Will Yahoo! Go Be the Next Media Bridge? 70
wh0pper writes "Digital Trend has an interesting take on Yahoo! Go. With Yahoo's acquisition of Meedio, Yahoo! Go will be in the position to be everyones media bridge. With Yahoo!'s intended arrival in the TV environment, it aspires to become the user's guide to all media." From the article: "This would appear to be the worst of nightmares for traditional PayTV operators. Suddenly, they become part of a Yahoo!-defined walled garden of sorts, hidden behind the Yahoo!-branded user interface and reduced to a simple pipe that delivers broadcast television. Without their own proprietary IPG being used, how can they sell pay-per-view and VOD movies?"
Yahoo copying again... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yahoo copying again... (Score:2, Insightful)
It's only their worse nightmare because all they have is nightmares. "Two left feet and ugly shoes" is where the entertainment industry is at right now!
Wake up media industry folks, we don't want your dead business model! Frankly, if Yahoo! is their second worst nightmare, then that's a pretty good start from where I'm sitting. More power to Yahoo! on this one!
Re:Yahoo copying again... (Score:2)
Re:Yahoo copying again... (Score:1)
Re:Yahoo copying again... (Score:1)
I've also had zero problems with their messenger, but it's been a while since I've used it. Now I use gaim or trillian to conserve taskbar real-estate
Re:The real question is this: (Score:3, Funny)
OMG OMG PONIES!!! i'M AN VULTURE FUNDING GUY and OMG this is teh GREAT and OMG I want to throw cash! PLS tell me where to throw the CA$H!
Re:The real question is this: (Score:1)
Re:The real question is this: (Score:1)
Yes it is a cut/paste, but not from TFA, rather from the poster that I replied to. For some reason he got modded down. Beats me, I'd have modded him "+1 funneh" myself!
It's not that great (Score:2, Informative)
Re:It's not that great (Score:2)
You are absolutely right. I have tried meedio in the past and wasnt impressed. I ended up uninstalling it in a couple of days. I finally settled with http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ [team-mediaportal.com] which is much better in terms of usabilty and features. Also it is opensource
Re:It's not that great (Score:2)
Re:It's not that great (Score:1)
Re:It's not that great (Score:1)
This is everything!!! (Score:1)
No seriously, from their website (yahoo go! that is), it seems that this is a piece of software that will turn you computer into a dvr and act as a google desktop search sidebar and allow your mobile phone to access media files at yahoo
I don't know if this will take off but it seems like an ok idea
Some caveats though, no support for linux or Mac, and it's probably loaded with DRM.
Or nothing, rather (Score:2, Informative)
"it seems that this is a piece of software that will turn you computer into a dvr"
I don't see this on their website, rather, I see instructions on how to connect your computer to your TV so that you can view media on your TV. Anyone with the right video card, TV, and a cable long enough to reach both can do this anyway without installing Yahoo! Go.
"and act as a google desktop search sidebar"
The most important feature in Google Desktop is
It's beta software (Re:Or nothing, rather) (Score:2)
Which web page were you looking at? Their Yahoo! Go for TV Beta [yahoo.com] web page has four very visible icons/links: Photos, Video, Music, and DVR [yahoo.com]. When I moused over the DVR icon/link I got:
Re:It's beta software (Score:1)
It's a real shame Apple didn't give the space/time/cents to pack something like this in with Mac Mini's FrontRow, Out Of Box DVR would have been a real
Re:I've heard this before. (Score:1)
Not a bridge (Score:2, Interesting)
This isn't a bridge, it's a landfill! If I had all these wonderful pieces of technology, I'd already be able to use them together without needing Yahoo! Go.
Re:Not a bridge (Score:2)
The TV portion of Yahoo! go looks to me to be a free (lower case 'f') alternative to Windows XP MCE. I don't think the idea is for people to think "Hey, that looks like a neat tool, I'll download it and play with it." It's for people who are somewhat serious about starting a media center PC but don't want to spend money on a new system (and you can't buy MCE without hardware because of Microsoft's licensing). I don't get the impres
It's not free by the time you've started! (Score:1)
I began using Yahoo! Widget Engine pretty soon after the company bought it from Konfabulator and
Re:It's not free by the time you've started! (Score:2)
Re:Not a bridge (Score:1)
Seeing as I had Meedio before it was taken by Yahoo and beaten into submission, I would like to comment on how it has changed and why it's useless. First, I preface all this by saying it is still labeled beta and unless they stripped out the customization code (which I highly doubt), it may
It's aimed at people who already have it? (Score:1)
Really? The website seems to go to some lengths explain that the user will need to install a $120 TV tuner card to access the DVR functionality you're saying they already have. What's more, further proving my point, it only supports 5 different cards. Of course, if it's only aimed at people who already have one of those 5 cards...
New! Free! This software tu
Re:It's aimed at people who already have it? (Score:1)
Re:It's aimed at people who already have it? (Score:1)
You say:
Contrary to your provocative comment, Yahoo says:
One pretty
How long before they become a label. (Score:5, Interesting)
It makes sense if you ask me, plus it would give them leverage over the industry.
Re:How long before they become a label. (Score:2)
At the moment all the record labels are in a cartel so they're (essentially) free to fix prices and treat artists like dirt.
Re:How long before they become a label. (Score:1)
Re:How long before they become a label. (Score:1)
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(PROTIP: The above was a joke)
Why assume the risk? (Score:2)
In a sense, they already are - there are already a bunch of self funded artists available on iTunes, Napster, etc. One of my buddies is available on virtually every electronic download/streaming service. I think his most recent count was around $12 after over a year.
The artists selling thousands of tracks are virtually all recorded and marketed at great expense. The public (and the money) fol
Microsoft and XBOX??? (Score:1)
Plus, I'm not convinced it's that far from their core compentency (and I'm trying REALLY hard not to make any jokes about Microsoft, OS/Office and compentency - so bear wit
Re:Microsoft and XBOX??? (Score:2)
That's not the point. As I said, MS has money to burn if they want to. The point is that they were a non-entity in the console world and now they're one of the top players.
I would hardly call combining all that with a bit of hardware from established vendors much outside Microsoft's core compentency.
Microsoft has made a lot of money by on Windows and Office. That's a very different world than video game cons
Every facet of our lives? (Score:3, Funny)
However, this is the first time a system operator (be it a virtual one) has attempted to embrace their users in every facet of their lives.
if (TV == every_facet_of_our_lives) we_are_fucked();
Re:Every facet of our lives? (Score:1)
Re:Every facet of our lives? (Score:1)
That's the wonderful thing about the word fuck [wikipedia.org]. It can be used as a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, or interjection!
Re:Every facet of our lives? (Score:1)
ps. sorry its python i cant remember how to do it in c
Law coming in 3, 2, 1... (Score:4, Interesting)
I bet my rear that as soon as it cuts into their sales and ad income, we'll see heavy lobbying towards some regulation.
*sigh* What happened to good ol' capitalism? Regulations and legal red tape springing up everywhere to protect outdated and obsolete markets. I sometimes wonder if communism finally won.
Re:Law coming in 3, 2, 1... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Theory and reality (Score:2)
Debt isn't necessarily something you can avoid. Sure, my pity is very limited with people who buy every kind of junk without care and running so deeply into the debt mine that they can't find a way out again. But there are actually a lot of people, and their number is growing, who cannot even earn enough money to sustain themselves.
Bills of about 500 bucks break people's necks because they can't even sc
Re:Theory and reality (Score:2)
Build a house. Go ahead and dare. Yeah, you have a job. Well, you're just a normal worker at a normal corporation, nothing spectacular, but you can afford the mortgage.
Now you don't have a job. It's been shipped over to India. You, though, aren't. The problem is, your mortgage doesn't go to India. It stays with you. Now what? No, you don't find a job. Or, we
Here today, gone tomorrow. (Score:2)
It used to be that these moves had
Its all well and good, but when can I drop cable? (Score:5, Interesting)
iTunes sells a few shows. Yahoo may be doing something. NBC, ABC, and CBS are making some shows available. The quality, picture limitations, speed, and pain in the ass are all still prohibitive for this being workable. iTunes at two bucks a show is at least twice the price it should be, and the other avenues still basically stink.
When I can just buy my network pipe for connectivity and shop for my own content providers for video, music, phone, and whatever else....then I'll be happy.
Re:Its all well and good, but when can I drop cabl (Score:1)
Media Bridges? (Score:1)
Yahoo7.com.au (Score:1)
Farewell, myHTPC... er, Meedio. (Score:3, Insightful)
Then came Meedio, which we had to pay for (and I did, gladly) but reduced the clunk-factor by (let's pick an arbitrary fraction) 2/3 and did a much better job of playing nice with the remote control hardware available to me at the time, namely the aforementioned Remote Wonder as well as Creative's LiveDrive IR remote.
Over the weekend, on a whim, I selected "Check for updates" and, hello? "A new update is available. Visit www.meedio.com to download." Righto! And yet... no. Yes, there's a 1.41 release. No, you can't have it (from regular channels, anyway; thank the gods for Google, natch). Now it's Yahoo! Go, a slick, useless lump based on a fair portion of Meedio's code but without any of the configuration capability (short of hand-editing the XML, which... um, no?) and, by the way, no apparent support for reading tags in music files. But hey, it's free!
I won't say "I want my thirty-five bucks back," 'cause I don't, and I'm generally pleased with my Meedio experience. I am, however, deeply chagrined that things have taken a turn for the blah.
Oh, by the way: If your current Meedio version reads Ogg Vorbis tags correctly, DON'T hunt down the 1.41 upgrade. Updating broke Vorbis tag reading on my system...
Lemme get this straight. (Score:2)
head hurts............
No, no, use the proper punctuation! (Score:2, Funny)
Will! Yahoo! Go! Be! the! Next! Media! Bridge?!
And The Answer Is... (Score:1)
Disintermediate (Score:2)
"we want to be the replacement intermediate" is a businessplan destined for failure.
Short answer? (Score:1)
The "Next Media Bridge" will be an ever morphing compendium of little bridgelets - producers of content serving it directly to their audience. Zero hour feedback, high-touch, closer audience relationship is all going to come into play here, and having a Big Neon Brand playing matchmaker will become a drag in time.
Next...!
Red Hot Poker (Score:1)
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IPG? (Score:2)
WTF is IPG?
IIRC TFA was liek ICTYBTIHTKY. BTW & FYI SOP I ReRTFA JIC PEBKAC (AKA ADD). AFAICS TFA is SNAFU N/T SOL. OMGWTFBBQ is IPG?? FWIW my SWAG it's RE: guide? Linky TLA FAQ || HHGTTG W/answer ASAP. TIA.
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