Live Coverage: DEMO Session II - Television Meets the Web

Below is our live coverage of the second Monday morning startup presentations at the DEMO conference in San Diego. Keep refreshing this page to view the newest coverage - we will note once the coverage has concluded. And check our main DEMO and TechCrunch50 conference section for our video event coverage as well.

Awind

– device to let you use a mobile phone to project to any projector
– pretty interesting
– can show powerpoint presentations
– no reason to carry laptop with you
– they show work situations
– shows the media center function - sending high res video from the phone to the screen
– from Taiwan - has a large investor crew

RealNetworks - RealDVD

– realdvd lets you catalog your dvds on your computer and watch them in a library format
– it’s a cataloging tool
– selling point? watching the movies on your pc won’t use the battery as quick as watching the movie on the disc
– of course this only works with pcs that are "authorized to watch"
– they can play and save at the same time - Allen: I am moist
– $30 - win only

bee.tv

– learns from your behaviour and tastes
– can pick up any tv from any source
– its a smart epg - electronic programming guide
– it’s like tivo 2.0
– can pick shows based on mood
– can show the tv on the mobile
– it’s a "personal content channel"

RemoTV

– the first internet media publishing platform to be truly social
– can stream audio, video and images to any internet device
– looks like windows media player with more features
– once video is added, it’s added to their growing list of devices
– you can play a video, you can share the content with a group and/or public
– you can watch the content via the RemoTV web site
– launching a Facebook application called Mediabook - can send a "mediapoke"
– can view RemoTV cotent via a cell phone

InvisionTV

– first interactive program guide for internet video
– combines 4 key - video search engine, social networking, program guide and something else i missed
– "the ultimate guide to internet video"
– actually pretty good looking
– allows for commenting - not sure if those comments are sent back to the publisher
– you can become a "fan" of a publisher or artist - and then link out to the other sites when not embedded in InvisionTV
– there’s a facebook application
– ok, this is my favorite so far

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