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TVBrick to pump Japanese TV across Net (Register)
The Register covers French
open source software company Nexedi as it launches TVBrick. "TVBrick
works something like this. At home, in Japan, you connect your TVBrick to
your TV and to the Internet via a broadband link. When you're away, you can
use a standard PC, again connected by broadband, to log into your TVBrick
and start watching. Nexedi also offers what it calls the TVBrick Player, a
simple playback system for users without a PC in their remote
location."
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TVBrick to pump Japanese TV across Net (Register) Posted Jul 9, 2003 19:11 UTC (Wed) by TimCunningham (guest, #10316) [Link] Does this come across to anyone else as fairly useless? You get sub-VHS quality video at 9 fps for $1000 up front and another $180 a year...
TVBrick to pump Japanese TV across Net (Register) Posted Jul 10, 2003 8:04 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link] Useless? Well, it's amazing what people will pay for...I'm much more concerned about the effect on bandwidth. There is an alternate method of receiving TV programmes across the Internet - needs only one server (instead of zillions) plus distributed mirrors - at the user end the effect is the same but the bandwidth requirements on the central core are much reduced. As a consumer I can choose not to have TVBrick, but I can't choose not to have my share of the network bandwidth clogged up with other people's video junk - lots of which will be copies of each other! TVBrick sounds to me like either a system designed to bring the core network grinding to a halt, or to sell huge quantities of expensive hardware to the network core operators.
TVBrick to pump Japanese TV across Net (Register) Posted Jul 9, 2003 22:05 UTC (Wed) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link] If TVBrick is illegal, a mirror or optical devices (telescope, optical fiber, etc.) allowing to watch TV at distance would also be reflecting or transforming the copyrighted information, so illegal.
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