Megavideo: Does It “Beat” YouTube?

a new online video sharing site based out of Hong Kong, has YouTube in its sights. In a video on its homepage, the company claims to best YouTube for ten reasons:

1. Video publishers can earn money through a rewards program
2. Publishers can also earn money through AdBrite in-video advertisements
3. Users can move the playback position to anywhere in the video
4. The website supports twenty languages
5. The video player can be customized to match the designs of websites where you want to embed
6. There is no maximum playtime for video uploads
7. Video conversion takes no more than 30 minutes
8. Videos can be uploaded in batch
9. Original video files can be downloaded
10. Megavideo loves you more than YouTube

Since users can also move the playback position to anywhere within a video on YouTube, and the last given reason is pure filler, only eight of these advantages seem to be justifiable.

The site is notable for its lack of banner advertisements. The company appears to be aiming to generate revenue by charging people for premium features. Premium members must pay at least $10 per month, but they can upload videos up to 5GB in size and their uploads get prioritized before regular members. Also, only premium members can download videos from the site (as opposed to streaming) and earn revenue from advertisements and the Megavideo rewards program.

Megavideo is provided by the same company that created Megaupload.

Watch Megavideo’s self-proclaimed ten reasons for preferring their service to YouTube below:

Buying tips Refrigerators

the refrigerators in the market cost between Rs.4,990-1,35,000. You first need to decide on the capacity of the fridge.

To give you a rough idea a family of 2 members would require about 50-200 litres. Add 20 litres for every additional member. However, remember that the food habits as well as the shopping habits also affect this calculation. Non-vegetarians would require a higher capacity refrigerator. If you are the kind of person who would rather shop for the entire week at a time, you should go in for a refrigerator with a larger capacity.

Although the gross capacity is the basis on which most refrigerator models in India are sold, the net capacity would give the consumer a correct estimation of the actual usable capacity of the refrigerator. Gross capacity is the total capacity of the refrigerator and not an indicator of the actual capacity, and as a thumb rule, you could reduce 8% to 10% from the gross capacity to get an idea of the actual capacity of the refrigerator.

Frost-free refrigerators have given way to defrosting since they have an in-built thermostat, heater and timer that activates the defrost cycle every 2 hours. Frost-free refrigerators make the messy chore of defrosting a fading memory. These models are priced upwards of Rs.10,000.

There are also models that have an a utomatic defrosting option which defrost the fresh-food compartment automatically, but the freezer still has to be defrosted manually. Models such as this are priced at Rs. 6,500 onwards.