the technology guys delivering the ads.