Streaming the media- Tudou

    When I started to find a website utilizing streaming media, the first one come to my mind is Tudou. Tudou is one of the largest video sharing websites in China, where users can upload/download, view, and share video clips. It served over 55 million videos and 2,000 new videos each day. Sounds like another Youtube? Actually, it clearly has difference from Youtube because the length of Tudou videos is usually much longer. Let’s say…I will surf on Tudou if I want to find movies/series to see, while go to Youtube if I want to watch MTV. 

    What I like about Tudou:

• 1. easy to use without downloading any software
• 2. Huge database and efficient search engine: No matter which language I key in, the result always gives me exactly what I want.
• 3. iTudou: Registered users can download videos into mobile phone, iPod and PSP by iTudou.
• 4. Interactive: users can leave comments, and give a grade and recommendation publicly.

   What I dislike about Tudou:

• 1. Bandwidth: The speed of downloading and watching online is too long.
• 2. Advertising: The background of video is advertising. It is annoying to see the advertising all the time behind the video I am watching.    

    When I choose the streaming media website for seeing videos to kill time, the most important element affects my decision is the speed of downloading. I believe that it is very important for users to see online videos smoothly. Therefore, I think that Tudou should give priority to improve its bandwidth. Moreover, it can consider to add some customized function. For example, users can modify the brightness and color of the video they are watching. Sometimes, the nuance will hit the sweet spot on the Internet.

 Supplement:Tudou’s wiki