TiVo co-founders bring their Qplay videocassette app to Chromecast, sideline own hardware
TiVo co-founders bring their Qplay videocassette app to Chromecast, sideline own hardware
Qplay righteous embraced Google’s Chromecast — and featuring in roll effectively gave up on being a box hardware startup.
Maybe building a dyed-in-the-wool videocassette streaming box with the aim of doesn’t even get a Netflix app wasn’t such a moral scheme, with all: Qplay, the videocassette startup founded by TiVo co-founders Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton, announced a brand new version of its iPad app Tuesday with the aim of adds the facility to cast videos to Google’s Chromecast streaming stick — a substantial gush correction on behalf of a company with the aim of launched its own device to compete with Chromecast, Roku and others earlier this time.
Qplay’s app allows users to subscribe to and share queues, or else Qs, the same as the company likes to call them, of online videocassette brainwashing. Think YouTube channels, videos your acquaintances get shared on Facebook, Bloomberg news reports and clips from Comedy Central. Qplay auto-plays queues to transform online videocassette from a constant hunting and gathering into a leanback experience. And with this week’s keep informed, users can in addition cast these endless streams of brainwashing to Google’s Chromecast.
“It brings the pPlay software to a great assemble of consumers,” whispered Qplay first in command Phil Peterson through an interview Monday. Peterson, who had been Qplay’s VP of engineering until demo, secure me with the aim of the company was vacant to go on with to support Qplay’s own streaming device, which the company introduced featuring in February on behalf of $49, on behalf of the calculate being.
But through our conversation, I certainly got the sagacity with the aim of the characters is on the edge on behalf of Qplay’s box, which looks a smidgen like an peripheral difficult drive with an HDMI haven. “We are certainly vacant to take place a software and services-based company,” admitted Peterson, toting up with the aim of he’d like to probably build support on behalf of other smart box platforms featuring in the expectations the same as well.
A brand new, exclusive focus on short-form content
With the aim of adjustment featuring in direction comes with a connect of substantial implications on behalf of Qplay. The company in the beginning had diplomacy to in addition add premium videocassette from services like Netflix and Hulu Plus to its own app, allowing its users to mix and match long-form and short-form videocassette from both on the house and premium content publishers. However, Qplay didn’t get a companionship with Netflix once it launched earlier this time, and Ramsay showed me a proof-of-concept with the aim of was based on Netflix’s portable app running on Qplay’s hardware as a replacement for.
With Chromecast, this wouldn’t take place likely, which is why the Qplay team apparently has agreed up on content from Netflix and the likes. “The subsequently immense budge featuring in entertainment is vacant to take place suddenly form videocassette,” whispered Qplay voice Ashley Martin-Golis.
Qplay in addition added a hardly any other facial appearance to its app Tuesday, as well as the facility to search on behalf of queues by hash tag, the same as well the same as so-called social gathering queues. These are in effect collaborative playlists. It’s a smidgen like YouTube’s Chromecast app, someplace users can in addition build collaborative queues on the wing — with the difference with the aim of Qplay’s queues are persistent, value with the aim of users can exit back and rewatch everything, and with the aim of social gathering queues can in addition take place edited by users smooth out dazed across separate locations.
Featuring in the put a stop to, Qplay’s move from its own hardware to Chromecast is a smart lone, since the company couldn’t compete anti Google with its own, much other restricted hardware. But at the present with the aim of it has embraced Chromecast, it strength of character in addition get to compete with loads of other apps on behalf of with the aim of platform, which puts pressure on the company to dig up its portable experience correct.
Tags : TiVo , Qplay , app , Chromecast, hardware
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