A Revolutionary New Way to Watch TV Comes to the UK

A Revolutionary New Way to Watch TV Comes to the UK

LONDON, January 14/PRNewswire/ --

- blinkx TV Makes Hours of TV Content Fully Searchable From Your PC



A revolutionary new way to watch TV launches today which may see viewers
across the country throwing aside their remote controls and tuning into their
favourite programmes through their computer.



blinkx TV is the first Internet search engine that allows you to search
TV across news, sports and entertainment programming. blinkx TV makes both TV
and radio programmes from 20 international broadcasters including the BBC,
ITN and Sky News fully searchable on demand. Because blinkx captures and
indexes the entire video stream directly from the television, consumers can
get straight to the exact clip they want.



blinkx TV can be accessed at http://www.blinkx.tv and can be used by
anyone without the need to subscribe or leave any personal details.



By bringing its revolutionary search capabilities to some of the most
watched news and entertainment channels, blinkx allows consumers to find the
exact point that consumers want to watch or listen to, thereby eliminating
everything else that is not of interest, including advertisements. By
entering a few words into the query box, consumers are automatically linked
to the clip they're looking for - for example, entering "Kelly Holmes wins
second medal" into the search box would take users to finish line of the
1500m race where the Olympian grabs another gold. Once archive content has
been completed, users will also be able to watch famous moments from TV and
film history for example entering the words "who shot JR" will bring up the
famous Dallas clip.



In addition to offering consumers over 42,000 hours of video clips
available on the Internet, Blinkx has also struck an agreement to search all
Fox News Channel broadcasts. Having launched in the US three weeks ago,
Blinkx TV offers an early glimpse of how people may one day find and view TV
programmes. As satellite and cable operators offer an increasing choice of
programming through video-on-demand, TV executives say improved navigation
tools such as blinkx TV will be a key factor in determining whether or not
people consume these services.



"Today's consumers deserve an easier way of finding video and audio
content online," says blinkx co-founder Suranga Chandratillake . "Rich media,
like video, is the next step in the evolution of search from Web to desktop
to living room. Using our smart, contextual search, blinkx TV links users to
relevant clips anywhere in the video stream, delivering video content
straight from the television to the consumer's PC."



The ability to watch TV where and when you want to is something that
consumers are showing an increasing demand for. Digital TV recording devices
such as Tivo and Sky Plus are growing in popularity and in turn are changing
the way we watch and access home entertainment. blinkx TV will offer now
offer an new, innovative way of tuning into our favourite programmes - by
simply logging onto the Internet.



"blinkx TV fills the gap between the explosion of rich media content and
the growing consumer interest in harnessing it. At blinkx we've recognised
consumer's needs and taken the search engine to a new level. Ground breaking
automatic transcription technology which transcribes content straight from
the cable box on the fly, or from video already stored on the web, together
with advanced phonetic matching speech recognition technology, automates the
process of searching TV clips for the first time," said Chandratillake.



About blinkx



blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer, is changing the way that
people think about search technology.



Free-to-download, blinkx is a new search engine which automatically and
intelligently links to relevant information anywhere and in any format: on
the Web, in the news or on the desktop. Utilising blinkx, users are no longer
limited to a traditional keyword search. Instead, blinkx automatically and
implicitly conducts searches based on the content being view by each
individual user.



blinkx is a privately held firm based in San Francisco and London. More
information is available at www.blinkx.com.





Source: blinkx TV

Media contact: Anouska Jayetileke, Mantra PR, +44-207-907-7800, Ajayetileke@mantra-pr.com



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