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Introducing PrimeTimeRewind.tv: Discover, Watch and Share Prime Time Network TV Shows
Today I am launching a new company from the pulver.com Incubator, PrimeTimeRewind.TV. Amit Shafrir and I co-founded this company in 2007.
PrimeTimeRewind.TV provides one click access for consumers to watch the latest episode of their favorite Prime Time TV Shows (assuming the underlying TV Network has made the show available for free online viewing.)
The 2007/2008 television season is the first one in which each of the major US based TV and Cable networks embraced the Internet since the start of the TV season by offering complete episodes of most of their prime-time programs for free to people located in the USA. While this is an exciting development for USA based consumers (access to the online TV content is restricted by geography by each of the respective TV Networks), the discovery and viewing experience on each individual site continues to be rather challenging. Until today, there has not been any single platform available for watching all of the otherwise available Prime Time TV programs; each network requires visiting and hunting through a very different site and different user experience.
By provide one site the where people know they can go to and find any available prime time television show, PrimeTimeRewind.TV is removing the barriers and helping to improve the online TV viewing experience. Now, if you’ve missed the latest episode of your favorite prime time program, you can go to primetimerewind.tv and quickly and easily watch it at your convenience.
Central to the site is “The Cube,” a rich internet application that provides a multi-sided, three-dimensional view of all prime time television content that is available online. “The Cube” empowers viewers to sort programs by network (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, TNT and USA, with more networks to be added), and genre (action, comedy, reality, drama) to easily watch the latest episodes of their favorite programs. Users can customize “The Cube” with their favorite programs, as well as videos from YouTube and other video-centric social media sites.
Prime Time Rewind is not “stealing traffic” and viewers from the networks’ sites but rather acts as an affiliate and drives viewers their way. The Prime Time Rewind site is not a file-sharing system, nor does it contain its own video player. Instead, viewers click through “The Cube” to open a control-panel interface that brings consumers to the individual networks site, and presents the content in each network’s individual video player and presentation format, including advertisements. Viewers get the same experience as they would by simply clicking through to the sites for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, TNT and USA, without having to hunt for the favorite episodes of their show. Ultimately, the networks receive additional traffic for their programs, while viewers have a single destination and platform from which to watch all of their favorite shows, regardless of the network or genre.
While the traditional television set serves as a common platform to easily find programs and switch between TV networks, the viewing experience on the Internet is quite different. There is no easy means to “change channels” on the Internet, other than moving from Web site to Web site; similarly, each network’s Web site organizes content in a unique, and often, confusing way.
Prime Time Rewind simplifies watching network television programming online, while adding key social media capabilities. With Prime Time Rewind, all of your favorite prime time television programs are never more than just one click away.
Please give PrimeTimeReWind.TV a try and let me know what you think.
Today I am launching a new company from the pulver.com Incubator, PrimeTimeRewind.TV. Amit Shafrir and I co-founded this company in 2007.
PrimeTimeRewind.TV provides one click access for consumers to watch the latest episode of their favorite Prime Time TV Shows (assuming the underlying TV Network has made the show available for free online viewing.)
The 2007/2008 television season is the first one in which each of the major US based TV and Cable networks embraced the Internet since the start of the TV season by offering complete episodes of most of their prime-time programs for free to people located in the USA. While this is an exciting development for USA based consumers (access to the online TV content is restricted by geography by each of the respective TV Networks), the discovery and viewing experience on each individual site continues to be rather challenging. Until today, there has not been any single platform available for watching all of the otherwise available Prime Time TV programs; each network requires visiting and hunting through a very different site and different user experience.
By provide one site the where people know they can go to and find any available prime time television show, PrimeTimeRewind.TV is removing the barriers and helping to improve the online TV viewing experience. Now, if you’ve missed the latest episode of your favorite prime time program, you can go to primetimerewind.tv and quickly and easily watch it at your convenience.
Central to the site is “The Cube,” a rich internet application that provides a multi-sided, three-dimensional view of all prime time television content that is available online. “The Cube” empowers viewers to sort programs by network (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, TNT and USA, with more networks to be added), and genre (action, comedy, reality, drama) to easily watch the latest episodes of their favorite programs. Users can customize “The Cube” with their favorite programs, as well as videos from YouTube and other video-centric social media sites.
Prime Time Rewind is not “stealing traffic” and viewers from the networks’ sites but rather acts as an affiliate and drives viewers their way. The Prime Time Rewind site is not a file-sharing system, nor does it contain its own video player. Instead, viewers click through “The Cube” to open a control-panel interface that brings consumers to the individual networks site, and presents the content in each network’s individual video player and presentation format, including advertisements. Viewers get the same experience as they would by simply clicking through to the sites for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, TNT and USA, without having to hunt for the favorite episodes of their show. Ultimately, the networks receive additional traffic for their programs, while viewers have a single destination and platform from which to watch all of their favorite shows, regardless of the network or genre.
While the traditional television set serves as a common platform to easily find programs and switch between TV networks, the viewing experience on the Internet is quite different. There is no easy means to “change channels” on the Internet, other than moving from Web site to Web site; similarly, each network’s Web site organizes content in a unique, and often, confusing way.
Prime Time Rewind simplifies watching network television programming online, while adding key social media capabilities. With Prime Time Rewind, all of your favorite prime time television programs are never more than just one click away.
Please give PrimeTimeReWind.TV a try and let me know what you think.
