hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA | Hummm...
Many PVR (personal video recorders) already have this feature.
Is Tivo watching these other free/low cost PVR developers?
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quetwo
That VoIP Guy
Premium
join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI | Which PVRs already have this feature? The ones I'm seeing from the large sattelite and cable companies don't have anything close to this. |
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hopeflicker
Capitalism breeds greed
Premium
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
2 edits | MYTHTV:
»www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m···s/300192
and I **THINK** Mediaportal has it:
»www.team-mediaportal.com/
GBPVR:
www.gbpvr.com
»gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Skin···/Sassari
Here's a list of others that may offer the youtube plugin:
»www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=1390
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Cabal
Premium
join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
| reply to hopeflicker
Chances are good they're looking at the feature sets of consoles with integrated browsers and Flash (and potentially tuners going forward) as competition.
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
| Don't like YouTube
90% of the time I try and watch a video on YT it starts, stutters, freezes and then goes through the same loop. The video quality sucks, and most of the shaky cam video's aren't worth watching.
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macaholic
Premium
join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY | reply to quetwo
Re: Hummm...
My apple TV has had this for a while... Its starting to grow on me... |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| said by macaholic  :My apple TV has had this for a while... Its starting to grow on me... My VAIOs have had this for... years! 
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Meh37
@verizon.net
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gaforces
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Re: Don't like YouTube
I've never gone to YouTube on purpose. I'm sure there's some good stuff there; I encounter links to YouTube on useful sites that I visit--seems like a dead-simple way to "distribute" how-to and other video content, but since I'd need a computer to really find my way there for such a purpose, being able to watch tons of videos of questionable worth on my TV doesn't really thrill me. (However, you can't be too rich, too thin, or have too many features... well, unless you "bloat-up"--good luck, TiVo... hope you don't break anything else while adding this.)
(More importantly, 8-track's were OK; they just stopped development because something cheaper came along that was easier to work with and improve. Ahhh, the good ole days!) |
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Techie714
join:2005-08-02
Anaheim, CA | I love my Tivo
I have no interest in You Tube myself, but I do LOVE my Tivo! |
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bshelly
Premium
join:2002-02-17
Schaumburg, IL
clubs:
 ·VOIPo
·AT&T CallVantage
| Does YouTube keep the full quality uploads of the videos so they can go back and re-encode all of the vids later as the codecs improve?
The shaky or high motion videos on YouTube suck due to them being .flv's and the horribly low bit rate they use. Even then, my CPU fan on my laptop cranks really high when watching YouTube vids. Can Series 2 Tivo's handle the CPU load? |
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Meh37
@verizon.net | reply to Techie714
On the other hand, I'd love to get hulu content on my TiVo, especially when they start going hi-def. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to bshelly
This is for series 3s and HDs, not earlier units.
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NJxxxJon
something good. or your mom.
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join:2005-10-22
00000
| reply to Meh37
said by Meh37 :
On the other hand, I'd love to get hulu content on my TiVo, especially when they start going hi-def.
hulu rocks.
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davemau
join:2004-06-21
Orlando, FL
| reply to bshelly
said by bshelly :Does YouTube keep the full quality uploads of the videos so they can go back and re-encode all of the vids later as the codecs improve? The shaky or high motion videos on YouTube suck due to them being .flv's and the horribly low bit rate they use. Even then, my CPU fan on my laptop cranks really high when watching YouTube vids. Can Series 2 Tivo's handle the CPU load? I would think they do because they re-encoded their entire library to h.264 for apple and the iphone/ipod touch since neither device has flash. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to hopeflicker
Re: Hummm...
said by hopeflicker :Many PVR (personal video recorders) already have this feature. Is Tivo watching these other free/low cost PVR developers? They already know what they're charging per month after spending hundreds on the box is simply ripping off their customers so they're throwing in some fluff. * y a w n *
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TheMG
join:2007-09-04
Edmonton, AB | Seriously...
YouTube quality already looks like crap in the small flash player, I don't even want to know what it looks like full screen on an HDTV!!!! |
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bshelly
Premium
join:2002-02-17
Schaumburg, IL
clubs:
·VOIPo
·AT&T CallVantage
| reply to RadioDoc
Re: I love my Tivo
said by RadioDoc :This is for series 3s and HDs, not earlier units. Ah, ok. Darn! Well, I doubt I will be getting a Series 3 as my Sony Series 1 TiVo and two Series 2's are working just fine for the moment. Though HD would be nice on my 47" Vizio LCD HDTV. The only thing that burns me is that the last time I checked, TiVo now charges full price for add-on boxes. |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
| You can still get the multi-service discount on additional boxes for $9.95 a month or $99 per year.
I've got a series 3 HD hooked up to my 42" Toshiba LCD and an OTA antenna and it's amazingly good. Beats the snot out of what Comcast tries to pass off as HD here.
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ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC
·Vonage
| reply to RadioDoc
said by RadioDoc :This is for series 3s and HDs, not earlier units. But why? Most You Tube Videos look crap on a small computer display.
Imagine how much worse it's going to look on a 50" Plasma display? |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | heh
Will localities sue Youtube until they get franchise agreements? |
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