Comments on: YouTube Partners With TiVo

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:01:29 +0000

*Heavy Sigh*

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:32:31 +0000

$5/month is more than I’m willing to pay to record something. Especially when I can pay once for a VCR or DVD recorder and pay once every few months, if that often, for the blank media to record on. That seems like a better deal to me than $60 a year or more, presumably depending on the service.

By: Vic Holtreman

Vic Holtreman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:25:49 +0000

DVR capability on a satellite box adds about $5/month to your bill and once you use it you’ll never go back.

Vic

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:48:29 +0000

If the 21st Century is going to require me to pay a monthly fee to record my TV shows, I’ll stick with the 20th Century. That and the fact that my VCR still works are the only reasons I’m still using a VCR.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:24:05 +0000

Nooooo…. when the heck did that happen?

I tend to use what I know until it breaks and there are no more. I think an interesting example would be that I just bought my very first mp3 player… man, those are cool!

So there ya have it. I ain’t on the forefront of technology… someday… I might accidentally end up there. But for now, I’m comfortable with the whirrr sound of fast forwarding!!

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:04:00 +0000

Bruce and FlameStrike, you two realize it is the 21st century, right?

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:05:43 +0000

FlameStrike: I have 3 VCR’s in my place… and I too am waiting for the day these don’t adorn some store shelf somewhere.

They’re getting so rare that I was hard pressed to find a cheap one the last time I had to replace one.

I’ve been thinking about the DVR or TiVo route but not sure which is the better way to go.

YouTube has added options for playing hi resolution versions of the video’s online, when they are available in such and that is possibly, in my assumption, will be delivered in hi def by default. (Well, if I were them that is.)

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:27:22 +0000

“What the heck would we do if we didn’t have TiVo or DVR’s.”

Well, as someone who doesn’t have one, I can tell you that I’m still using a VCR. When that inevitably wears out, though, I have no idea. I doubt I’ll be using a DVR, though, because I do not want to have to pay a monthly service fee just to be able to record my shows.

As for Youtube on these things, interesting idea, I suppose, but aren’t the videos going to be a little too grainy on a full sized TV screen?