Tuesday, May 06, 2008

YouTube Picked Up by HP

Hewlett-Packard has followed TiVo in promising to make YouTube videos available on media centers that display video on TVs.

HP like Microsoft, Intel and other PC companies see the living room as the natural extension of web content, but little progress has been made in more than a decade. Web videos need to be TV-accessible to go mainstream, and finally companies like Veoh, TiVo, and Sling Media are acting on the opportunity.

YouTube will soon face a major challenge if it wants to play in the home entertainment space: increasing the quality of its video. TV viewers expect higher quality, but if YouTube upgrades its platform, that means a whole lot more storage and bandwidth.


Via New TeeVee.

Posted By John Gartner at 12:23 PM
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