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TIOTI – Tape It Off The Internet (Beta)

Posted in AV, Entertainment, Tech by Derek at 2:45 pm
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Tape It Off The Internet (TIOTI) [beta page] recently sent a handful of beta invites out to patient potential users. The service aims to provide members with a one-stop resource for tracking, discovering information / news, and locating available downloads for their favorite television shows. Ignoring the legalities of such a service, is Tape It Off The Internet a web service worth turning towards for television shows?

TIOTI homescreen

Hi, we’re glad you made it. Let us introduce ourselves. Tape It Off The Internet, or TIOTI for short, is a new service tracking all your favourite TV shows, providing show and episode guides, areas to add comments and help you to download shows.

Taking a peak at the homepage along, users may be somewhat confused as to what the service aims to deliver. “Discover, Share, Download, Chat, and Tag”. Sounds like the Web 2.0 spin was dropped on the simple process of bittorrenting television shows.

After a few quick searches for my personal favorites including Lost, Prison Break, and Day Break, I was a little turned off by the results [which were a little on the light side]. I imagine that over time, as the user base increases, the recommendation engine and tagging functionality may prove to add a little bit of that “social” factor fun making the service worthwhile.

Personally, I think I’ll stick with a little Mininova and my favorite bittorrent client.

7 Responses to “TIOTI – Tape It Off The Internet (Beta)”

  1. Jeffy says:
    12/13/2006 at 2:55 pm

    I personally prefer usenet over bittorrent any day and every day. Anyone else?

  2. Derek says:
    12/13/2006 at 4:11 pm

    I’m going to have to admit that I’ve never used usenet. I feel out of place having admitted that :(

  3. Kevin says:
    12/13/2006 at 5:03 pm

    Are there any invites about for this at all? Would love to see which episodes they have of some of those old UK gems!

  4. Jeffy says:
    12/13/2006 at 5:08 pm

    Well if you want some tips on trying it out let me know – I’ve been a faithful user for about 2 years now and don’t plan on going back anytime soon. On average I downloaded about 400-500GB/month on a standard cable connection when I had one at OSU, now I’m down to a DSL connection but it’s still well worth it in my opinion.

  5. Jay says:
    12/13/2006 at 8:20 pm

    I had the same reaction to TIOTI. I really couldn’t tell what exactly they were offering right off the bat.

  6. crave10 says:
    12/14/2006 at 1:23 pm

    jeffy, what server do you use?

  7. Mike D says:
    12/14/2006 at 10:37 pm

    I’m a tioti beta tester and lemme say it isn’t worth the effor of the caps lock. its pretty unremarkable

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