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Music is another beast; I'm focusing on video in my rant. Right now on (e.g.) a Roku, the process of finding a specific show to watch consists of opening severa
by baggachipz 13y ago
Music is another beast; I'm focusing on video in my rant. Right now on (e.g.) a Roku, the process of finding a specific show to watch consists of opening several apps: check Netflix... Not there? Check Hulu... Not there? check YouTube. Not there? check NBC.com. Not there? check other stations' content sites. Not there? Check local storage. Not there? Check NAS. All I want is something to organize this into one DVR-like list. It can start the various necessary apps for viewing (not ideal, but I understand their commercial interest to keep their properties siloed). I am just sick of having to dig through every individual source to watch what I want. Furthermore, a good application would keep tabs on release date and watched status for me, like you'd expect from a DVR.
- Pxtl 13y agoThat was the intent of Boxee, although it didn't really do it very well.
- baggachipz 13y agoWhich was really just a skin on XBMC. It had the right idea, too bad so sad.
- laumars 13y agoYeah I did misunderstand you. Sorry :) What you're describing isn't really a feature I personally want (just having random YouTube results mixed in with offline content would annoy me), however I can totally understand why it would be preferable for many other people. > Furthermore, a good application would keep tabs on release date and watched status for me, like you'd expect from a DVR. To be fair, XBMC does do that.
- pizza 13y agoTo nitpick: on the Roku, all you have to do to search across all your installed channels is just use the search app. Also there's no official Youtube channel, as far as I know. But I get what you're getting at.