A “Napster Moment” for TV Downloads

Written by Ernesto on October 25, 2006 

The “Tape it off the Internet” project is currently in the final stages of the closed Beta program. TIOTI might very well be a realistic representation of what the future of TV will look like.

The TIOTI project approach to socialize and optimize your TV Download experience. TIOTI combines great design, TV-torrent tracking, favorites, recommendations, RSS feeds, tagging, groups, wiki’s, and a lot more ‘Web 2.0′ stuff.

In an interview we did with Paul Pod, one of the founders of the project, he said that their goal is to create a “Napster moment” for TV downloads.

I don’t know if you remember downloading music before Napster came along, but it was an experience not dissimilar to the BitTorrent experience today. And remember when you tried out Napster for the first time? We’re aiming to create that Napster moment for TV downloads. Web 2.0 is neither here nor there - what matters is good architecture and fantastic design. For non-geeks, it’s all about the user experience - if it sucks they don’t come back.

Last May we were able to give you a sneak peek behind the screens. Over the past months a lot of work has been done to optimize and add features to the site. Some of the new (working) features that are worth mentioning are RSS feeds for your favorite shows, and integration with Amazon and the iTunes store.

iTunes integration

The episode view includes links to downloads from the iTunes store.

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Amazon offers

The Show page includes links to DVD’s from the Amazon store.

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Download screen & RSS feed for favorites

TIOTI offers RSS feeds for ever show, but also feeds for your favorite shows. This makes it easy to stay up-to-date.

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There is no official release date for the public Beta yet, but it won’t take long now.

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13 Responses

1 Oct 25, 2006 at 23:31 by en3r0

I can’t wait to try it out!

2 Oct 26, 2006 at 00:33 by Ladon

This looks fantastic!

3 Oct 26, 2006 at 01:03 by Wallruss

It certainly looks nice but does it really do anything new that thousands of other TV downloaders aren’t already doing? Maybe it’s for people who aren’t downloading TV yet.
wallruss

4 Oct 26, 2006 at 03:10 by Karmakin

This is what the TV networks needed to get together and make on their own.

Too late.

Too bad.

5 Oct 26, 2006 at 11:20 by Jasper van Weerd

It will be a great addition to the web.

6 Oct 27, 2006 at 10:05 by camille

That looks awesome. However I’m afraid of the channels’ answers. They might not like it as much as we do.

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