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Here's the $64,000 question of the day: Do people really want to watch made-for-web content on their televisions? It didn't work when NBC picked up the web series "Quarterlife" to air on primetime--they're sending it over to Bravo. But now, TiVo has a new strategy to give consumers what they want, wherever and whenever they want it.
TiVo announced a deal with YouTube to deliver its millions of web videos to your TV. Just like you can record a full season of a network series--I've got "The Office" and "Grey's Anatomy" on my series pass list--now you'll be able to use the same interface to subscribe to shows from YouTube.
It's not just user-generated content, I'm talking about clips from CBS [CBS
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It'll be available later this year to 800,000 of the current 1.7 million TiVo users who bought their box from TiVo, just a half of TiVo's current subscribers.
TiVo's not the first to allow you to watch web video on your HD TV. Apple's [AAPL
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I'll check it out on my TiVo when I can click on over to new video feeds, but I'm still wondering if made for web content is as appealing as the higher production stuff made just for the tube. Especially on the new flat screens, the higher quality stuff looks just so much better.
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