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To create a global, personal, open, free, TV-like new media: this is the driver at Babelgum.
We aim to offer to each one of you what is specific to your own interests, with video programming streamed over the Internet at near-TV resolution. Babelgum is a space to be built together and to be shared with others in the world with similar interests. On Babelgum you will be able to play the leading role by choosing the content you want to create your own TV channels and by being able to share them with your friends.
Babelgum, as an open, friendly and safe medium for viewing a wide range of niche-to-mainstream professional content must inevitably be outside the traditional boundaries of broadcast television and current IPTV offerings. Babelgum is a new kind of TV: it is fair, it is capable of offering free quality programmes and of safeguarding the copyrights of content owners.
We believe that Babelgum has the potential to deeply transform television, by combining the simplicity, immediacy and visual quality of traditional TV with the interactivity, unlimited capacity and global reach of the Internet. At the heart of this transformation lies a new peer-to-peer technology that enables for the very first time a scalable ‘unicasting’ of high-resolution video to anyone with a broadband connection, anywhere in the world.
Our platform is still under construction. We are currently in the closed beta testing phase and the open beta will be launched at the end of March, but we are setting up a Blog. Why? This is because we want to travel the remaining part of the journey with you. We would like to know what are your interests, the content you want and the features you would like to have. We hope to gather all your hints, ideas and your criticism to help us to improve this new medium.
Has the competition with other players started? Yes, and we’re mighty glad it has. Competition is good. Competition stimulates. We prefer a lively, competitive, innovative industry to an old, entrenched and declining one. We accept the challenge, and we will go all the way to trigger a revolution in the world of media and to help making it more open and more relevant to each one of us.
We will continue to work on this vision and we will keep you posted as to all developments. We appreciate if you are willing to contribute.
Now it’s up to you. We’re waiting for your inputs on the Blog.
Thank you
Erik & Silvio
Founders, Babelgum