Unlike Joost or Babelgum, Vakaka X-TV plans to provide BOTH Video-on-Demand (VOD) and live streaming at the same time. That means you'll be able to view a VOD film and a real-time concert at the same time. Why you'd want to do that is beyond me, especially if both of them are in Chinese,
The site will sport a Joost-like interface, including channel zone, widget zone, playing control zone, and setting zone. We'll see. I just need an interpreter, although Google Translation (beta, of course) does a pretty credible job. (See below.)
They claim to have 3,000 hours of video programs online already, including the latest films and the hottest soap dramas in China, with many under 500 kbps, to accomodate lower bandwidth users.
Like Joost, they are not alone. Other Chinese competitors include PPlive, PPstream, UUsee, and QQlive, though they are focused on streaming rather than VOD. Is this good? Bad? Indifferent? I guess for most of us, it's the third....
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