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\"xtv<\/a>Ok, that was horrible and I should be bludgeon with a heavy brass object, however, once I explain what xTV is, perhaps you will forgive me a little bit. “ok, fine then, what is xTV?”<\/p>\n

XTV is a internet video service for the enterprise.\u00a0(IPTV) But it\u2019s not useful to just enterprise users.\u00a0 Imagine you have a number of videos that you want to publish about\u00a0your small business or hobby.\u00a0 Where do you put them?\u00a0 Well YouTube or some other video cloud service typically.\u00a0 That\u2019s great and all, but the problem is once your user goes to YouTube, you pretty much lost them. You have to compete with videos of cats and Epic Rap battles of history.<\/p>\n

What xTV offers is a closed experience where not only the videos you want your users to see are provided, but they can be organized into channels with each channel showing a list of thumbnails of the videos in that channel. Nice. But that is not where the win is …<\/p>\n

Because this is internet based, displayed using any HTML5 compliant browser, the experience can be interactive.\u00a0 So not only can your viewers watch your content, they can interact with screen as well.\u00a0 If the screen happens to be a large monitor on a wall, then the users can capture a 2d QR code and interact using their cell phone.\u00a0 Sweet eh?<\/p>\n

\"microsoft\"<\/a>So what are some use cases?\u00a0 Well as I alluded to above, you may have a number of monitors in an office lobby, or displayed at an event that will play your videos in a loop.\u00a0 With the QR code displayed at all times, visitors walking by\u00a0can use their phone to interact with the video, perhaps answering questions in a quiz, or perhaps learn more about a company\u2019s offerings or positions they are trying to hire for.\u00a0 Since everything is internet based, they can even take the video loop playing on the screen and take it with them to view on their own devices.<\/p>\n

More? Here is a use case I want to see…\u00a0 I went a two trips recently.\u00a0 In the hotel on the first trip, the hotel played a loop of videos about the local shoppes and attractions.\u00a0 However this was a loop, I could not say, just see restaurants, I had to sit through content I was not interested in.\u00a0 On the second trip, which I did not research ahead a time, I expected to see the same type of video feed, instead this place just had cable. So I was stuck with using Yelp, which is ok, but I would rather hear and see from the restaurant themselves.\u00a0 How much better would it have been that I could have called up the restaurant channel at the hotel, or even on the way to the hotel to see what we might like to eat?<\/p>\n

Now as you can guess, this is not just a general review of something I found on the internet, I have been an adviser to xTV for near three years and have joined the team full time.\u00a0 So there!<\/p>\n

Now back to the goodness… and why I’m writing this post…<\/p>\n

There are many other great use cases that are being defined with customers, but what I wanted to write about, and perhaps get some feedback on, is what ELSE can we do with this?<\/p>\n

Part of the xTV system is to allow users to create their own networks.\u00a0 What interactive elements would people put on the display?\u00a0 Or run on the phones browser? So let\u2019s say you have a network with a bunch of channels with music. It\u2019s HTML5 so anything you can imagine on a webpage is doable. There are the easy things; voting on content, comments, and of course online shopping.\u00a0 But what else? Pull up lyrics perhaps? Read the musicians\u2019 bio? Tour dates? One of my hobbies is VR.\u00a0 So if I put a VR channel together, perhaps I could show a code that lets the user into a virtual world with other people who clicked on the code.<\/p>\n

So check out the Network and let me know what you all think.\u00a0 You can leave comments here on my blog or via contact us at\u00a0xtv.net<\/a>\u00a0if you want it private.\u00a0 Check the video below…<\/p>\n

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