article on Yahoo entry into the DVR market

[tivoknucklehead]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/27/is_yahoo_competing_with_tivo/


seems like it only applies to PC TV tuner cards though

[ZeoTiVo]

Using one of five supported name-brand TV tuner cards, including ATI's TV Wonder Elite and HDTV Wonder, and Nvidia's Dual TVmce, a user of Yahoo's new Go for TV Beta service can utilize the listing service to program her PC to record video from the card, onto her local hard drive. The video source isn't the Internet, of course, but the cable service, or even a simple coaxial lead from an aerial antenna. The equipment, therefore, is entirely customer-owned, and the service is pre-existing.

are they seriously touting this as a big thing ? I was recording from guide data onto my PC in the 90s. This is the biggest hype of nothing I have seen lately.

Now HTPCs are getting constantly better/beefier but that is a different thread/debate from this press reelase saying
Although Yahoo Go for TV is a project from a different division of the company, it's possible that Yahoo believes it may have hit on a new and lucrative strategy: changing the parameters of a media market typically based on a "closed circuit," utility-oriented revenue model, into a low-cost, open market approach with an advertising-based revenue model.

umm it is still a closed circuit of needing a monthly cost broadcast provider and anyone could certainly use an HTPC without needing a yahoo front end. This is just to pick off people who bought a PC recently and discovered media center without knowing they were buying it but think Yahoo is easier to use

[atmuscarella]

I don't really see this as effecting TiVo much - its basically a free front end for a media center pc with a tuner card. My guess is the number of people choosing to use a media PC as their DVR instead of TiVo will not change because of Yahoo's free front end software.

But I do see this as important for Yahoo, they want people using media PCs to be using Yahoo services not Microsoft services and this is one way to do it.

Thanks,

atmuscarella

[Ghost_Dog1]

MyYahoo T.V. Listings will do Tivo Scheduling I see.

[MickeS]

Ghost_Dog1, it already does. I use it often.

Yeah, talk about hype about nothing. Wow, record TV on your PC! :D :D :D