Konkan.Tv – Is it going to be the YouTube of India?
Konkan.Tv is the new venture of one of the famous Indian blogger, Rohan Pinto. Konkan is the name of the area in India and which is of around 30,000 sq. Kilometers in area and the reason Rohan kept this name was that he wanted to share the cultures, regions, traditions, lifestyle of people who have lived or share some roots in that area. Konkan.Tv is a video sharing website and which allows users to upload their videos for free. The fascinating thing about this service is that it is run and operated completely by one single person and that is Rohan himself. Isn’t that amazing and top of it the response time of the question asked to him related to the service is great. One will never complain about the customer service.
Now lets look at the positive and negative sides of the service and lets find out if it has the capability of becoming the YouTube of India. I know that it may be difficult but we never know that when a service gets popular in some part of the world. We can always take example of Myspace in U.S.A. or Orkut in Brazil or if third example then Bebo in U.K. I know that all these are social networks but Video sharing is also part of social networking only.
PROS of Konkan.Tv :
1. File Size : Konkan.Tv currently allows 100 MB per video file (normally video of around 10 min.).
2. Supported formats : It has huge range of supported formats (MPEG 1/2 ES/PS/PES/VOB, RIFF AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, QT, MOV, MP4, RealVideo, OGG, OGM, NSV, NUT, VIVO, FLI, CPK, PVA, RoQ, YUV4MPEG, MATROSKA and NUPPELVIDEO ) and I think that it is the biggest list of video files supported by any service.
3. Small but good community : The good thing is that Konkan.Tv is working very nicely on the community building aspect. It currently has very small number of users but it is showing good signs of becoming a stronger community. I’m sure that in future this community will help Konkan.Tv to achieve much more.
4. Safe for Children : The community takes care of the uploaded content and moderates offensive material. It targets more on cultural videos and thus it can be educational as well. And because the community is small then you can list Konkan.Tv in the list of safe websites for your children.
5. Future plans : Rohan is planning quite a few handful features and the features will certainly help in increasing the popularity of Konkan.Tv and the plans look good as well. Right now he has the file limitation but the limitation may be removed in future and thus people will be able to upload files which will be larger than 100 MB. At this point of time only registered users can upload the videos but may be soon people will be able to upload files of around 10 MB and that too without signing up for the service.
Other plans include the single sign-on feature and thus anyone with any Microsoft cardspace, openid, liberty and yadis ID will be able to login to Konkan.Tv
6. Instant release : Uploaded videos are released instantly or mostly in a gap 10-15 minutes and thus a user doesn’t have to wait too much as opposed to 24-48 hrs. in Google videos.
CONS of Konkan.TV :
1. Not the best of the player controls : Konkan.Tv uses flash technology to display the videos just like other video sharing websites are doing but the player isn’t the best of the lot as it has a very small bar for the player and it would have been nice if the player controls or the buttons would have been bigger in size. That really doesn’t make a difference but ease of use is one thing which everyone looks for.
2. No offline video player or up-loader : Although Rohan is planning to release an AJAX based up-loader but it will be really nice if he could also release an offline video player for download-able files and a resume supported up-loader. That can be a real peace of mind for dial-up users or may be slow broadband connection users.
Overall Rating & Views about Konkan.Tv :
Konkan.Tv is a feature rich service and has a small Indian community attached to it. No doubt that it can become the YouTube of India, if at all popular bloggers in India start using this service. If at all, it gets picked up by the best bloggers in India then certainly, it will receive the boost which it deserves.
Links : Konkan.Tv
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January 18th, 2007 at 5:59 am #
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Rohan Pinto
January 18th, 2007 at 7:59 am #
wow!! “youtube of india” now thats a title slapped on me that i need to live upto…. thank you….
I promise that I will strive my best to keep up to that expectation….
The cons that you have mentioned are 100% valid, and I’m working on overcoming them. and I’m sure that in due time I will.
It’s support from folks like yourself which will push me towards working harder towards making the service better and overcoming the current cons in the system.
Thank once again you for the constructive review.
Roubez
April 20th, 2007 at 7:12 pm #
I am sure this website (konkan tv) will get to the top….
if you dont believe me, try this out for yourselves.. (techies would know what i mean)
traceroute youtube.com
—-check the results
then
traceroute konkan.tv
—-compare the results
the results will give you an indication of where this site is headed towards.
I also have read some articles that konkan tv would be aquired by some source and that there is going to be a name change soon, but whatever may be the case, this site/service is headed towards fortune…
Suzanne Pereira
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:59 pm #
Hi ,
I am Suzanne Pereira a Mangalorean living in Washington. Few days ago I was doing detailed study on Mangalore and found two video websites. One is http://www.konkan.com and http://www.canaravideo.com
I was very happy to see them. But was shattered when I opened one of the websites ie, http://www.konkan.com. I have not come across such a slow tube sites. It takes half an hour to buffer one video and lost my patience the moment it started playing. I don’t know in which angle it sounds as India’s youtube.
well, in the mean time I opened the web http://www.canaravideo.com and was amused by its speed. It is amazing site with lot of videos as compared to konkantv.com. Canaravideo team is doing a great job. I need to salute them for their great work. They have very good collection of videos and am sure it is meeting all the standards where I feel konkan is just nothing infront of it. Instead of wasting your time I suggest you all to check http://www.canaravideo.com where you wont feel whether you are watching videos in the internet. Buffereing time is very short and it does not stop in between.
It was nice know a wonderful site is created by Mangaloreans and I am damn sure one day it would be No.1 site in the world . Whatever it is, the quality of the service always matters to at the end of the day and that has been maintained by http://www.canaravideo.com
well, wishing a great future for http://www.canaravideo.com.
Regards
Suzanne
Loknath Swain
May 8th, 2007 at 8:39 am #
It is really nice to read about http://www.konkantv.com . Mr Rohan and his portal is definitely “youtube” of India. I have had teleinteraction and email interaction with Mr Rohan. His interest and software skill is unmatchable and can lead him to be next youtube of India.
Rohan ! wish you best !!
Kamal
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:46 am #
There are lot more players in this market besides konkan.tv and anyone can be
bought out.
Here are few I found so far tubelist, meravideo,
layfile, and apnavideo.
And, I am sure there must be more.
Gopal Patel
July 21st, 2007 at 10:53 pm #
I don’t understand why all this websites call themselves Indian video sharing
websites, because most of videos you find at those sites are from US.
I think layfile & tubelist
has the most number of Indian videos than all websites listed above.
Mrugesh
August 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am #
Interview with Konkan.TV founder Rohan Pinto
Rohan pinto is the founder of KonkanTV – a video portal structured on the lines of Youtube.He wants KonkanTV to be more than just a normal video portal and is feverishly working on new ideas and concepts there.
Rohan will always be indebted to his parents for sacrificing all for his future… Read more at http://www.loscreador.com/2007/07/31/interview-with-konkantv-founder-rohan-pinto/