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TV Genius Launches Internet TV Trial

Monday, October 31, 2005, posted by Tom Weiss
TV Genius, the intelligent search engine for UK television, has launched a trial service which adds internet TV to its comprehensive and popular guide at http://www.tvgenius.co.uk.

As well as getting listings for the best of UK TV, users searching for programmes will also be presented with possible shows from premium online video sources such as the BBC, Fox, CBS, RooTV, the Internet Archive and Forbes.

Tom Weiss, co-founder of TV Genius, comments: ‘An amazing number of high quality videos are freely available on the internet. You only need to search for Popeye, Neighbours, or Coldplay to find good quality content you wouldn’t find on regular TV.’

‘Our goal is to index all the legal, free video available on the internet and present the content to our users as another channel that sits alongside conventional television listings. The television market is clearly going to change significantly as people watch more television over the internet, and we’re planning to be right at the heart of that change.’

To date, TV Genius has indexed tens of thousands of internet videos and will have more than 100,000 items by early next year.