Watching videos your way with iSofa

Filed under: Internet, Video, Search, web 2.0

Watching videos your way with iSofa

by Joey Celis Jul 17th 2008

Digital and satellite TV stations have given us so many channels to choose from it's sometimes difficult to decided on what to watch. And with the availability of shows on the Internet that decisions has become even harder. What if you could just type in what you felt like watching, maybe something romantic or some dancing and a list of videos that fit your criteria all came to you ready for viewing. If you like the idea of watching videos this way then iSofa may be what you've been waiting for.

In order to use iSofa, simply type in a search string and iSofa will bring back videos that matches your search and displays them in a heads up display type interface. From there you can just let them play in order or pick and choose what videos you want to watch.

The site is clearly in beta as some options only have graphic placeholders instead of actual functions. Also video quality is poor when you have your browser scaled larger than a post-it note, so we wouldn't even recommend you try the full screen option at this time.

Despite the negatives, we really like the idea behind the site and hope that in future versions iSofa increases the video quality as well as include an option to save favorites videos.

So far we like what we've seen and iSofa just might have something here.

Tags: IPTV, video, youtube

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Bruno Pinaud said 11:26AM on 10-25-2008

Now you can create your own channel at iSofa.tv.
It's like playing Rupert Murdoch. ;)

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