TiVo plans to let users find and w
atch YouTube videos on their television sets later this year. The service will be available for customers with broadband-connected Series3 and TiVo HD boxes. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the lack of Series2 support means two things:
- TiVo isn't really focusing on Series2 development much anymore
- TiVo may be waiting for YouTube to officially roll out higher resolution videos before launching the service.
Anyone who's ever hooked up a computer to a TV set and tried to watch YouTube videos can tell you that they tend to look pretty crappy. While low resolution video might be good enough for a small window in your web browser, when you blow that same video up on a 27 inch or larger screen, it just looks like bunch of pixels. If TiVo plans to roll out YouTube video support on its HD-capable boxes, I can't imagine they'll want to do so before YouTube upgrades its video player.
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3-12-2008 @ 1:07PM
MegaZone said...
Actually I think it is really related to one thing - the S3/TiVo HD have hardware that can decode H.264, the Series2 does not. Simple as that.
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