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Ever since Tivo enabled the ability to watch YouTube videos on its DVRs, I’ve been a big fan. You can read an article I wrote for Technologizer last year, about my experiment where I tried to watch YouTube one evening rather than regular TV.
What I really like is being able to sing in on Tivo HD with my YouTube account, so I can watch my favorite videos, or my YouTube playlists. Having YouTube on the biggest screen in the house is great. When people come over, I can call up YouTube and show them the latest hit viral video, rather than post it e-mailing them a link, or posting a link on Facebook.
Tivo's YouTube Feature Doesn't Work
However, I’ve been noticing a problem recently accessing my favorites. In the last few months “YouTivo” said that I had no favorites, which of course, I do. So, somehow there’s a problem in trying to access favorites, and playlists.
While troubleshooting this problem, with copius amounts of Google searching, I found that others had this problem too. Apparently, the issue is that sometimes videos are deleted or removed by YouTube, or have some other error where they aren’t playable anymore.
The only fix for this problem is to go through your YouTube favorites, and carefully look for any videos that now say “unavailable” and has red text with no link. In my case, I have over 400 favorites, so I have to look at each one individually to ensure that the link isn’t broken.
Once you switch back to YouTivo, your favorites should appear. This worked for me for a few months, but it stopped working recently.
Maybe I missed something, because I still can’t access my YouTube favorites on Tivo. I’ve re-booted the Tivo, signed off and signed on again, and done other things that might blame the Tivo itself. I’ve also used my laptop to go through my YouTube favorites a few times.
But I still can’t access them. So maybe there’s something else going on.
Has anyone else been having this problem? And if so, what did you do to fix it?
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