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Originally Posted by DaBoz
I think we are at cross purposes. TiVo app appears to retrieve photos from cloud services such as google, facebook and flickr. So first you have to get photos from your PC to that cloud service. That requires uploading via your VM broadband connection which is only 1 mbit on my tariff which is very slow for photos from average cameras these days.
So, I have to upload from my PC to a cloud service, then download back to my living room with TiVo.
It would be much easier to connect my TiVo to my PC and cut out the cloud storage middleman.
Make sense?
So, for those that use the photo app, how do they find uploading all their photos via VM broadband?
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I upload photos to Facebook and MSN Live and they upload in few seconds
I have no probs at all and I'm just on 10 meg connection
I think what you maybe overlooking - web/onscreen/TVscreen quality of a picture is only about 10th of printable/photo/camera quality
Not sure but I assume both Facebook and MSN live are quite aware of that and compress the photo on upload
If you arer actually uploading 'photo quality' images then
A/ They will take 10 times as long
B/ You wont be able to see this quality on your TV or monitor
= it's waste of time and bandwidth
Even Outlook and Outlook express compress pictures for emailing
EDIT:
I see you've already discovered this now:
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Originally Posted by ahardie
I think picassa reduces the size of the picture to cut down on the upload. At my viewing distance I hadn't realised this as the pq looked fine.
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Originally Posted by DaBoz
I have several Gb of photos. How long will this take?
Edit: at least 6gb at last check.
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With MSN live you can drag drop load of pictures and it will upload them very fast (4-5 seconds per pic)
Another method is it to use Windows Live Photo Album on your PC and just select all photos & right-click>upload
this uploads them to MSN Live space again which i use to share my photos across the web and even include in Ebay adverts