Veoh aims to be one-stop shop for Net TV viewers
Site has quietly become most-watched indie online video site.
LOS ANGELES -- Dmitry Shapiro wanted to start a website that promised to be the CBS, NBC and ABC of the Internet, a one-stop shop for TV programming on the Web.
"Our goal is to give consumers the broadest collection of video available anywhere," Shapiro says.
A key selling point for Veoh, Yankee Group analyst Anton Denissov says, is a download feature that lets you save shows to watch later. The Veoh TV application aggregates full-length shows from all over the Web and lets you save them if downloading is an option.
Shapiro says that once you connect your computer to a television, Veoh TV can act as a TiVo-like guide. For now, download availability tends mostly to be made-for-the-Web productions such as Goodnight Burbank and Prom Queen. So far, CBS, Viacom, NBC and Fox aren't offering downloads of their TV shows, but PBS and the Time Warner-owned Cartoon Network are.
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