  hopeflickerCapitalism breeds greed
Premium Member
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? | |
|
 |  quetwoThat VoIP Guy
Premium Member
join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI |
quetwo
Premium Member
2008-Mar-15 2:27 pm
Re: Hummm...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. | |
|
| | hopeflickerCapitalism breeds greed
Premium Member
join:2003-04-03
Long Beach, CA
2 edits |
Re: Hummm... | |
|
| | macaholic
Premium Member
join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY |
to quetwo
My apple TV has had this for a while... Its starting to grow on me... | |
|
| | |  dadkinsCan you do Blu?
MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA |
Re: Hummm...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!  | |
|
|  Cabal
Premium Member
join:2007-01-21 |
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. | |
|
|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium Member
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
1 recommendation |
to hopeflicker
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 * | |
|
gaforces (banned)United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
1 recommendation |
gaforces (banned)
Member
2008-Mar-15 2:48 pm
Don't like YouTube90% 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. | |
|
|
1 recommendation |
Meh37
Anon
2008-Mar-15 3:06 pm
Re: Don't like YouTubeI'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!) | |
|
| | |
to gaforces
Stuttering on YouTube is not normal. I'd blame your ISP for that. But one thing you can do to even it out is to press pause just after you start, and let it buffer for a while before resuming play. (You can even buffer the whole thing if necessary.)
The video quality is variable, and many clips are very well worth watching. | |
|
| | gaforces (banned)United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA |
gaforces (banned)
Member
2008-Mar-17 12:19 pm
Re: Don't like YouTubesaid by wmcbrine:Stuttering on YouTube is not normal. I'd blame your ISP for that. But one thing you can do to even it out is to press pause just after you start, and let it buffer for a while before resuming play. (You can even buffer the whole thing if necessary.) The video quality is variable, and many clips are very well worth watching. If it's my ISP why is it that I can stream very well from other sites? I tried buffering, it doesn't help. Even if they have clips that are worth watching, what I have seen are grainy, crud lighting, and usually shaky cam clips. Some of my friends have put video on YT, and trying to watch them has been a lesson in frustration and embarrasment. | |
|
| | | | |
Re: Don't like YouTubeWell, I can only tell you that I don't have any such problem. And if all you're seeing is "shaky cam clips", then you're looking at the wrong stuff. That doesn't fit my YouTube experience, either. | |
|
| |
I love my TivoI have no interest in You Tube myself, but I do LOVE my Tivo! | |
|
| bshelly
Premium Member
join:2002-02-17
Conover, NC |
bshelly
Premium Member
2008-Mar-15 3:19 pm
Re: I love my TivoDoes 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? | |
|
| | | |
Re: I love my TivoThis is for series 3s and HDs, not earlier units. | |
|
| | | bshelly
Premium Member
join:2002-02-17
Conover, NC |
bshelly
Premium Member
2008-Mar-15 8:19 pm
Re: I love my Tivosaid 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. | |
|
| | | | | |
Re: I love my TivoYou 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. | |
|
| | |  ifarrell
join:2000-08-10
Willow Spring, NC |
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? | |
|
| | | | | |
Re: I love my TivoAll of the details have not been released but if the Apple TV implementation is to be believed then a similar re-encoding may be in the works.
I agree that most of YouTube is crap. | |
|
| | | |
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. | |
|
| | |
to Techie714
On the other hand, I'd love to get hulu content on my TiVo, especially when they start going hi-def. | |
|
| |  NJxxxJon2 0 1 7 Mmm Here We go man!
Premium Member
join:2005-10-22 |
NJxxxJon
Premium Member
2008-Mar-15 6:26 pm
Re: I love my Tivosaid 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. | |
|
TheMG
Premium Member
join:2007-09-04
Canada
1 recommendation |
TheMG
Premium Member
2008-Mar-15 7:38 pm
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!!!! | |
|
| |
hehWill localities sue Youtube until they get franchise agreements? | |
|
 TechnogeezAgape in amazement.
Premium Member
join:2007-01-20 |
Wii already watch it on TVI can do the same thing on our Wii... | |
|
|  ThespisI'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.
Premium Member
join:2004-08-03
Keller, TX |
Thespis
Premium Member
2008-Mar-16 2:11 pm
Re: Wii already watch it on TVI can do it with XBox media center as well... | |
|
 Packeteers
Premium Member
join:2005-06-18
Forest Hills, NY
(Software) Asuswrt-Merlin
|
youtube looks like crapwhy would anyone low res youtube crap on their TV?
i could understand streaming HiRes Stage6 content,
(before the bastards shut them down), but why would
I want to watch youtube on anything more than my
already crappy cell phone screen? I think TiVo is
using this as a marketing gimmick, nothing else. | |
|
|
|
