Reviews of Yahoo! Go

1. 
   terminalx

   Reviewing 0.1.34 Beta (May 1, 2006)

   I am rating this as a 4 because I am not using the tv options at this time...using the yahoo services and the pictures, movies, music and its nice interface but still needs a lot of work more features on how the files can be ordered would be nice it runs smoothly with no issues at this time but as another user noted it has a long way before it even compares with mce because right not its pretty limited
2. 
   exzyle2k

   Reviewing 0.1.34 Beta (Apr 27, 2006)

   Piss Poor. Interface is clunky at best, can only set record time at 5 minute intervals by clicking + or -, channel scan was half-baked... Yahoo needs to put a lot of work into this if it's going to compete with Windows MCE. MCE might be complicated, but it's more intuitive than this thing is. Would have rated 0 if I could.
3. 
   mmatheny

   Reviewing 0.1.34 Beta (Apr 27, 2006)

   Haven't tried it yet, but currently using Orb, matter of fact watching CNN Headline News at work from my tuner at home! I assume this works similar to Orb.
4. 
   spiked

   Reviewing 0.1.34 Beta (Apr 27, 2006)

   I'm in the U.S. and have one of the supported TV tuners, an ATI HDTV Wonder, so I tried this out. What a mess! There are no listings for free broadcast channels (even in a major metropolitan area), only for cable, satellite, and other subscription channels. Although ATI's TV viewer supports fully resizable windows, translucent mode and desktop embedded mode in addition to full-screen, Yahoo only supports full-screen. Worse, you have to figure out that up/down arrows change the channel and Esc exits from TV. If there is any other way to access the controls, I couldn't find them in the program nor Yahoo's FAQ or forum. When watching videos (not live TV), up/down arrow serve a totally different purpose which is confusing.
   
   Luckily, I didn't have to endure the pain for long, because the program crashed within 10 minutes. This is with nothing else running, on a system which can run ATI's TV viewer smoothly for hours.
   
   In short, downloading this was a total waste of time. I'm pretty tolerant of beta software having rough spots, but this is clearly pre-beta quality.
5. 
   tucker84

   Reviewing 0.1.34 Beta (Apr 26, 2006)

   Budgie29: Its a BETA from a US company, they usualy are US English Only... GET OVER IT.
   
   Otherwise, pretty good. Don't use any other Yahoo services though so alot isn't userful to me...

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