Jason Dunn
04-20-2004, 08:02 PM
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"You know the story: 57 channels and nothing on. Or 200 channels… 200 channels of reality shows and reruns. Cop dramas and commercials. Lots of commercials. Well, guess what? There is an alternative—an entire world of quality programming that doesn’t make it to your television today. Untapped. Untamed. And untainted by TV’s “lowest common denominator” mentality. The world is a rich mine of video…so rich that one person could never locate it all, or separate the gold from the fool’s gold. If only there was a single source to scout out, sort out, summarize and deliver this wealth of video to your TV for your convenience.
Now there is: Akimbo. Akimbo is the first fully functional marriage of TV and the Internet, combining easy access to new and fresh video content with the comfort of watching it on your TV- all using the Internet. The Akimbo Player—the hardware of the Akimbo system—is a stylish set-top box that connects your broadband Internet service to your television set. Simple on-screen menus make it easy to choose and receive up to 200 hours of high quality video that the Akimbo Service delivers right into your Akimbo Player."
Hmm. So this is the hardware that attempts to bring Internet video to the TV - I wonder how it will fare? Looking at the list of content providers (http://www.akimbo.com/whatson.html) there's some potential there, but I wonder if the content is compelling enough?
"You know the story: 57 channels and nothing on. Or 200 channels… 200 channels of reality shows and reruns. Cop dramas and commercials. Lots of commercials. Well, guess what? There is an alternative—an entire world of quality programming that doesn’t make it to your television today. Untapped. Untamed. And untainted by TV’s “lowest common denominator” mentality. The world is a rich mine of video…so rich that one person could never locate it all, or separate the gold from the fool’s gold. If only there was a single source to scout out, sort out, summarize and deliver this wealth of video to your TV for your convenience.
Now there is: Akimbo. Akimbo is the first fully functional marriage of TV and the Internet, combining easy access to new and fresh video content with the comfort of watching it on your TV- all using the Internet. The Akimbo Player—the hardware of the Akimbo system—is a stylish set-top box that connects your broadband Internet service to your television set. Simple on-screen menus make it easy to choose and receive up to 200 hours of high quality video that the Akimbo Service delivers right into your Akimbo Player."
Hmm. So this is the hardware that attempts to bring Internet video to the TV - I wonder how it will fare? Looking at the list of content providers (http://www.akimbo.com/whatson.html) there's some potential there, but I wonder if the content is compelling enough?