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Online video continues to enjoy enormous success and is increasingly becoming a standard feature of websites and blogs. As we move towards the era of Internet TV, it gets easier and easier for everyday people to broadcast their own video shows to the world.
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A new batch of tools is evolving to satisfy this need, allowing you to create your own custom TV channels, broadcast your own live video feed or even operate a mini-recording-studio right out of your web browser.
In this guide I survey the rapidly evolving landscape of tools aimed at extending the promise of the first generation of online video-sharing sites. For while YouTube made it easier to upload and share your videos, the new breed of video services make it easy for you to record, broadcast and arrange whole channels of homegrown video content.
Whether you want to broadcast yourself live,
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Who needs a studio when you can create your own media-rich Internet TV channel right from your web browser?
In this guide I have compared the currently available tools and services according to whether they incorporate the following features:
Live broadcasting - the ability to stream live video directly from the user's computer and / or webcam
Scheduled broadcasting - a feature that allows you to set a date and time for the first transmission of your video, after which users will be able to access it in archived form
On-demand broadcasting - the more familiar YouTube-style broadcasting, whereby viewers can choose when to watch the show
Embed live video - the ability to embed a video player of your live broadcast into your viewers websites and blogs, so that they can watch live streaming from a website other than that of the broadcasting service you are using
Embed recorded video - the ability to embed pre-recorded video, or archived live video footage into a website or blog
Integrated text chat - the opportunity for viewers and / or broadcasters to interact with text chat from within the video player interface during a broadcast
Integrated video chat - the chance for viewers to interact in realtime via their own web-cams during a broadcast
Webcam capture - the ability to capture video footage directly from the user's web-cam, either to stream live or record for later broadcasting
Mobile phone capture - the ability to capture either stills or video from a camera-equipped mobile phone,
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Import online video - the option of bringing in video files from other video-sharing websites for use in your broadcasts
Pre-recorded video - the ability to broadcast pre-recorded video as uploaded to the service being used
Still images - the inclusion of photographs and other still images in the broadcasting options
Music - the ability to broadcast music files, either separately or mixed in with a video track
Multiple participants - the chance for more than one broadcaster to take part in a video,
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Add titles - the ability to create text-based titles or captions over or in addition to your video footage
To find out which features are included in the services reviewed and the strengths and weaknesses of the currently available web broadcasting tools, read on.