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TVEyes' Podscope--sm-- Now Searches Video; Indexing All Forms of Audio and Video for Spoken Word Search

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2005--TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider, today announced that it is accepting all forms of audio and video submissions for indexing by keyword at http://www.podscope.com/submiturl.php. This announcement follows TVEyes' successful launch of Podscope(sm), the first engine to search within a podcast, in early April. In addition to these submissions, Podscope will continue to crawl the Internet for relevant audio and video files to be indexed by the spoken word.

Podscope allows the user to stream and download any video containing keyword search results. Full motion video is immediately available. "The interest in our Podscope launch has been astounding," commented David Ives, CEO of TVEyes, Inc, "TVEyes has been streaming search video results to its professional market for over two years, and we are delighted to put this invaluable experience to such comprehensive use."

After months of complaining about not being able to edit MPEG4 files, I now am in possession of an Apple PowerBook G4 (thanks to the nice folks at Apple). It is brain-dead easy for me to edit the MPEG4 files and create shows, movies, etc... Apple clearly is emerging as the company leading the way in consumer creation tools. I am now officially out of excuses to create a TV show based on some ideas I have been kicking around. Here is my first video

Do you think all these free email providers are offering large multi-gigabyte mailboxes for you to get every piece of junk mail in the cyberworld? Heck, no. It’s so you can use your mailbox as the receiving station for movies, music and TV content. So, by year’s end, you can wake up in the morning to find in your MSN, AOL Yahoo! or gMail accounts the latest episode of “24” or an old favorite from “Cheers” or maybe even my videoblog in your mailbox. This is not to mention the new pre-release song from “The Wallflowers.” At that point, the mailbox becomes your dashboard and you leave the program there, stream it to your TV or stereo system or move it to your phone or protable media player (or maybe even your iPod?).

 

We’re headed her…it’s just an issue of timing.