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thiggins   06-01-2006 at 10:07:57 PM

Benjamin Webb checks out Yahoo's Go TV beta - and wonders why Yahoo seems to be trying to waste the money it spent purchasing Meedio.

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thiggins   06-01-2006 at 10:25:54 PM
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Posting this reader comment:

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"I do not understand the limitation of one folder for videos, one for photos, one for music, which seems unnecessarily inflexible Most of my content is spread out among multiple folders to keep my sanity when I'm trying to find things."

Normally, I would not give feedback but I found it strange, like you, that this feature was not used into a software with a long history(Meedio, MyHTPC).

Our own product "MIS Info Video" (www.mcgrathinfosolution.com) do just that. When first installed, you must give a list of folder in the default profile so that it will find the audio and video files(no pictures for now). Granted, MIV is not a full fledge Media Center software but it does the job it's required.

At home, I have a network with media files on 2 computers(HTPC, server) plus 2 clients station. In a profile, folders can be added or not depending on the user age or the content of the media in a folder ...

Like I said before, it should had been in there considering it's origin. Maybe in the next beta

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sledgehammer70   06-05-2006 at 06:27:51 PM
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Benjamin Webb checks out Yahoo's Go TV beta - and wonders why Yahoo seems to be trying to waste the money it spent purchasing Meedio.



Sorry I have to say this, but that review sucked. For the most part the product you reviewed was a BETA. I am not a fan of Yahoo items either but the review in general was pretty Bias towards Yahoo. I guess only time will tell what they do with it.

To note you seemed to pick on the folder layout. For the most part most people will not put videos and music in new folders. They will lump them all together. As you and I both like complete organization with names and labels all over, the pure fact that most people are to lazy to go through the effort to create 100 folders is the main point. Most people just don't care.

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brw02005   06-06-2006 at 01:29:45 AM
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Yeah I may have been a little hard on this program. But if you used it you would understand. They had a fully functional program and now they don't. I would have been much easier on their beta had they built it from scratch but they bought out one of the top HTPC software packages.

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bestofcomputer   06-06-2006 at 09:56:03 AM
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Yeah now after that article in thg i cannot help but think twice about yahoo : are they bad guys ?
because before i loved 3 great things from yahoo and tell me if i am wrong :
- yahoo mail is the best isnt it, or gmail will ship in a final version much better ?
- yahoo groups is the only mailgroups of quality on the web, apart when yahoo decided to delete all previous attachements from it a few years back, and it provoqued anger and birth of alternatives groups (by the way do you remember which groups were they and how are they doing ?) or am i wrong again and there is better and where ?
- yahoo music and its free lauchcast player is the best internet radio, but only if you have IE and MP9 and a broadband, and most of all, if you have spent 3 months by ratings 20000 songs on their huge catalog, to build your own radio at your own taste that will deliver to you your prefered music 80% of the time, but with ads of course, or am i wrong again and there is better than that, but dont tell me to biy my ipod to carry my music, i am against ipods and such !
Thanks.
Bye.

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