TVO presents its new online video player, created using the Brightcove Internet TV platform. TVO has initially launched the player on its popular web site for kids, tvokids.com. Kids opening the tvokids.com video player are greeted by colourful menus that enable them to choose channels of full-length curriculum-based video content, broken down by user-friendly categories like Music Videos, TV Shows, and Extras. Key features include a full-screen video option, superior video and audio quality, and direct links to related games and activities.

Using Brightcove's open API, TVO's Flash developers were able to create a highly customized player experience for tvokids.com, which already features 160 Flash-based games and activities and has been nominated in the Excellence in Children's category for the upcoming 2008 Canadian New Media Awards.

This fall TVO will be rolling out Brightcove's Video Player technology for its adult, prime-time audience in a new, centralized video console on tvo.org.