NDTV.com Gets A Makeover; Live Streaming And Video No Longer Behind Subscription Wall
The redesign of NDTV.com has gone live, and as a change in policy, live streaming of video content from their English news channel, NDTV 24×7 is no longer behind a paid subscription wall. The NDTV video stream was earlier priced at $5.60 per month, or $56 for the year.
I think this change has been influenced by GBN offering free video streaming online for CNN-IBN and IBN7. Incidentally, I could only hear the audio of GBN’s Windows Media based streams. NDTV’s video stream, however, is flash based. Also, I wonder if there are plans to serve different ads for the Internet…NDTV Media already serves video ads online on Desktop TV.
Access to video content at NDTV is also no longer behind a subscription wall, and the video content loads in the same page. Where I think IBNLive’s (flash based) video content has an edge is that they allow users to embed videos on their blogs or forums, and NDTV would do well to adopt that.
NDTV.com is allowing customization of the index page (add and remove sections displayed): they’re calling it ‘My News’ and I initially mistook it for the ‘My News’ that they have on TV, which allows users to vote for news via SMS. The new design looks far more readable, and the interactive section (blogs, specials, forums, hot debates) is prominently displayed. Other NDTV sites, however, are yet to receive a makeover.
Nikhil,
>>NDTV’s video stream, however, is flash based.
Majority of IBNLive's videos are Flash based too.
One distinction I found is that quality of the videos on IBNLive is much better than on NDTV.
Also, another point I just observed…They have ads for a good 3-7 minutes in between the interview break. So, it seems that they pretty much are putting up the videos from the TV channel directly.
I think they should edit the videos and reduce the duration of these ads so that the viewer does not lose interest.
The quality of ads on iblive is much better .
The site design is not that impressive..
takes ages to load completely even on a fast connection.
and in-video ads for such a long duration ?
I dont think its a a great move.
sorry .. i meant quality of video and not quality of ads
i would like to receive news updates from ndtv to my person al emailid
I want to know, can we put ibn vedio straming on our website? I have seen many website displaying IBN live vedio on their sites. Is it legal?
I want to know how i cn post NDTV in my own blog
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