As I struggled with the Sky Player in Wales last weekend I – possibly like many other people – wondered if it was me. It was my connection, my computer. After all, when TV fails it usually fails at our end – the dish was blown over, the arial can’t get a signal, the TV isn’t tuned..

Murdoch’s Failure To Launch

Tomorrow is B-Day for the Internet TV industry.

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B-Day

Just how mainstream online video has become is well covered in this NY Times article. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, what price a video ?

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Show Me The Video

The design of internet TV sites infuriates me. They're largely designed by Apple hugging, iPhone totting twentysomethings in designer glasses and baggy trousers according to their world view.

The iPlayer is passable, but takes all of its cues from the web, not TV. ITV.com and the Sky Player (or the Sky Dontplayer, as I call it) are staggeringly bad.

I've blogged before on the reasons for this – webbie people work to webbie models, where clicks are valuable and complicated layouts are all the rage in the bars of Hoxton and the lower East Side.

Joost set the stage with a compelling interface that has been lost in a flurry of Flash and Silverlight overkill

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Apples & Pears

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