Revolutionising Television
A revolutionary new way to watch TV has launched that may see viewers across the country throwing aside their remote controls and tuning into their favourite programmes through their computer.
blinkx TV is the first Internet search engine that allows you to search TV across news, sports and entertainment programming. blinkx TV makes both TV and radio programmes from 20 international broadcasters including the BBC, ITN and Sky News fully searchable on demand and because blinkx captures and indexes the entire video stream directly from the television, consumers can get straight to the exact clip they want.
blinkx TV can be accessed at http://www.blinkx.tv and can be used by anyone without the need to subscribe or leave any personal details. Free-to-download, it is a new search engine which automatically and intelligently links to relevant information anywhere and in any format: on the Web, in the news or on the desktop. Utilising blinkx, users are no longer limited to a traditional keyword search. Instead, blinkx automatically and implicitly conducts searches based on the content being view by each individual user.
By bringing its revolutionary search capabilities to some of the most watched news and entertainment channels, blinkx allows consumers to find the exact point that consumers want to watch or listen to, thereby eliminating everything else that is not of interest, including advertisements. By entering a few words into the query box, consumers are automatically linked to the clip they're looking for - for example, entering "Kelly Holmes wins second medal" into the search box would take users to finish line of the 1500m race where the Olympian grabs another gold. Once archive content has been completed, users will also be able to watch famous moments from TV and film history for example entering the words "who shot JR" will bring up the famous Dallas clip.
In addition to offering consumers over 42,000 hours of video clips available on the Internet, Blinkx has also struck an agreement to search all Fox News Channel broadcasts. Having launched in the US three weeks ago, Blinkx TV offers an early glimpse of how people may one day find and view TV programmes. As satellite and cable operators offer an increasing choice of programming through video-on-demand, TV executives say improved navigation tools such as blinkx TV will be a key factor in determining whether or not people consume these services.
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