YouTube Live, Live Right Now
Hope all the AGP crew is doing well. The weather is crap here in Northern New South Wales with very strong and cold westerly winds beating down on us. Great day for chilling out inside and watching telly or a movie or what about YouTube Live?
YouTube did not advertise the event but YouTube is running a live event right now. I just caught the Myth Busters, very cool. Jamie got shot with their paintball cannon that mimics the rendering of graphics on computers.
I was not sure how the whole YouTube event would come off, I have not seen much but I am surprised, pleasantly. I actually thought that the event would get bombarded and it would be near impossible to see it. To that end it was quick to connect and get the stream going and they are offering 3 quality settings! Then we are talking about Google if any could provide the bandwidth required they could. Plus they have thrown in 3 camera angles to choose from. Try that on mainstream TV.
Quality? Great! Totally watchable in low quality and a pleasure at high quality with zero jitter and smooth TV quality viewing. Having said that, it will depend on your connection. I am on an 8MB line.
While I am not sure that the content is everyone’s cup of tea the whole thing is pretty cool. The event has featured artists and popular personalities with a heavy leaning on music. There is also a few awards and such highlighting key YouTube personalities. I appreciate that this is going to be a big draw card as far as the demographic but personally I would have liked to see more of a balance. It is pretty much a big show, for entertainment’s sake, which is not bad either.
In addition I can not help but thing this is Internet media shouting out loud and clear that we can do it just like CNN, Fox and all the rest and our audience is massive and our reach is longer. All very, very true. I wonder just how much main stream coverage this event will get. To that end there are over 14,199,650 for the channel, not sure if this includes the live hits for the current event.
I love the concept and I sincerely hope that the spin off and the momentum is maintained. I also hope that we see more of this and mainstream media gets a big kick up the arse.
Is this the start of the revolution?
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When the Live Earth happened, the whole thing was online on the web, from every part of the globe where it was on. I wish they did stuff like this more and more..
I actually tuned into YouTube Live last night near the beginning and watched about a half hour of it. I’m not sure if I was just in a grumpy mood or not, but the YouTube stars are not actors. You could easily tell that they were speaking off of a script and none of it was funny. I think the stars of YouTube are great as individuals but they all sucked when put together at a YouTube show.
The longer I watched YouTube Live, the more I felt my intelligence slipping away.
That being said, the video quality was excellent and I appreciated the multiple camera angles. I did get to see the YouTube Live page freeze up on me in FireFox which ended up in a crashed browser but at that point, I was pretty happy that my browser crashed.
Yeah, some of the people were very average. Still, it’s a step in the right direction. Imagine seeing some live artists playing on something like this..