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August 6, 2006

Posted by neillevine

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There may be even more competition in the selling of Hollywood movies for viewing online.

“The Wall Street Journal” has just reported that Amazon.com, Apple Computer, Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, Comcast, Time Warner and AT&T are looking into this service already being provided by Movielink, CinemaNow and Vongo.

More choice. More options. The advantage is immediate delivery. The disadvantage is that this will cost money and tie up a computer.

But for people not strictly addicted to expensive, star studded, production intensive major studio movies, there is YouTube.

Founded in February, 2005, the site claims more than seventy million video views daily. This is a lot of traffic and gives the site an aura of significance.

YouTube tries to separate its content by categories designed to appeal to visitors as participants. So videos are listed by views. They are separated into a Home Page and by Channels, Groups and Categories.

The Home Page lists Featured videos, which are more supposedly more professional, more creative and more expensive. It is easy to find music videos for cds and plugs for feature length films and other more commercial broadcast shows.

Channels has groups of videos that are related by subject or creator something like a cable channel but more individualized.

Groups begin with Mentos, go on to lip synching and an OK Go Dance Contest and include a Make Your Own Blog Contest and a Comic-Con/Sony Contest. Need anyone say more.

Categories is a typical web page list that starts with Arts & Animation, follows with Autos & Vehicles, goes on to comedy, entertainment, music and news and ends with sports, travel and video games amongst the easiest to list categories.

Most of the videos hosted appear to be short. There is a great deal of quality, professionalism and videos to pique the interest of any jaded gamer or couch potato. It is pretty obvious that YouTube is destined to be the Amazon of internet web viewing for the foreseeable future.