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    On-Demand TV Requests

    The OnDemand feature is a definite bonus to the Vudu box and truly adds value (seriously, I'd buy a Vudu box for $100 if that's all does is play podcasts). I just have some questions about its future.
    • Will we be able to add our RSS feeds of our liking? It would be awesome if Vudu could become my replacement for Miro. If not, could a forum be opened to suggest new feeds? For instance, one of my favorite video podcasts is "Pro At Cooking" (http://www.proatcooking.com). Its RSS feed is at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/patc. I also like a lot of the other TED talks not available.
    • Would more than 15 podcasts be available per feed? There are lot of older episodes of SYSTM that I just can't watch on the box.
    • Could we queue/download feeds to watch later? Again, functionality like Miro. Not all feeds are up to par with watching in real time as far as bandwidth is concerned, so I'm assuming they're not cached and the content is coming straight from the podcast servers. A lot of podcasts come out often enough that people are going to watch them on a daily/weekly basis.
    • What if popular feeds were seeded? Most users won't realize why their favorite OnDemand feed isn't "on demand". I was thinking that some podcasters would rather people download directly for stats, but a lot of them actually prefer people using torrents because it costs them less to host. This would require a good amount of users to be worth the trouble, or possibly just the users "subscribed" would seed the podcasts they are subscribed to.
    • What if popular feeds were cached? Same concept as seeding, except a little more centralized and would require less users. Possibly lower quality previews could be cached, or even just the first minute of the podcast to give it more time to buffer straight from their server. It's crazy idea and probably will be too complex to be practical, but I'm throwing it out there.
    • Sync OnDemand with iPod? This is an off-the-wall idea, but what about a feature off to the side to pull iPod quality stuff and dump it onto the device when an iPod is plugged in?
    What do you think of these ideas? Do you hate them, like them?
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    Re: On-Demand TV Requests

    Originally posted by Xtoff View Post
    Will we be able to add our RSS feeds of our liking?
    It would be great to setup our own RSS feeds. As long as the video format is compatible.

    Originally posted by Xtoff View Post
    Could we queue/download feeds to watch later?
    I also would like to see check boxes to queue up one video after another. I think this one has been requested by other VUDU fans. This is a question of copyrights on the video content. Look at hulu...you can't legally make copies even for cache purposes except for what their player supports.

    Originally posted by Xtoff View Post
    What if popular feeds were seeded?
    What if popular feeds were cached?
    Don't go there...you can run into license and copyright issue here. Since VUDU doesn't have copyrights on this type of content it could be an issue to cache and seeded.

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      Re: On-Demand TV Requests

      Remember we're talking about podcasts from RSS feeds. As far as legality is concerned, these videos are free to distribute and cache, and is highly recommended to seed (no, torrents aren't always illegal). The producers make money off of commercials in the video. Hulu is a completely different subject and is not related to RSS feed content whatsoever. If there is in fact a legality issue, I'd like to see some fine writing before any ideas are dismissed. Thank you as I really appreciate your criticism on the issue. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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        Re: On-Demand TV Requests

        I believe I already +1'ed you on this post in a different thread, so I'll reiterate my support for these features once more! Pretty much, they've all been brought up here or during the testing.

        The main two would be to add own feeds (one issues is format compatibility, I believe) and ability to auto-download podcasts. That's a pretty common feature that media devices have -- TiVo, Zune iTunes, etc. Like Xtoff mentioned, there's no legal issues with downloading podcasts to VUDU IF podcasts are downloadable in the first place (I believe, there a few which only allow streaming from their sites).

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          Re: On-Demand TV Requests

          There is but there isn't with podcasts. I think part of the problem is that the "rights" or what not vary tremendously. Tivo for example, prohibits you from downloading a podcast pushed to the Tivo via Tivo Desktop. In fact, they go so far as to copy protect ANY content pushed to the Tivo even if you push your own (people have been experimenting with this because you can now push MPEG-4 or H.264 video directly to the Tivo).

          Now, there should be no reason that you can't set a queue anyhow. Just don't download it until you are ready to watch it.

          Still in the end, the ramifications of caching should be minimal since there's no financial transaction involved anyhow...

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