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Free Iliad has launched the TV Perso service, what this does is it provides its 2 million broadband ADSL2+ subscribers in France access to a special channel on their TV with user generated Live and On-Demand content.

User-generated On-Demand content is captured by the Freebox HD’s analog Composite or S-video line-in, is encoded at 3.5mbit/s Mpeg4 and uploaded slowly using 1mbit/s and can be made available to the public or to a limited amount of friends.

User-generated Live content is also captured the same way but encoded at 800kbit/s Mpeg4 and is streamed directly to an unlimited amount of Freebox users in France. For Freebox HD users in certain areas of France with Fiber to the home, they can broadcast 3.5mbit/s quality video live.

For now the user-generated content can only be captured from the Freebox HD’s composite or s-video input thus it is only SD resolution for now. But Free has said it could become HD quality using HD-capable webcam or video-cameras on the USB-host connection.

This is definately more impressive than Youtube since it’s 3.5mbit/s for user-generated content at DVD resolution in Mpeg4. And the Live video is more impressive than mogulus, ustream, justin since it’s broadcasted directly to people’s TV.

The TV Perso service has been online only for a few days, and http://www.universfreebox.com/article3553.html and http://freenews.fr are already reporting of very fun and awesome user-generated Live and On-Demand content.

Just as I saw awesome live iPhone launch coverage a couple of days ago made by Mogulus at http://iphonelaunch.tv, the French are using participatory tactics on their Live user-generated TV channels, chatting with viewers live on Skype, answering questions on chat channels and more.

I expect a French made Archos TV+ would be able to sell this service and feature to the rest of the world. Such as VOD to the TV, and using the recording ability and the Internet upload connection to upload user-generated live and On-Demand high quality Mpeg4 video.

This is a video in french by a french technology magazine SVM showing the interface of this service:

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A video of some of the very awesome content already being uploaded by the french users of Freebox HD broadband connections, remember this service has only been launched 3 days ago: