Internet On Demand TV in Indonesia !
Friday, December 28th, 2007Wow ! Indonesia now has its own internet based on demand TV.
I just recently found out through our corporate grapevine, that WowTV is now available in Indonesia. It is a partnership between M2B World Asia Pacific with PT. Wow Television Indonesia (a subsidiary of PT. Agis, Tbk).
They offer programming through the web, or to your television through what they call WowTv media box, as well as through your handphone using WowTv Mobile.
There are several pricing tiers available to consumers, including a free one.
What’s so special about this ? Presumably it’s the ability to watch programming at any time 24 hours a day and on demand, unlike regular broadcast television, where you have to follow their programming schedule if you don’t want to miss your favorite show.
How good is it ? I really can’t tell you right now. I signed up for the free account and was able to browse through their free collections (which, by the way, seems to be really old programs that’s not bad if you just want to try out WowTv, but really can’t sustain you for more than several days). However, clicking on the programs, all I got was a “back to video listing” button in the middle of the screen.
I’m running it using Firefox on an iMac running Tiger. Perhaps there is some plug-ins or something that I’m missing ?