Dailymotion Review

What is your favorite news site? Do you like watching or reading news. We suppose that the answers might be slightly different. But still we consider that modern people who prefer Ipad, Iphone or Android, they don’t read so much, they like to watch. In this case we have found a site with possibility to acsess news in a video format on your Iphone or Ipad. Let us introduce you dailymotion.com

Site provides.

Site has millions of videos to show you and to entertain you. Here are many sections like Live News, World News, Sport news, Celebrity, Auto, Gaming and many others. So you probably have noticed that main accent is made on providing videos news. And in all these sections you can find a lot of channels to watch. So all these videos are grouped and classified. You can see the most viewed videos of the day or of the other period of time. You can watch top rated videos (usually they are most interesting or best done videos). There are also some other filters so you will not get lost in all these videos.
Community Site has many options for communication between users. The most important is just sending your answers or comments to the videos you have seen. Also you can send a video to you friend or make something like a video answer. If you liked not only one video of the user or of the channel you can subscribe and you will know about all new videos coming from this particular account. User can vote and decide what are the best videos and they can add them to the favorites.
HTML5 player beta This is a new technology for watching the video content. Unfortunately this beta does not word so good. There is a very limited list of browser which can support it. But still this is probably the solution for comming future. Many other video hostings already offer video players based on html5. It has many advantages like better performance, stable streaming. absence of additional codecs.
Mobile version This makes the site interesting particularly for our review. Many people would like to watch news in their Iphon’s or Ipad’s but sometimes they just don’t know how to arrange this. Mobile version of daily motion arranges it. After installing this application into your device you can:
Watch the whole lists and categories(14) full of videos (11 millions) and decide what exactly you would like to watch.
After you have scrolled down and found exactly what you need, you can just press on it with your finger and it will start playing (in full screen mode). You have in mobile version the same features you can apply filters and choose the most popular or highest rated videos.
Search. This is very easy to find videos you are looking for, you can just type in the keyword or tag and all videos connected to this word will be shown in the list. If you have found something that really impressed you and you would like to share it with your friends, it can be easily done.
And the last but not the least feature is uploading your own videos. You can first press on capture video or if you have already a video press “upload it”. This works fine and easily but for uploading videos you need at least Iphone 3G or a newer model

Site drawbacks.

Concurrence Site has no unique or very interesting functions. It has very strong concurrence from other video hosting.
Streaming Sometimes it’s almost impossible to watch the video because of law streaming speed.
Languages Here is only English version of the site provided.
Platforms We liked very much the mobile version for Iphone and Ipad, but still there are no versions for Android or BlackBerry.

Site summary and verdict. This service can be accepted for watching videos on Iphone. Probably this is the most interesting feature of the site because other features and services can’t keep the level of concurrence. Site has clear structure and easy navigation and many serious videos. So this maybe an advantage for users who don’t need the entertainment videos. But still usually the want to have “all” videos of the world on one site. And there is such a site and you definitely know it. Unfortunately this is not about the dailymotion.com Our own experience is rather neutral, the themes and the quality of content and particularly of the videos wasn’t good enough. We wouldn’t advice you this site as a serious source of information, but still it can be accepted as a good entertainment portal for your mobile device. Impressive is the speed of streaming works faster than youtube. So this makes a sense to watch music videos here. But still the quality of videos is far to the quality of Vimeo.
Verdict: good for watching video news or funny videos on Ipad, other video hosting offer you more.