Sinch TV Finally Crawls Out of Beta
Remember… wow, it must have been a couple years ago at this point… remember when we “launched” the “beta” version of something called “Sinch TV?” It’s OK, I’ll give you a minute to think. It was sort of a non-event but it was semi-significant if only for the fact that we finally got most of our videos online in one place (YouTube) and in an easy to watch format. Other than that, there wasn’t much to look at.
Last night, without any sort of planning ahead, I just decided to launch a new Sinch TV. I’m not exactly sure how I pulled it together… I think the allergy medicine must have had something to do with it. But by about 1:30am we had a new site.
We’re still in the process of adding all the stuff we had on YouTube and we’ll hopefully have some brand new stuff as well. Bear with us while we get everything worked out. It’s been like 2 years at this point so I’m sure you can wait another week or two.
The new site is built on two services/applications that we would recommend to anyone:
This site (Sinch.net) is actually built on Wordpress, so it’s probably nothing new to anyone who pays attention to that sort of thing. And we’ve actually had a few of our videos on Viddler for a while now, but never really made it a point to let anyone know.
Why the move from YouTube? Well, to be honest, the fact that I found a Wordpress theme specifically made to work with Viddler videos had a lot to do with it. But it’s also (I think) a superior site to YouTube in a couple of ways, mostly centered around the commenting features. Also we can upload much larger videos than YouTube allows.
If you’re looking for something more immediately noticeable, you can add comments to specific points in a video. You can’t do that on YouTube. So, now if you want to comment on Mike’s ball shaking technique, you have that ability. This also means that you can comment on our videos without leaving our site, even though they are just embedded videos coming from Viddler. To comment on a YouTube video you have to click through to their site and use their controls.
And the second cool feature we like is the ability to record video comments without leaving our site. If you have a web cam, you can just click “Record or Choose Video” underneath the comment form and record your own video responses to our videos. You can do something similar on YouTube, but again you’d have to leave our site to do it.
Note: Apparently there’s a bug in the theme I used that prevents the videos from showing up on some pages in Safari. Until we get it worked out, you can try another browser or check out our videos directly on Viddler
