TechCrunch is reporting on a service that might interest quite a few of you. Hey!Watch is a forthcoming service that gives users to intelligently convert media online.
While we’ve discussed online video converters in the past, this is the first one I’ve seen that is developing a business model out of the practice. The service allows users to upload video from their hard drives or directly from URL.
Also, true to 2.0 form, the service offers fluid RSS integration. Users can both upload via RSS and have have converted video output by RSS. It currently coverts to MPEG4 and DVD format.
In addition to its standard features. Hey!Watch is providing developers tools in hopes of expanding the service more quickly once it launches. It should be go within the next few weeks.
Hey!Watch Is A Seriously Cool Online Video Converter [TechCrunch]
I sure wouldn’t want to be paying their bandwidth bill every month… otherwise, neat service but if you don’t have high speed internet, useless – stick with software ;-)
Jon
It’s kind of hard to see this taking off with the current bandwidths provided today. In the time it takes to upload anything worth converting and then download it again, you could have converted it yourself 5 times.
I’m going to have to agree with Lydon on this one. Why pay for this service when you can download programs that do the conversion for you on your own computer? And given the fact that the potential demographic for this are the same people that most likely upgrade their computers every two years or so, then the CPU power shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
Unless they’ve got some kind of B2B angle where businesses can rent CPU cycles, then I don’t know how this one is going to survive.
But hey, smarter people than me have succeeded at stupider things than I can come up with.
Yep. Interesting concept, but I can’t imagine how this will EVERY succeed. It’ll sure put some serious cash in some bandwidth company’s pocket, though….