Nothing Holy About This Post
Posted by Chris
Okay, nothing spiritual here, just something that I am totally excited about! TIOTI (otherwise known as Tape It Off The Internet) started out last Fall as a gag, of sorts. Someone threw together this really cool looking website and posted it on Digg.com, a must bookmark for any tech-fans out there. Seems people thought the idea sounded cool, they put the word out for any prospective developers & investors - and lo, and behold, it worked! Development started and now they are looking to go into Beta sometime later this month!
Here's the link: http://www.tioti.com
The concept is an online hub/community where you can keep up with your favorite TV shows - all found & downloaded directly from the Internet, get connected with others who share common show interests, etc. The concept is cool because the technologies have all been there for some time. I've been downloading episodes of some of my favorite TV shows for probably 4-5 years now. It just has never been very user-friendly to be able to find shows & know how to download them.
Bit torrent arrived & rescued the masses - enabling quick downloads via 'bits' of files (in this case TV shows) from multiple people who had the files on their computer. So, I request a show, my torrent program finds anybody who is out there sharing that episode and begins downloading bits & pieces from everyone it finds. The more people who have the show, the faster the download goes. The software pieces the bits together again when it has finished downloading all of them.
TIOTI.com allows you (or will allow you, I should say) to find episodes of your favorite shows, download them and meet others who are Internet TV savvy as well. Not sure how long it will stay up - especially since TV networks are starting to distribute shows on their own via iTunes or other download services. Who knows, they might just get bought out by somebody wanting to make their own forray into Internet T V. In any case, it is an interesting prospect and one that just signals, yet again, that TV as we know it is changing!
Here's the link: http://www.tioti.com
The concept is an online hub/community where you can keep up with your favorite TV shows - all found & downloaded directly from the Internet, get connected with others who share common show interests, etc. The concept is cool because the technologies have all been there for some time. I've been downloading episodes of some of my favorite TV shows for probably 4-5 years now. It just has never been very user-friendly to be able to find shows & know how to download them.
Bit torrent arrived & rescued the masses - enabling quick downloads via 'bits' of files (in this case TV shows) from multiple people who had the files on their computer. So, I request a show, my torrent program finds anybody who is out there sharing that episode and begins downloading bits & pieces from everyone it finds. The more people who have the show, the faster the download goes. The software pieces the bits together again when it has finished downloading all of them.
TIOTI.com allows you (or will allow you, I should say) to find episodes of your favorite shows, download them and meet others who are Internet TV savvy as well. Not sure how long it will stay up - especially since TV networks are starting to distribute shows on their own via iTunes or other download services. Who knows, they might just get bought out by somebody wanting to make their own forray into Internet T V. In any case, it is an interesting prospect and one that just signals, yet again, that TV as we know it is changing!
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