Thursday, April 21, 2005
AOL to Launch Music Video Service
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"Although Winamp fell by the wayside late last year, AOL Music is continuing full steam ahead with a number of initiatives designed to bring in a broader audience of consumers. Last week, AOL announced a deal with XM Satellite Radio and now the company is planning to take on Yahoo's Launch and MTV with online music videos. AOL announced on Tuesday plans to roll out its own music video service in the coming months. The company has stuck deals with two record labels thus far for rights to stream their video libraries: Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group."
I can see this being successful with the teen market, and it would be a selling point for AOL. I like watching music videos now and then, and having a library from which I could draw any video would be cool - assuming the videos would be 640 x 480 or 720 x 240. When you have a high resolution monitor, cheesy 160 x 120 sized videos just don't cut it anymore. But none of that will make me join AOL. :lol:
I can see this being successful with the teen market, and it would be a selling point for AOL. I like watching music videos now and then, and having a library from which I could draw any video would be cool - assuming the videos would be 640 x 480 or 720 x 240. When you have a high resolution monitor, cheesy 160 x 120 sized videos just don't cut it anymore. But none of that will make me join AOL. :lol:
