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Philips Targets Wireless TV Retransmission At Home
cadfael links to this EE Times story, excerpting: "Philips is attempting to start yet another industry initiative to tackle digital rights management, this time focusing on the wirelessly networked home. 'At stake here,' said Leon Husson, executive vice president of consumer businesses at Philips Semiconductors, 'is the "free-floating" copyrighted content that will soon be "redistributed" or "rebroadcast" to different TV sets throughout a home by consumers using wireless networking technologies like IEEE802.11.'"
What he really saying is this:
"I'm tired of everybody disappearing into their own rooms to watch the same damn program. From now on we will sit together like a REAL FAMILY."
My mom bought the company phone from them, with the .10 cent a month complete repair pacakge back in 1960 something. She had it for 30 years or so, it was really funny seeing the phone guy come out to change the phone cable when the dog ate it. It got to the point after this had happended for the 3-4th time, where he just gave us 2-3 cables for the phone. We wouldnt have bothered, except well, since we weren't allowed to have those other 6 phones plugged in, well then, they can dam well come out here and fix this one. The phone finaly died when the house caught fire.
*moment of silence for the death of a noble communications device*
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it's getting better all the time.
I don't remember (too young), but we used to have a phone with no ringer. Apparently, the phone company used to call their customers and test the voltage used by the phones for ringing (or something like that) to tell how many phones were in use. The phone still worked, it just didn't ring. Gotta love that circumvention technology!
I don't remember what happened to the phone. Either it finally broke and we got rid of it, or it's sitting somewhere unused since we don't have any phone jacks that support it (it's cord looks like a power cord except it has 4 prongs).
"Save the whales, feed the hungry, free the mallocs" -- author unknown
You can get an adapter for that. My grandparents' home has those crazy 4-prong outlets all over the house and they have a great deal of adapters to plug their modular (RJ-11) phones into them.
It's funny to see archaic telephone outlets and broadband in the same house.
Justin
"Why would God give us a waist if we wasn't supposed to rest our pants on it?" - Rev. Roy McDaniels
I fear that this is one area where porn will not lead a technical revolution.