blinkx launches its broadband television offering: blinkx BBTV will now be available without download, straight from your browser. Leveraging blinkx’s patented speech and visual recognition technology, BBTV simultaneously delivers a high-quality television experience over the Internet, and links it to the universe of information on the Web, adding dimension and context to the viewer’s experience. Now, BBTV is available in the browser, without any software download, integrating video into the fiber of the Web for true, full-screen Online Television.

The Web is the largest repository of connected information in the world - on any subject and from myriad sources. BBTV delivers television over the Internet, but it also fuses that TV with the wealth of information on the Web, rather than appearing as just another layer floating above it.

As with the previous version of BBTV, the new Web-based release enables users to instantly and easily browse or interact with online sources related to the program they are watching straight from their browser, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or other Web sites offering relevant information – from news and entertainment, to travel and sports.

Delivering the same unique functionalities as the downloadable version, BBTV in the browser enables an unprecedented level of interaction with online television. blinkx’s patented video indexing automatically creates a speech track of content within the video, making it easy for viewers to navigate literally word-for-word and jump to specific points in a program, simply by searching for a spoken word or name. While watching programs or movies on blinkx BBTV, viewers can instantly access features never before possible, including transcripts of the audio track and background information on everything from actors and personalities, to reviews and locations shown within the video. Alternatively, users can opt to sit back and watch the video full-screen, on-demand and in TV quality.

In coming months, blinkx will be adding dozens of additional channels and premium video content to the Web-based BBTV offering. BBTV is fully compatible with blinkx AdHoc, blinkx’s contextual advertising platform.

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech and visual recognition technologies to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.