 markopoleo
join:2003-04-02
Bonne Terre, MO | Whoahoo! Everybody loves Raymond in China! Oh wait, pooey. They would not allow him cause he is funny. 
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Boogeyman
Drive it like you stole it
Premium
join:2002-12-17
Huntsville, AL | Re: Whoahoo! Everybody loves Raymond in China! A bit expensive though, for the price of the initail sign up, you could buy a plane ticket home to watch it. Or you could just ask a friend to record it and send it to you.
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dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL
| mythTV there are already lots of products that would allow you to do this.... mythTV works in the same architecture (a backend server that sends to a frontend)... the frontend could be running anywhere, in theory over the net--bandwidth permitting. I'd be curious to know what kind of bandwidth this brick thing needs (that site probably says something, but I'm too lazy to read it and look at their funky japan cartoon drawings).... Even with the best encryptions, VHS quality video can easily max out the average home user's broadband. | |
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dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL
| Re: mythTV ok, the suspense was killing me...
"TVBrick is now tuned to provide a sub-VHS quality image at 9 frames per second." ... so its not even VHS quality... 9 frames per second..my webcam does several times that. ntsc TV is 30 fps
obviously their answer to not enough bandwidth is just not sending as much data... but, i guess thats about all they can do. | |
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dddane
join:2002-01-10
Chicago, IL
| (they're not gonna sell this in the US) Why Japan ?
At least 256 kbps uplink are required to use TVBrick. Only Japan and Korea offer nowadays fast enough uplink connectivity at a decent price. Uplink in Japan starts at 256 Kbps (downling starts at 8 Mbps) and goes up to 100 Mbps for a cost which is about half the cost of high speed Internet in Europe and a quarter of the cost of personal Internet access in the USA.
Nexedi will first sell its product to Japanese citizens who live in Europe. Once the TVBrick home server reaches perfect reliability on fast network infrastructure, Nexedi will target other markets with slower network infrastructure.
Nexedi is interested however in testing TVBrick in countries with slower network infrastructure provided that customers acknowledge the risks posed by such an infrastructure.
Is this Free Software ?
Yes, all software is provided under GPL license. Customers are free to publish it. Nexedi will publish TVBrick software within a few weeks.
What about USA ?
It is not completely certain that the use of TVBrick is legal in countries of Common Law such as the USA or UK where the notion of fair use is quite versatile from one juridiction to another. Also, because the legal system in countries of Common Law generates through the notion of discovery expenses which only multinational companies can afford, Nexedi has decided not to sell TVBrick to citizens of countries of Common Law until we find a distributor which accepts to take all the legal risks in countries of Common Law. We deeply appologize for this. | |
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Shipon
Roflcopter
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join:2001-12-05
Anaheim, CA
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| Re: (they're not gonna sell this in the US) They won't sell it in the US because the bastards in the media companies own the country's lawmakers, and will most certainly make this illegal.
That, and the US doesn't spend enough on giving everyone broadband(I won't be happy until everyone can get a 50MBps/25MBps connection for the price of a standard cable modem).
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| DJMADfx
join:2002-02-27
Bellmore, NY
| TV Tuner You could always have your computer at home with a TV Tuner card in it and view it remotely. 
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sea93
join:2001-11-01
River Grove, IL
| Re: TV Tuner said by DJMADfx  :
You could always have your computer at home with a TV Tuner card in it and view it remotely.
Does that really work? | |
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