Yahoo! Go for TV is a downloadable video recording software that works with your TV tuner card and creates a Media Center-alike experience on almost any PC. It came out a few months ago, but now they’ve added Flickr integration, picture-in-picture functionality, movie recommendations, and local network music streaming.
The service is obviously free and probably one of the few ideas in this whole Web 2.0/post-content/advertorial world. Essentially, this gives Yahoo! a captive audience - unfortunately only folks with TV tuners really need apply because the rest of the functionality is a bit underwhelming - and puts Microsoft in the awkward position of having to make a good Media Center product.
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Yahoo! Go for TV puts more Yahoo! properties on your TV
I have been looking for this type of functionality for years. The Media Center was a great idea, but the required overhead in software and hardware made it difficult to justify.
Yahoo has been doing such a good job at supplying content, it’s great that they are finally crossing over to the broadcast media area.