The Venice Project

The Venice Project finally get me the opportunity to test as beta tester their client and I should say I'm really happy with it. The interface is easy to use and the "superman's cristal-like" animation is something different.
As they asked to be discreet about the fonctionnalities I would not talk too much; I just want to say that if someone remember about an italian early 90's television program called "Mai dire TV" I'm sure he can imagine how funny and powerful would be a tool as TVP that will let users browse amongst hundreds of channels and tag, and share their favorite programs.
In my opinion once all those TV channels would be avaible on the net, we'll be soon submerged by tons of little videos caught here and there from TV and probabily we will see new services and new contents based on the mix of all this material as Youtube today shows how people are addicted to video contents and how they like re edit and merged films and images.

The Venice Project invitation quest

As somebody may knows The Venice Project is a brand new project by the founders of Skype that should propose a new way of thinking about television. "We're working on a project that combines the best things about television with the social power of the internet - a project that gives viewers, advertisers and content owners more choice, control and creativity than ever before." as reported by The Venice Project Team on their site http://www.theveniceproject.com/
Inscriptions to become beta tester have been closed this week and I've been able to fill the form just in time. Right now I'm looking for some beta tester invitations in order to start testing Project Venice features right now instead of waiting the next admission wave.
How I imagine this service?

I would like to build my own channel menu, picking up US channels as well as italian regional channels, I would like to set them it in the PV interface and watch them whenever I want. I assume that channels will be avaiable as streamings so I would not be allowed to cut off commercials, but I would be able to record my favourite program (as on TIVO) in order to watch them on other devices (i.e. home cinemas, iPods, PSP etc.). (Of course I would be able to cut off commercial when content are on my computer). Would all those features be avaiable? Would the commercial channels understand the importance to switch to the net and break the unidirectional way of communication that they're still devoted to?
Well see it on Project Venice.