Comments on: It’s official. Yahoo has bought Meedio.

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:32:46 +0000

I have now fixed the typo. Thanks for mentioning!

By: Mr.Dana B.

Mr.Dana B. — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 01:54:32 +0000

- Letâ€™s hope that Yahoo keeps the plaform open.
What’s a “plaform”?
All websites should have spell checker intergration.
Nice website, easy on the eyes, & a lot of scrolling.

By: Oyvind

Oyvind — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:31:28 +0000

The quality on YouTube in general is worse than the worst VHS I have ever seenâ€¦

Yes, and the quality on even the best mobile phones is still worse than the crappiest film cameras we all used only 5 years ago…

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:48:32 +0000

Yes. There’s a long way to go before the picture quality on YouTube will be good for your 56″ LCD…

And for “The quality will always be better” you can of course say:

WTF! The quality on YouTube in general is worse than the worst VHS I have ever seen…

Personally I currently have more faith in download based systems like Democracy, TVTonic and Akimbo.

By: Trond A

Trond A — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:25:05 +0000

Oyvind: Nothing, but I dont want to have a company logo on each screen on my HTPC . Not even MS got it. I suppose that in an advertbased system it would be natural, but if you can buy Meehoo I would like to have the option to make it look like I want to.

Eirikso: Yes, I agree on that, though you would still be limited to the quality of the videos uploaded by the users though (atleast with the current businessmodel of YouTube)

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:52:39 +0000

Trond A Says:

Online videos from sites like Youtube lacks one important feature: Quality. Mostly the videos arent good enough to be displayed fullscreen on a HTPC I think.

That is correct, but when trying to predict the future of technology there are some very reliable factors that you can always count on. One of them is: “The quality will be better”

When they included cameras in mobile phones the quality was total crap. Still, if you want to predict somethg about where this is going you can count on the fact that the quality will be better.

So will the quality on YouTube and GoogleVideo. Righ now it is not good enough for any big screen living room experience, but it will be. And Yahoo will be there with a platform to present it in your living room.

By: Oyvind

Oyvind — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:43:11 +0000

Hm. Why should Yahoo buy them and NOT put their logo on it?

By: Trond A

Trond A — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:30:31 +0000

Oh, and hopefully you somehow can get Meehoo without the Yahoo logo on each screen….

By: Trond A

Trond A — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:26:49 +0000

Google:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-interactive-tv.html

Online videos from sites like Youtube lacks one important feature: Quality. Mostly the videos arent good enough to be displayed fullscreen on a HTPC I think.