PlayOn place-shifts, making content viewable on the TV via select supported set-top boxes including game consoles, Google TV and Roku, or streamed to select portable devices. We can save a few dollars if we commit for the entire year, or if we bundle both services together. In fact however, it does indeed record a stream of video that is playing in a hidden browser on the computer and stores it so you can watch it later, on your own time, without having to be connected to the internet at play time.Īs with PlayOn, PlayLater works on a monthly subscription model. They have recently added the sister service, PlayLater, to provide what they are calling an "Online DVR." At first this might appear to be something of a misnomer, as "recording" implies to me the live capture of video, whereas PlayLater seems to behave much like traditional downloading (read: click, wait, watch). Downloading typically offers a more stable, more enjoyable viewing experience, but of course requires the time to transfer (and the space to store) large files off of the worldwide web.Īnd so MediaMall introduced its PlayOn service, which streams fairly desirable content from a variety of providers for a monthly fee. Streaming promises (but seldom delivers, in my experience) instant gratification when you want to watch movies, TV shows, etc. To stream or to download, that is the Shakespearean quandary facing a media hungry world.
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