An interesting interview appeared today on the Financial Times (here’s the online version) with the top people behind the Venice Project: Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. The project has started attracting a lot of buzz after going public last week, and with the buzz also a whole lot of gossip and wild inaccuracies, so it’s nice to hear about it from a reputable source.
However, the article is a bit thin on information and not devoid of inaccuracies, like when it says:
The service, currently being trialled by 6,000 people, is capable of displaying high-quality, full-screen video on a computer screen. Users download a piece of software to their PC or Mac (although the service can be transmitted to a TV, it is currently designed for computer screens) and can then search for channels from a menu on the left hand side of the screen.
While it’s technically true that you can download the software to your Mac, in order to run it you have to have a Windows system. Running it on Windows on an Intel Mac with BootCamp is fine, but I’ll be truly happy only when I’ll be able to run the OS X version (real soon, hopefully) with my Mac Remote.
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