TV Perso – your very own TV channel (France)
Yesterday Freebox, the sister company to Free – a rapidly growing broadband ISP operator in France – launched an IPTV User Generated Content service. With TV Perso Free subscribers equipped with a Freebox HD are the ‘first people in the world’ to be able to create their own television channel that can be viewed directly on a television.
Free was the first operator to provide broadband television services, broadband telephone services, and triple play services to the French market. Continuing with their trend of innovation, Free is now offering subscribers the opportunity to become producers, presenting their own channel and sharing their content either via playback or live!
From the English press release:
“Users can broadcast video on TV Perso simply by plugging compatible equipment directly into the video input on their Freebox HD. You can easily share your family, local, community, cultural, sporting or educational events with your friends and family, to a community of users (sports club, local, cultural or educational association etc.) or with all eligible Free subscribers with any kind of Freebox. TV Perso is available at no extra charge as part of the Freebox package” (EUR 29.99 per month).
To upload content onto the network, the camera or camecorder is simply plugged into the back of the Freebox via an S-Video connection.
Some Freebox technical details:
The Freebox HD is the first set-top box in Europe to take advantage of Sigma’s industry leading SMP8635 media processor. For receiving IPTV video services, the HD Freebox contains an SD and HD decoder — a DTT tuner which can be used to access the 18 DTT channels, SCART, S-Video and composite S-video connectors, an HDMI connector to connect an HD-Ready television, an S/P-DIF and digital audio output to connect a hi-fi, and three antennas for wireless connection to the ADSL box.
The company uses open source Linux software to write its own programs for Internet TV and was one of the first companies in the world to offer Internet TV in December 2003.
via – mediastech
June 29th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Great article !
I just tested the service and it seems to live up to its expectations. What’s impressive is the quality of the video, since they have an MPEG encoder in the Freebox, and all subscribers eligible to this service have a pretty fast connection. Its nothing like what you see on sites like ustream.tv or even Youtube
Just a detail : Freebox is the name of Free’s set-top-box, its not the company’s name.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Thanks mediastech,
et merci pour des mise au point
July 11th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
we have reviewed your product and its a very innovative thing which will catch up fast with the proliferation of video content search engines like youtube.com
more review can be found at http://www.vmarketics.com/IPTV-broadband-television-services.html
July 25th, 2007 at 3:09 am
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