TidalTV is Pretty Damn Close to TV on the Internets

So, TidalTV is a site that has been in beta for a while and seems to be up and running for any and all to check out.

It is, in it’s simplest form, just another site to watch web videos, except TidalTV has licensed some actual live streams of cable TV including stuff from FoodNetwork, AP and others.  It is a pretty neat layout with a program guide that allows you to channel surf a bit like real TV – something I think has been missing from the web video experience.

While the content is really limited right now and I don’t think TidalTV is something one should invest money in since it seems remarkably easy to duplicate but it’s worth taking a peek to absorb the interface.

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If it Looks Like TV and it Smells Like TV…

PaidContent is reporting that TidalTV has pocketed a nice chunk of venture capital.  Who are they are what do they want to do.  Well:

“TidalTV wants to position itself as a provider of streaming video that’s professionally produced.”

Ya know, the more I think about the more it seems to me that professionally produced streaming video is, well, TV.

That is all.