BlackBerry® Storm™

[Dankees]

YouTube has added TV Shows and Movies to its web-site!!!

Now, we can watch TV Shows & Movies, directly on YouTube's web-site!!!

TV Shows

Movies

(But there is no mobile site, yet.)

Message Edited by Dankees on 04-17-2009 09:27 AM

[JSanders Resident Expert]

I read, its very nice!

I use the mobile site very often... m.youtube.com

[Dankees]

Yeah, but we can't watch the TV Shows or Movies on our BlackBerries...

[kentonvannatten]

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Dankees wrote:
Yeah, but we can't watch the TV Shows or Movies on our BlackBerries...

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It appears that YouTube.com/shows does not have a mobile version of the site.  If you change your Browser Config to Firefox or IE, does it work then?

[dave1812dave]

the youtube experience on my Storm was atrocious.  Lousy video quality (not the phone's fault, but a bandwidth issue).  If I want to watch fluid and clear youtube videos (mostly music videos) I use my Touch on wifi.  Once you have seen how good YT video can look on other portable devices, you'll quickly lose enthusiasm for bothering to view them on a Storm.  And that's a real shame, because the Storm's screen is far better than the Touch when it comes to contrast and color.  I placed some movie files on my Storm and they look fantastic.  Couple that with the loud speaker (compared to the wimpy Touch speaker) and you've got yourself a great little movie player.

Message Edited by dave1812dave on 04-17-2009 08:40 AM

[JSanders Resident Expert]

It's all personal experience.. apparently. I have good quality on mine. Personal experiece.

[Dankees]

Yeah, does it work in IE or FireFox?

[cortecds]

Not a very good choice of shows.

I can view live tv with orb.com

I just install it on my pc and it will stream to my BB.

[liltray1984]

Is there any way to watch full show episodes or movies that doesn't require downloading something to a PC? I don't have a personal computer...just the BB Storm. Thanks!

[dave1812dave]

J, I think of it more as "relative" rather than simply personal preference.  IF you saw better performance from a youtube app on another device, you would throw rocks at the youtube/BB function.  It's not in the same ballpark.  The screen however, is far nicer than that of a Touch or iPhone.  The youtube videos streaming over the Verizon network are HORRID, and I am not exaggerating.  I bandwidth issue, obviously, just like the issue with Pandora on the BB.  It is a pale imitation of Pandora on the Touch, over wifi.  A Pandora rep even TOLD me that the day the app hit, in a personal email to me.  It's not like I am making this stuff up.  There's only so much quality that we can get over the EVDO and it sure doesn't rival the media experience over a fast wifi connection.  For $60 a month for the data plan for phones for me and my wife, I was not a happy camper seeing the limitations in quality of streaming media and the internet which is painful to browse via the phone.  I knew going in, it would be slower than wifi, but I had no idea just how long pages would take to load.

Message Edited by dave1812dave on 04-17-2009 02:58 PM