WebTV

The WebTVs make it possible the Net surfers to look at a television channel on line, same manner that the webradios make it possible to listen to radios.

WebTV uses the technology of the Streaming to diffuse its contents. The customers call a video stream which they look starting from their navigator or of a multimedia player.

Among the formats used for the diffusion of vidéos in streaming, one can quote: Windows Media Video (Microsoft), QuickTime (Apple), RealVideo (RealNetworks), Ogg Theora (Xiph.org), FLV (Macromedia).

History of WebTV

One generally indicates by webTV any Internet site whose contents are with dominant video. They are to be distinguished from the traditional televisions diffused via bouquets ADSL on like MaligneTV or via FreeBox.

The first webTV appeared in the United States, as soon as it was easy to diffuse video on Internet, i.e. when the company Real Networks, founded by Bob Glaser in 1993, put its software of " free; streaming" with provision of the Net surfers. The firm of Seattle was pionnière in the development of this technology. It is interesting to note that it was called in the beginning Progressive Networks, this technology being mainly used by the alternative media, rather on the left. But the " Real" politik quickly took again its rights! The software of Real Networks was initially used to make of the online radio. The first radio diffusion took place in 1995. The most known operator of the general public was created the same year in the United States by the Californian insane ones of Tennis shoe which lived Texas and wanted to follow the matches of their team on the west coast. Thus Audionet was born. In July 1999, the renamed company Broadcast.com was sold in Yahoo! for the astronomical value of 5.7 billion dollars (in Yahoo! actions). The RealVideo software making it possible to visualize video online left in February 1997 and was immediately used by many company the New Yorkean company Pseudo, founded by Joshua Harris which diffused radio programs sets of themes, and which declined them in video.

In June 1996 in France, Thomas Daubresse and Emmanuel Faure of IMAGINET have on line retransmis (its direct with RealAudio + a webcam and a software house for the images) with a baptized machine the Internet Mobile video a left turnip with Etampes bringing together 7000 people, connection was ensured thanks to a phone line being in a hut and 50m of cable entéré under the dance floor, the whole was filmed by Arte and the report diffused at the time of one evening Théma " KIS the Future". They gave that in October 1996 while diffusing on line the first auction sale of a virtual work of Fred Forest to the auction-room Drouot, this time connection to the waiter being done thanks to a line numéris. They then diffused in 1997 and 1998 various concerts and events as soon as the RealVideo software appeared.

In France, the first uses of the video on Internet were professional. The first video diffusion on line on Internet in Europe took place in September 1997 at the time of World congress Endocardiologie to His, Italy with average the techniques of ISDNET and EMPREINTE.COM company rested by François Charon. PROGRESS-IMAGE specialized in the medical emissions, as operations filmed on line for an audience of doctors and continuing education, was the first chain creates by Jean François Réveillard in the field, with regular programs dice June 1997. One can also quote company STREAMPOWER, rested by Gilles Machac, who diffused into 1997 of the general meetings with the company of Jean-Louis Amblard CYPERUS. In September 1997, Jacques Rosselin, creator of International Mail, a baptized semi-monthly newsletter CANALWEB launches, in partnership with a pioneer of the minitel, François de Valence. In July 1998, 26 numbers later, this company becomes the first European operator of television on Internet intended for the general public, on a model close to Pseudo. CanalWeb proposes a bouquet of an about sixty " chaînes" sets of themes, proposing programs on line and with the request: failures with Stephan Laborde and Eloi Relange, video games with Sebastien Lubrano, smooth jazz with Richard Benhaïm, music of the Antilles with Charlie, country with George Lang, erotism with Brigitte Lahaie, international with the Diplomatic World, of the talks shows with Pierre Botton, Stephan de Rosnay or TéléCrash 2000 with Laurent-Laurent (who did the one of the Wall Street Journal Europe thanks to his emission!). One can also quote the emission téléPerso, animated by Emmanuel Collobert, and which already proposed to the Net surfers of poster their vidéos on the site…. Since 1998 Emmanuel Collobert creates ToutélaTV, the first Web TV of classifieds customized on TF1.fr, Excite, Lycos and other large directories of the Internet of the moment. After the bursting of the Bubble Internet in 2001, CANALWEB pains to find an economic model. It files for bankruptcy in September 2001 and puts the key under the door in April 2002. Other companies were pionnières on this crenel general public: Nouvo.com (Eric Covering joint) and alatele.com (Michel Field). PROGRESS-TV, rested by Jean-François Réveillard, who had also made evolve his leading model to the offer of specialized channels, will undergo the same fate, one however currently finds Jean François Réveillard on Second Life via its declining project DBC a very new form of virtual Interactive television. Only the platform OC-TV.net (Jacme & Patricia Gaudas) created in 1999 is still on line.

Today, all the traditional television channels are accessible on line, on line and in video with the request. But since this time pionnière, " chaînes" original on the Net are rarer and if the webTV knows a strong renewed interest today, in France and in the world, it is especially thanks to the development accelerated with the sites of participative videos: Youtube in the United States and in France Dailymotion or Kewego.

Very many sites also propose to them " chaîne" of television, such as for example those of the candidates to the presidential election, and one attends the first attempts at television channels general public, only diffused on the Net, such as for example LaTéléLibre, rested by John-Paul Lepers.

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