Flickr TV?

Via PSFK, Time Warner is going to offer Flickrish capabilities to its digital cable and Road Runner high-speed internet subscribers.

PhotoShow TV allows users to take their digital photos and video clips to create slide shows, then showing them on the TV screen. Users can even share them publicly with other subscribers over Time Warner’s Video-On-Demand network.

According to Time Warner, “this brings the family photo album to a whole new level."

Pretty cool. But remember when we dreaded being subjected to a relative's vacation slide show? "Here's Aunt Marge with a cactus, here's Uncle Harold with the cactus and here's a picture with just the cactus."

We've come a long way. This has much bigger implications as it relates to consumer-generated marketing and how marketers play into a new channel like this. More from Ad Age on the "growing potential of prosumer produced content." (reg. req.)

Amy and a Cactus uploaded by Paul Hammond

tags | media | Flickr | cable TV | marketing | prosumers | consumer-generated media | Time Warner | PhotoShow TV

Comments

[John Wagner]

Kevin:

Here's another example ...

In the old days, when your child played a sport, you bought a package of still photographs taken by a studio.

Today, parents can shoot action photos with a digital camera and create professional-looking slide shows with music and movement all with simple software; burn the show to DVDs; and everyone gets a copy.

I have a relative who isn't a photographer or a designer and he's created some fantastic shows of youth baseball and soccer teams -- using the Road Runner software.

[Kevin Dugan]

We had a photographer at an event recently that printed them out right there after you took them.

Lately I've been playing around with Photo Story 3 to create short slide shows set to music. And I access all of my digital pics using Picasa.

It's amazing how things have evolved.

[thebizofknowledge]

I stumbled across your blog while I was doing some online research. I can indeed foresee the down side to this development--that of being held hostage to those who think that we all delight in looking at hundreds of photos of their children or their other relatives we've never met! The price we pay for progress!

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