A look at SnapStream

[will]

A really interesting article on Ars Technica about SnapStream's new "cheaper" device.

Not really a SageTV replacement, just interesting.

[Fuzzy]

So they are still bragging that Colbert uses it when Colbert's been off the air since December?

[pjpjpjpj]

They were just mentioning that the commercial version was used for shows that need to record tons of content and quickly extrude clips from those shows to be used on another show. It's not like they were bragging that Colbert was a user to try to impress you into buying one.

The home-user version they describe has some cool features if you were a social media addict and needed to constantly post stuff (automated clipping out a piece of a show found by searching closed captioning text, converting it to an animated gif with text overlay... that's kinda cool, but who really needs that?) But otherwise... $500 plus $100/month? No thanks.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

They were just mentioning that the commercial version was used for shows that need to record tons of content and quickly extrude clips from those shows to be used on another show. It's not like they were bragging that Colbert was a user to try to impress you into buying one.

The home-user version they describe has some cool features if you were a social media addict and needed to constantly post stuff (automated clipping out a piece of a show found by searching closed captioning text, converting it to an animated gif with text overlay... that's kinda cool, but who really needs that?) But otherwise... $500 plus $100/month? No thanks.

I was referring to the headling. I've seen the colbert name dropped on every single write-up of snapstream since their business change.. just thought it was funny.