Background

At the risk of becoming the official "In memory of VHS!" blog, if you don't know what I'm talking about), here's another use for that old VCR when you replace it with a SnapStream Server or a SnapStream Mini:

In this article on Slate.com by Christopher Beam, it's mentioned that SnapStream got a nice shout-out at the Republican Party's Tech Summit last week:

As I wrote in an earlier blog post, a lot of our customers drop their VCRs and VHS tapes in favor of recording and searching TV with a SnapStream Server. So we end up seeing a lot of VCRs and VHS cassettes tapes. A whole lot.

The LA Times ran a story earlier this week about a big distributor of movies and TV shows dropping the VHS format.

Sometimes, we hear about cool and unexpected ways that our customers are using our TV search technology. This one example.

Today, we're taking pre-orders for a new TV search product from SnapStream -- the SnapStream Mini.

One field where SnapStream's TV search technology is having an impact is broadcast television research in the field of journalism. Rather than manually transcribing TV broadcasts for the purposes of content analysis, researchers are using SnapStream to automatically retrieve full transcripts for TV shows.

It’s been a little over a year since we released the SnapStream Server, our turn-key TV search appliance that allows organizations to record lots of TV and then search inside those recordings, and we've accomplished a lot in that year! Some of the highlights:

Jed Lewison, the video blogger behind The Jed Report, has been using SnapStream's TV search appliance to make his point: