Video clips now playing in Messenger
And the people cheered and God shuffled his feet
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft has launched a service on its Windows Live Messenger that will allow punters to watch videos with their mates online and chat about it all the way through the movie.
Dubbed Messenger TV, Vole will offer mostly music videos from the likes of file-sharing friend and maker of DRM Sony BMG.
Microsoft’s cunning plan is that punters will "create a whole new social experience" by watching clips at the same time as their mates.
John Mangelaars, the vice-president, EMEA, of consumer and online for Microsoft said it was a fairly obvious mix. Social networks have done well, so has online video, so why not put them all together?
He claims that it will be a social experience, as people watch videos together, make comments and share reactions. So next time some idiot in a cinema talks loudly during the quiet bits, it's not annoying, it's a social experience.
The service will launch in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico, most of the EU, but not the United States where people have guns. µ
L'Inq
Reuters
Comments
What would be nice...
is that they think large, hey come on... so everyone has 1 friend? I would like this feature to be shared with more than 1 person ergo 10+. That would be nice cause I have more than 1 friend.YPager
Yahoo Messenger 9 beta already has it.http://messenger.yahoo.com/win/
Sounds . . . absolutely ridiculous
I mean really, with all the VOIP stuff already available, for Heaven's sake why reduce the communication interface to a bloody keyboard ?Could we finally get integrated VOIP chat ? Watch a video, log in a friend, and TALK together.
Oh, I forgot, a 1MB pipe is too limited to watch a video AND use VOIP effectively. Actually, an 8MB pipe is barely enough. So when do we get the 100MB synchronized pipe we are all dreaming about ?