Vodpod Blog

Vodpod helps people bookmark and collect their favorite videos from any site,. And we have tools that make it easy and simple to publish your video collection to any site, so people can watch those videos anywhere you like.

A logical next step for us to is to make easy for people to watch your collection not just on any site, but on any device — including your TV.

We’re starting to experiment with just that today, with the release of special RSS feeds for your Vodpod collections, and Vodspot sites, for Boxee, a very new (and very alpha!) bit of software that lets you watch videos on your PC or from the Net on your TV. People can now watch your video collection on a TV connected to Boxee by going to your collection (or your Vodspot, if you have one), copying the URL for the “Boxee RSS” feed, and pasting in at boxee.tv here.

Caveats abound: for someone to watch your videos through Boxee, they’ll have to have have Boxee installed on a device that supports it and is connected to your TV (you can also use Boxee just on your PC, but that kind of misses the point); and not all Flash players play nicely with Boxee, so your viewing experience will be a bit inconsistent.

But it’s interesting, and it certainly provides a peak into the future. We should note Boxee isn’t the only game in town. There is another similar, and very interesting bit of software called Plex, and we read with interest today that Flash10 is coming to a variety of phones this Fall. Interesting times.