LocateTV - a revolution in Online TV Searching?
Through a random series of events unfolding (thanks John), and a few e-mails being sent, I last night attended the launch of the pivate beta of a new website - LocateTV.
In their own words: “The idea behind LocateTV is simple - to let you find TV shows available where you live in the world, be they on broadcast TV, online or on recorded media (DVD, HD-DVD etc).”
The project is still in the beta stages - and rightly so - there are still a large number of bugs, but the basic concept is definately an interesting one, and one that I personally feel has a lot of potential. With the release of the BBC iPlayer (for better or worse), 4onDemand and various other online TV watching choices, it is soon going to be common place for people to go online to watch their favorite (or not so favorite) TV shows. With so many services all pumping this stuff onto the net, how are you going to know where to look for it? Maybe it isnt on the net yet, but is going to be on Freeview in 2 days time? The idea behind LocateTV is to group all of this together in one easy to search location. And for the most part, it works. In addition, if the show you are looking for is not on TV any time soon, it’ll allow you to price check the best DVD prices.
It’s not exhaustive at the moment (I couldnt find The Tomorrow People on there) - but it’s not finished. In addition, the search needs a bit of work - searching for Angel gives me a lot of people named Angelica, but not the TV series I want, and sometimes you will get two versions of the same site - but these are all kinks that will be ironed out over time, and hopefully in time for the launch.
There is also an option to embed all this information on your own blog/forum/site using a standardised dynamic graphic, that will update to track your favorite show, actor or whatever. At the moment, this is a large clunky graphic, but I was told last night that there will be multiple options made available!
In my mind, once the kinks get ironed out, this will be an excellent resource that I will use almost daily (especially if the add RSS feeds, which are sadly lacking at the moment… nudge nudge…). At the moment, to get close to all the information that they are supplying I have to flick between a number of sites - TV.com, IMDB, Radio Times, and FindDVD, where as this will give me all this information (albeit to a lesser level of depth) under one roof.
In summary, I think it is a great idea, and once the kinks are straightened out, it will definately be a resource worth using. I’ll be using it over the coming months, and will post about any major developments that I feel are worth mentioning!
So, in the meantime, keep your eyes peeled, watch the blog, sign-up for the e-mail updates, and wait patiently - it should be worth it 
August 2nd, 2007 at 23:52
See the “large clunky graphic” here:
http://blog.robmay.me.uk/2007/08/locatetv-when-is-doctor-who-next-on.html
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:23
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