[HN Gopher] Cloudflare TV ___________________________________________________________________ Cloudflare TV Author : eastdakota Score : 42 points Date : 2020-06-07 22:10 UTC (50 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (cloudflare.tv) (TXT) w3m dump (cloudflare.tv) | eastdakota wrote: | Details and rationale: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ladies-and- | gentlemen-cloudflare-... | calcifer wrote: | Seems like a useful service, but there is something quite ironic | about having a video titled "The Risks of a Consolidating | Internet" [1] hosted by Cloudflare. | | [1] https://cloudflare.tv/best- | of/478d779664ac0f7ae7fe21064bdcb4... | ireflect wrote: | This is really interesting and I hope it's a success. It seems | like it's intended to be 80% useful and 20% tongue-in-cheek joke. | | I'm skeptical that viewers will prefer this live scheduled format | rather than simply posting all the videos to be viewed on-demand. | Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of this anachronism (and | especially their 80s-era channel ID logo to go along with it) but | personally I prefer to consume videos from tech conferences on- | demand. [1] | | It looks like they are also posting the videos for on-demand | viewing in the Best-Of section, so maybe the live scheduled | format is just a delightful gimmick. | | [1] https://media.ccc.de is my favourite | 4636760295 wrote: | Let me guess, this is a new content marketing channel? | cocktailpeanuts wrote: | at first i was very excited just hearing "cloudflare TV", but it | doesn't look like this is what i was expecting. | | i don't really get the point of this. it's just another live | conference broadcasting platform? why would people use this | instead of just broadcasting on YouTube? Maybe i'm missing | something but feels like just another marketing scheme that came | from someone saying "hey this coronavirus is supposed to be the | fad of the day for video startups, we should do something too" | | the 24/7 aspect is cool and it is this point I was excited about. | I thought they would do something different. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-07 23:00 UTC)