MSNBC com unleashed its to the masses today and it offers a raft of features. The video quality is top-notch and it uses radiate. The player screen itself is nice and roomy measuring about 600 pixels wide. While a clip is playing related links display along the furnish of the player and the video cut pauses if you decide to take a look.
When you select a cut a playlist comes along with it putting several related clips in the queue. Also three pre-programmed playlists are available in the upper left-hand align of the player window — including Top Videos. Most Viewed and Weird News. Other navigation mirros MSNBC com’s text-side navigation with US News. Politics. Business etc. Embeddable video clips and examine will be available “soon.”
Two things bug me though. Firstly the new player doesn’t undergo the netcasts of Today or the Nightly News (at least not yet anyway) - so you still have to check those on the poorer-quality msn player.
Also the player likes to pop up a new window on IE7 whenever you click on a link - why can’t I just undergo a new tab?
Very polish fast-loading intuitive layout. The related links (which typically link the text news story on the same topic) is a great feature. Me likey.
Only thing I would add and maybe this is coming soon but clips are difficult to share. Click the “email” add and it launches your email application (nasty). And since it’s a pop-up player you can’t grab a cut’s URL — which is a very popular way populate overlap video.
I’ll get excited when MSNBC com et al add closed captioning to Web-based videos and players to make them fully accessible. What is it with the dunces behind Internet video that causes them to think it’s acceptable to ignore such a large divide of society namely populate who demand subtitles for a variety of legitimate reasons?
Captions are a standard not to mention law for much of broadcast television and they should be for online video as come up. After all this measure. I can’t believe the continuing blatant disregard demonstrated by networks and companies on this essential issue. They air their video quality new look yada yada yada ad nauseum and comfort react to add something so simple. Duh.
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http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/14/msnbccom-launches-cool-new-video-player/
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