Brightcove: Set up your own online TV channel

I’ve just been having a play with Brightcove, a system which allows anyone to set up their own online TV channel. It’s quite like YouTube but much more geared to content producers who want to charge for what they want to do and make a business out of it. It has other advantages over YouTube. I put together my own channel to test it out, and here are my initial thoughts:

• Easy to sign up
• Easy to use
• Comes with its own offline software application (the PublishPod) which converts the video before you upload it, unlike the annoying YouTube process which forces you to do it yourself, degrading the quality.
• It’s possible to set charges for each individual video. This is the first time I’ve seen this available in the UK, although I may be wrong.
• The player skin looks better than the YouTube one

I’ll post more as I play with it. Here are the results - it took about 20 minutes in total from start to finish to set up the channel and upload this video.