[HN Gopher] Cloudflare TV
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       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.
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       | [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.
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       | 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.
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       | [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"
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       | the 24/7 aspect is cool and it is this point I was excited about.
       | I thought they would do something different.
        
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