Personal Video Butler
Dean Collins has an insightful post - and not just because he mentions Scouta
: VH1 podcasts.
Well consider this, if the general public are now being targeted for general non-geek podcasting how much more of an extrapolation can it be that people are “podcasting” television shows direct to a hard drive equipped set-top box fed directly over raw IP Internet.
All you need is some type of xml editorial guide, recommendation or just a very good EPG that allows you to view text/meta data and these “raw videos” or probably more likely a feed that is loosely ‘collectively’ a channel that has similar shows one after the other sequentially or grouped together under a common brand (or even common sponsor/advertising group).
Your personal video ‘butler’ will ’spider’ appropriate content in a way far better than you could searching aimlessly for yourself.