DVR Chatter

Frank · 07-17-2008 8:07:21 AM

Beginning today, TiVoHD and Series3 owners will gain the ability to stream and watch YouTube videos on their televisions via their TiVo DVR.

YouTube, though, is expected to quickly outdo [all of TiVo's content partners like Amazon Unbox]. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, YouTube attracted 68 million unique users in May who streamed 3.8 billion videos, making it by far the most popular video brand on the Internet. Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, was second with 18 million unique users and 328 million video streams.

"Will there be a time when people turn on their TV sets and watch YouTube videos instead of TV shows? Time will tell," Maitra said.

Not in big numbers anytime soon, though, because while TiVo has 3.8 million subscribers, only about a fifth of them have the necessary equipment -- a TiVo Series 3 or TiVo HD -- for grabbing YouTube content and displaying it on TV screens.

Georgia Guy · 07-17-2008 8:49:02 AM

I guess some people will really like that feature. Personally, "watching" YouTube seems like something for short-attention-span people with too much time on their hands.

I'll click on YouTube links when someone sends me one, or there is a link somewhere to something that is pertinent to whatever I happen to be reading about (for instance, such links on this message board). They are often funny or enlightening.

But, for just sitting down and browsing through all that stuff for entertainment's sake, I just don't have any interest in doing that. Guess I'm just too much of an old fart to "get it".

Frank · 07-17-2008 8:58:15 AM

Now that Big Brother is back, most relevant clips from the live feeds get posted almost immediately to YouTube. That's a plus for me.

There are also a plethora of rare music performances and videos there, and clips from big concerts.

I'm not a fan of the "my cat playing with yarn" aspect of YouTube, but I find myself there often for those kind of things as well as the citizen journalism type stuff that winds up there.

DVR Chatter

#1 07-17-2008 8:07:21 AM

TiVo YouTube Integration Launches Today

#2 07-17-2008 8:49:02 AM

Re: TiVo YouTube Integration Launches Today

#3 07-17-2008 8:58:15 AM

Re: TiVo YouTube Integration Launches Today

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