YouTube getting TV shot from TiVo - The Los Angeles Times
Website visitors will have another way to view the videos.
YouTube, not happy to be just an Internet site, is expanding to the medium it has helped undermine — the boob tube.
On Wednesday, TiVo Inc., the digital video recorder maker, announced that its customers would be able to watch YouTube videos on their TVs using one model of TiVo’s set-top box sometime this year.
Over the last year, it has been possible to watch YouTube videos on the television through other devices, such as Apple Inc.’s Apple TV.
But TiVo, which has more than 4 million subscribers, could make YouTube a television star.
YouTube has been a thorn in the side of traditional media ever since the video sharing website was created in 2005. Now owned by Google Inc., YouTube has faced criticism and legal trouble that it benefited from visitors copying TV shows and putting them on the site.
YouTube has also hastened the fracturing of how people, especially teenagers, get their entertainment, with many turning on their computers instead of TVs.
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