Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Get rid of your TV recorder !

You have gone for a professional trip abroad, but few minutes after your arrival, you realise that you have forgotten to set up your recorder for your favorite TV program... Don't worry, Wizzgo is here !

The idea is to create an online TV recorder : thanks to a small player installed on your PC (called "Iwizz", you can choose the TV program you want to record amongst the whole TV schedule, just by clicking on it.

Few hours after the TV program, you receive the file by internet, and here you go ! You can watch the latest episod of "Heroes" you have missed because your girlfriend wanted to have dinner with her parents, and of course she wanted you to be there ! and don't worry, you can watch it on your computer but also on your IPod, IPhone, PSP and so on.

On a technical point of view, the video format used here is realplayer, which require to install the associated player. It is working on Windows as well as on Mac OS (sorry for the linux buddies).

In addition to that, you have several "community" functionnalities, in order to stick with the new trend : you can recommend a TV program to your buddies, publish your choices and follow your friend's choices... !

That sounds great at first sight, even if there are still some stuffs to improve, such as the image quality. I think this is a first start for a world without any physical recorders at all ! that sounds great !

So how does this company earns some bucks ? It seems that the economic model is based on ads, since this service is completely free and there are some ads on the internet site and the player.


Info concerning Wizzgo company :

Nationality : French
Status : Limited company
Registered capital : 99 920 euros
URL : http://www.wizzgo.com (only available in french)

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