2008 Woodie Awards
Broadening the home-video outlet
YouTube videos will soon be accessible through TV
Adam Tzanias
Issue date: 3/25/08 Section: Mosaic
YouTube is notorious for its obscure videos ranging in everything from drunken college kids and singing cats to "Two Girls, One Cup" reaction videos. Now those same videos that have given even the biggest idiots and dumbest guidos their 15 minutes of fame are available on the big screen.
In a Wednesday press release from TiVo, the company announced that by year's end, its subscribers will be able to search, browse and watch YouTube videos directly from their television sets.
According to the press release, YouTube is attempting to move beyond the Web, extending its service past the 66 million viewers it has already due to its availability on cell phones and Apple TV, a box that streams video from computers to the television.
Now, TiVo users with a broadband Internet connection and TiVo Series3 box will be able to access the popular online video provider from their television. By using TiVo's digital-recording-service DVR, subscribers can select a video from the Web and record it for playback on their TVs.
Subscribers will be able to use TiVo's convenient and familiar user interface to watch, share and discuss the world's most popular online videos and even log in to their accounts directly from their TiVo boxes and access their favorite YouTube playlists and channels.
In a recent press release, Tara Maitra, vice president and general manager of content services at TiVo Inc., states her company is enthusiastic to work with YouTube and thinks it's a new step in the advancement of technology.
"We're delighted to be working with the world's leading online-video community so that TiVo subscribers can access YouTube's popular content on the TV via the TiVo DVR," states Maitra. "Being able to make available YouTube videos to the TiVo subscriber base using one device, one remote and one user interface is another major step in our commitment to combine all of your television and Web video viewing options in one easy to use service."
In a Wednesday press release from TiVo, the company announced that by year's end, its subscribers will be able to search, browse and watch YouTube videos directly from their television sets.
According to the press release, YouTube is attempting to move beyond the Web, extending its service past the 66 million viewers it has already due to its availability on cell phones and Apple TV, a box that streams video from computers to the television.
Now, TiVo users with a broadband Internet connection and TiVo Series3 box will be able to access the popular online video provider from their television. By using TiVo's digital-recording-service DVR, subscribers can select a video from the Web and record it for playback on their TVs.
Subscribers will be able to use TiVo's convenient and familiar user interface to watch, share and discuss the world's most popular online videos and even log in to their accounts directly from their TiVo boxes and access their favorite YouTube playlists and channels.
In a recent press release, Tara Maitra, vice president and general manager of content services at TiVo Inc., states her company is enthusiastic to work with YouTube and thinks it's a new step in the advancement of technology.
"We're delighted to be working with the world's leading online-video community so that TiVo subscribers can access YouTube's popular content on the TV via the TiVo DVR," states Maitra. "Being able to make available YouTube videos to the TiVo subscriber base using one device, one remote and one user interface is another major step in our commitment to combine all of your television and Web video viewing options in one easy to use service."
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Adam Tzanis
posted 10/11/08 @ 3:14 PM EST
My last name is spelled Tzanis, thanks.
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