BlinkxBBTV.com - The Web Meets TV

You’re probably aware of the goodness that is Blinkx, the video search engine. It’s the hi-tech little search engine that could. Filled with over 18 million hours of video, forget leaving your house, cubicle or favorite wifi café. Blinkx will certainly entertain. And it’s upping the ante by delving into the video distribution biz. Called BBTV and officially launching today, BBTV brings TV to the internet. Of course, this isn’t anything new, there’s already, Joost and an entire army of similar sites. Unlike those sites, BBTV is about interactivity. BBTV is internet TV for the Web 2.0 crowd. The content is high quality broadband and offers the very cool feature of letting users essentially surf the video or tv show. While watching, you can look up info on actors, dialogue, directors, location, simply by clicking an information button. Blinkx’s speech to text technology, for example, let’s you access transcript of any video. You can also go to any part of the video by clicking on a word. Check it out. Download it.

"You’re probably aware of the goodness that is Blinkx, the video search engine. It’s the hi-tech little search engine that could. Filled with over 18 million hours of video, forget leaving your house, cubicle or favorite wifi café. Blinkx will certainly entertain. And it’s upping the ante by delving into the video distribution biz. Called BBTV and officially launching today, BBTV brings TV to the internet. Of course, this isn’t anything new, there’s already, Joost and an entire army of similar sites. Unlike those sites, BBTV is about interactivity. BBTV is internet TV for the Web 2.0 crowd. The content is high quality broadband and offers the very cool feature of letting users essentially surf the video or tv show. While watching, you can look up info on actors, dialogue, directors, location, simply by clicking an information button. Blinkx’s speech to text technology, for example, let’s you access transcript of any video. You can also go to any part of the video by clicking on a word. Check it out. Download it."

Blinkx has always been good with the latest and greatest video search. Blinkx BBTV is the logical next step. Interactive TV is a goldmine. Internet is ingrained in the way we watch, now we can watch and surf at the same time.

What about Mac? Will they make a Mac version as well? How about offering it without the downloading through a web browser? Will users like the range of content currently offered?