[mythtv] Implications of the new youtube API

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Mar 14 17:43:07 UTC 2008


On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 03/14/2008 01:32 PM, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>> If you don't have enough bandwidth for watching YouTube video, then
>> you shouldn't be surfing the net.  There are flash ads out there  
>> bigger
>> than some of those videos.
>
> No joke.  What does a YouTube video look like scaled to 1920x1080 on a
> large-screen TV, anyway?  TiVo made a huge deal about their new boxes
> supporting YouTube, but I just don't get the appeal.
>
> Mike

The only reason I run firefox on my myth frontend is to watch YouTube  
videos. When there's nothing else to watch on TV, my family likes to  
surf YouTube and watch stuff there together. If there was MythTV  
integration with it, we would watch it much more often - probably even  
more than TV. 


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