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Jeff Pulver, the founder of Vonage, wants to make watching online video experiences similar to traditional TV, and his new site brings tops shows from major broadcasters into one site.
Jeff Pulver launched this new website PrimeTimeRewind.Tv along with Amit Shafrir. The site allows visitors to watch all their favorite shows from NBC, Fox, CBS, USA, ABC and TNT on one site.
This year major broadcasters have started streaming their videos on their online sites. ABC.com, CBS.com, and others show their regular TV shows online for free. But if you want to watch a number of shows, you have to visit many sites, PrimeTimeRewind.Tv wants to make it simple by allowing you to watch all of your shows on just one site.
On his blog, Pulver talks about why his site is different:
While this is an exciting development for USA based consumers, 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.
Pulver and Shafrir are able to do this by accessing embed codes each of the networks provide for videos they are streaming. It makes it convenient for users who want to watch all shows on one site without the need for registration or downloading a different video client or software.
The cube shown in the picture represents the TV guide of the shows available in PrimeTimeRewind.TV and the user can click any of the cells to watch the video. The quality of the video is as good as the original feed.
The broadcast networks have no problem with this arrangement, since PrimeTimeRewind.Tv allows their video player and ads. Pulver is just syndicating their content and provides more traffic for them.
PrimeTimeRewind.Tv is very easy to use and the quality is excellent, so you can watch these shows anytime at your convenience.
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