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iDesktop's new player makes your videos just that little bit slicker

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
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Those iDesktop.tv guys up in the wilds of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (ok, so it’s not that wild) have come up with a new version of their wrap-around video player and it’s actually pretty slick.

The bootstrapped startup composed of three young graduates has completely changed the design of the site, and added more functionality such as extensively customisable/embeddable players together with changes to playlists and downloading features. They’ve even created a TechCrunch Player based on our site design which takes videos from the TechCrunch YouTube channel. Other new features include: Custom embedded players for playlists, MP3 downloads among others.

It’s so interesting that they are concentrating on video players, at the same time as Quick.TV, coming out of Newcastle, is prepping its own video player product. Must be something in the water…

We previously wrote about iDesktopTV here and here.

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  • http://www.ukstevieb.com/2009/02/04/steviebs-shared-items-february-4-2009/ StevieB’s Shared Items – February 4, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace

    [...] iDesktop’s new player makes your videos just that little bit slickerFebruary 3, 2009 [...]

  • http://elotteryresults.net Jiya Nas

    That’s pretty kl, I’ll need to try it out 4 myself!

  • http://www.idesktop.tv Jason Grimmitt

    Sure you can, just go to http://beta.idesktop.tv and Sign-up for Beta Testing. We’ll then send you an email with all your Log-In Details :)

  • http://www.idesktop.tv/blog/?p=38 » Blog Archive » iDesktop.tv V2 Beta Gets reviewed on TechCrunch!

    [...] You can see the full review here review here [...]

  • http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/08/13/idesktoptv-relaunches-with-new-look-and-a-ton-of-new-features/ iDesktop.tv relaunches with new look and a ton of new features

    [...] last covered iDesktop.tv (formerly YouTube Desktop) in February, when they launched a new version of their player. But that was a relatively incremental update by comparison to this total relaunch of the service, [...]

  • http://www.newsjacker.co.uk/media/idesktop-tv-relaunches-with-new-look-and-a-ton-of-new-features/ iDesktop.tv relaunches with new look and a ton of new features 

    [...] last covered iDesktop.tv (formerly YouTube Desktop) in February, when they launched a new version of their player. But that was a relatively incremental update by comparison to this total relaunch of the service, [...]

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