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An anonymous reader writes: "Interesting article from the Philadelphia Inquirer that talks about the Cable industry's goal of creating a tv top device that can work in any franchise. 'Some fear that Comcast will wield inordinate clout in deciding what kind of box customers will be able to buy.' It's only their goal because the government made them.
Just another fp. Go on, mod it down. *sigh*.
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In this sad world, people grudge first posts.
... would be a set-top box which removes commercials.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
"... the DCP501 home theater system, a hybrid digital cable box, DVD player and high-end stereo that goes for $900."
I'd be scared to spend that sort of money on any TV tuner because the widespread adoption of HDTV is on the horizon. Undoubtedly the tuners of today will become useless within a few years time with DRM being built into programming and all. I've always seen that as a reason not to buy combo systems; when one of the components becomes obsolete, you have to replace the whole thing.
The future isn't what it used to be.
Any chance for an open source/hardware design to compete (or at least make an entry) in this market segment? It'd be great to have an alternative to the major "powers that be" as far as an source of supply for cable hardware.... I don't want to simply exchange who get's paid for the hardware...
Before we launch into the conspiracy theory (government/cable company control of what you think etc...) I would just like to say that the UK has had this kind of interactive box for a while now... and they work really well. Both cable and satellite users have a digital set top box that not only allows them to watch TV but also interact with the programming. It lets them view different camera feeds, participate in polls and quizzes, interactive TV schedules that can be linked to hard disk recording, not to mention the ease of buying stuff with those home shopping channels. Just pressing the red button the remote control when watching a news program brings up a wealth of background information.
Granted the boxes are provided by the cable or satellite company, and yes they do decide what you get to view... but hasn't this always been the way with television?
--dan
A universal set-top box would be very convenient - it brings together a wide, demanding audience from various cable companies, and as a result, may provide a better "viewing experience".
However, could this be another ploy by the industries to round the entire consumer base up in order to easily dish out digital rights management technology?
Then again, it's just a black box...
Surely the future of TV decoding is in Software, not hardware.
Even my laptop is quite up to the job of decoding a DVD glitch free without a funky card on board.
Sell me a licence to a bit of software that I can install on any hardware, that will allow me to watch certain channels. When I want to upgrade just send me a patch, so I can watch more football.
Soon it will be cheaper to bundle the hardware with a DVD player, or CD plater, or the TV, or you kettle - so why persist in trying to get people to buy boxes. People are scared of wasting money on black boxes.
Sell them a bit of software on the otherhand - and give them a free box with it - and away you go. They then know that when the software or the hardware start to limit their fun they can upgrade without having to throw the lot away.
Think outside the bun? The only thing that taco bell got me was nasty diarreah. think outsiide the cable box? Am I going to be shitting ICs?
The IEEE had an article on it here in July. It's got some of the specs they're aiming for, as well as a few of the other big players. M$ is in there of course. The last paragraph is also a nice reality check.
Comcast is wielding monoplistic powers(yeah its not spelled right). I recently turned off my cable TV service in favor of DirecTV. However I kept my Cable Modem service as its the only high-speed internet service availble to me(no dsl yet). Comcast tells me they are very sorry i'm changing at that my bill will be $5 more a month now that i don't have cable TV.. fine no problem i say..
So now 3 months later i get a letter in the mail informing me that the because that they have a great new pricing scheme for Cable Internet. In fact the price stays the SAME at $42 of your a comcast subscriber.
But if yer not a comcast subscriber its now $60!! ok people thats insane!
but wait! comcast will offer me(in same letter) truly basic cable tv of 30 channels(remember when that was a lot?) for 12 dollars a month more.. and of course since i would get cable from them the internet would go back down to $42.. and i would SAVE 17 dollars according to them.. Yet either way i still pay at least 15-17 more dollars.. and i don't even want their stinking Cable. Oh and i have 1 week to decide by next billing cycle the letter states..
No not a abusive monopoly at all.. Now I'm just waiting for DSL to become available in my area and I'll switch first chance i can & Then i'll never have to give money to comcast again. They lost a customer with that horrible "new" policy of thiers.
I would like to see these groups actually solicit input from and listen to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Instead of letting big business install DRM copy-rape software at our expense, fair protections should be built into these boxes to allow us to timeshift, possibly skip commercials, and even to share broadcasts. I don't mind if a "pay per view" show can't be shared, or even if it has limited views after recording, but I want the ability to watch what I want when I want and how I desire. If the potential customers had some say in how these boxes are designed, we might be much more likely to buy the things. Ease the fears of your typical /. reader, and the companies will find lots of technology acolytes to preach the wonders to the masses. Make us happy, and we will recommend the boxes to our family and friends. Ignore us, and may these boxes go the way of the Divx boxes that Circuit City lost so much money on. Media companies, throw us a bone and gain valuable allies. Screw us over and we will hack our ways to freedom.
To those who claim we have no fair use rights, I buy items to own. I expect the freedom to use my possessions as I see fit. Any restrictions on that perceived right of mine will be resisted by all means possible. Do not forget the power of the customer, we are always right.
Note, I am not a consumer. I will not be spoonfed whatever the media companies decide. I am a customer and I exercise the right to withhold my money if mistreated.
This is one of the big reasons I canceled cable and continue to refuse to get a satellite system--I don't want a box, with another remote (that would make 5 total) and a barrier to recording one program while I watch another. We know why cable providers love these stupid boxes (they can send more vacuous, overly-compressed channels, and don't like time-shifting anyway) but unless they can come up with a convincing reason I should pay for inferior service, I'll continue to just say no.
It seems like the cable industry has a great incentive to commonize the set-top cable box. With equipment manufacturers coming and going over the years, with diverging equipment standards, why didn't the cable industry collective deliver a conclusion a decade ago?
Clearly they were able to do so with cable modems (DOCSIS). I know the whole cable modem buiness was on 3 or 5 years old, so maybe that was the difference.
I think a study of their failure to get their act together would help other industries (like the wireless telephone industry) figure out what the heck they're doing wrong. Clearly, commonality of standards greatly lowers infrastructure costs. And CATV and Wireless Telco wants to minimize device cost, 'cause they sell service.
Does some business school have a (good) case study that discusses this issue? If these business schools are worth beans, someone has studied this before and published it in a journal. Someone post a URL!
Well, for one thing "they" are going to have to decide on a conditional access system (the part the encrypts/decrypts the premium content). The two big players, Motorola and Scientific Atlanta, both currently use their own proprietary schemes, and wield a lot of power on their own (after you spend several *illion dollars to setup a Moto system, switching to SA ain't cheap or easy).
This whole thing sounds like it's going to go the route of HDTV in the US: it's going to keep getting pushed out further and further while Hollyweird and the current monoplies sort out how much they can gouge us, and how much they can minimize our use of the content.
In the end, we all lose.
I think I'm going to put my rabbit ears back on my tube, and tell 'em all to K.M.A
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Does that make me a bad person?
One box, one cable company, one tv channel, one show.
I quess Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and other game console manufacturers are already planning when to start production of devices which combine them all, and also develop remote applications (like office tools). Is this Microsoft's worst nightmare actually? Switching to another office suite, for example, is much more simpler if it does not require any installation but is done over network instead. Maybe this was another reason why they jumped into game console business.
That was when it was just the engineers. Then the lawyers got involved. Oh yes. The lovely EU Competition Commision discovered this bunch of engineers from all the major players working together and decided that wouldn't do, and split them up. They forced ITV and the cable companies to eject Sky, and pay Murdoch a few hundred million pounds in compensation. From that point on things just went downhill. The idea of the universal box was killed the moment the managers, lawyers and marketroids got hold of it.
The humble cable box, for years a mere channel-flipper, is in for a multimedia makeover: Beefed-up boxes of the future could let you play video games online, share digital photos with friends, and maybe do other things people in the business haven't even imagined yet.
They need to come over to my house and play with Sky Digital if this is what they think. Playing games on your TV? Been there, done that, it doesn't work needless to say. For one, the games take forever to load - even with the gigabits of bandwidth they have coming off of Astra it can take several minutes to load games - it's like being back with a Commodore 64. Then, when the games do load, they are extremely primitive and loaded with advertising. Realtime games are out as the latency involved from the handset is huge - I tried a simple top down racing game one time, it was almost unplayable as the car responded almost a second after I hit the button. Finally, there aren't many of them, as interactive TV applications are far more expensive to produce than computer apps. Interactive TV is basically dead as a from of entertainment. Where it does shine is in getting information - BBC News Interactive and Sky News Active are great. It also does simple interactive additions to programs quite well. The multiple football camera angles are rare however due to the large amount of bandwidth required.
Believe me, interactive TV on a universal cable box? It's a TV engineers dream but in the real world, we've done it, and the PC kicks its ass in almost every respect. It's a big (expensive) white elephant.
There is already an open standard called DVB MHP (see www.mhp.org) for interactive television boxes. MHP stands for Multimedia Home Platform. MHP conformant products have already been launched in Finland and Germany and other european countries will follow over the next coming years.
MHP is gradually being adopted by other continents apart from europe (australia for instance) and in the US, CableLabs has announced that they will be using MHP in their OpenCable specification (see this press release)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:44:10 0100
From: spunkboy
Subject: The horse
Warning! - Before you read any further, you should take the time to read
through this carefully. The material written herein are of explicit
nature, which may be offensive to some people. It contains explicit sexual
descriptions of bestiality nature. If this offends you, please do NOT read
any further. Likewise, if you are a minor or if such material is illegal
where you live, please stop reading here. Violations of apllicable laws are
at own risk, the author is cannot be held responsible.
All characters portrayed in this story are fictional. The events and places
are likewise also fictive. Resemblance to people, places and event are
purely coincidental. If you are unable to tell the difference between
fiction and reality, you should seek professional help.
Critique and comments are welcomed at: spunkboy@gay-mail.net
Copyright 2000 by spunkboy.
_______
I was standing there at the gate to the field. Out in the field I could see
the horses run around. It was a beautiful summer night. I had made a bet
with my lover a zoofriend, Geoff, that during this summer at least one of
us should go for it. We have only talked about animal sex and fantasized
about it while jerking off. Now we had found a place where the horses had
both open field and a bit of a forest to run around. It was 2 am and I got
hard just by thinking about what was going to happen tonight. I had thought
about it all day, from the time we had made the bet, it was a 100 dollar
bet, till now when I stood here. What I hadn't thought about was what the
hell I was going to do if the horse didn't want to or if they started to
move away when we were playing with them. I was suddenly snapped out if my
trance when Geoff came up from behind and started to hum my ass. I could
feel that he was hard as rock too.
- Hi Jonathan, have you been trying them out while you were alone?
- You bastard, you almost game me a heart attack there. I know you like to
hump me doggiestyle but not in public. No I have not been out there with
the horses yet. I have been waiting for you to arrive, you prick.
- Ouch, stingy!!
We both jumped the fence and headed over towards the horses. They looked up
at us and then returned to eating the grass. When we were a few feet away
from them they stopped eating again. We stopped and just stood there to see
what they were going to do. They started to make sounds but didn't move.
Slowly we got closer and closer to the beasts. They were magnificent. When
we were here earlier this morning we had made out choices. The white one
was mine, because I love blondes. Geoff would try the light brown one.
There were a total of 4 stallions that was not neutered in this field. The
other two horses seemed to be too small, but these two were fully grown. We
proceeded to walk up to our chosen horses. At first they backed off a few
steppes but didn't run away. We moved closer to them again and stretched
out our hands for them to sniff on. The light brown one started sniffing
Geoff's hand almost at once but mine just looked at it. Geoff had now
advanced to pet the horse on his head and neck. The horse didn't move.
Slowly my white horse put his nose to my hand and had a sniff, it was
smelling of human cock and precum, because I had been beating off a little
while I was waiting for Geoff to arrive. Hey what can you expect form a
horny 22 year old guy who dreams of animal cock every night. Well it seemed
that the horse liked the fragrance of cock and preecum because he walked up
to me. I started petting his neck and head. Geoff was already moving back
to the rear region of his horse. He was petting the back of his horse. He
looked over at me and started to grin.
- You got the horny one!
- What do you mean?
- He's already coming out of the sheath. Look at that monster. You are
gonna win this bet!
- Did you ever think that you would win it?? There is no chance.
We both started to laugh. I started to bend down at the same time to be
able to watch the cock emerge from the sheath. All I could see was a black,
round tube protruding from the sheath. It looked huge already, but it made
me horny as hell. This was it, I was going to play with a horse cock for
the first time in my life.
A car drove by on the road and both Geoff and I were startled. What the
hell were we doing?? What if someone drove by and stopped when they saw us
masturbating the horses? We decided to get the horses with us into the
forest where we were hidden from spectators. Without further ado I put my
hand on the neck of my horse and started to move towards the forest and he
followed without any hesitation. Goeff and his horse followed us and soon
we had come far enough into the forest and now we were alone.
I took off my tee-shirt and my cut-offs. My dick was rock hard and I let
the hors smell it. I think he really liked it because his nostrils were
flapping with, as I understood it, excitement. Geoff took off his clothes
as well and I couldn't help looking at this God when he stood there in
front of his beast all nude and hard. I can't remember how many times I
have been sucking that cock and getting it up my ass, but it's been 7 years
since the first time we had sex with each other. Goeff was looking back at
me and he smiled again. I proceeded back to petting my horse. I was now
stroking his back and stomach, and he still didn't move away. Perhaps this
was going to be easier than we had thought.
I could see that my beast friend was starting to protrude again, as was
Geoffs. I nodded towards him and he looked underneath his friend and saw
the black stock emerge. I had moved so far back on my horse now that when I
put my hand underneath him I could feel his balls. They were so heavy and
big. I had dreamt of this for so long and finally I was standing there
playing with a pair of horseballs. I loved the feeling of them. I almost
had to put both my hands together to be able to cover one ball. But my
other hand was playing with something else at the moment so I had no time
to play with both my hands on his balls.
He moved his head upwards and gave out a little noise, think it's their way
of moaning, but I didn't bother me. I was holding this thick stock in my
hand. It felt so dry and leathery. I knelt and was now watching my hand
move up and down this black shaft. The shaft must've been at least two foot
long and thick. The shape of his cockhead was round with a big hole in the
middle, it almost looked like a straw. I could see that it was getting
wet. I looked over at Geoff who also was sitting beneath his beast wanking
both cocks at once. I laughed at the sight. I looked back at the monster
cock I had in front of me. It was now close to my head. I hadn't noticed
when my hand was moving it towards my own face. But now I had it there just
in front of me. I stuck my tongue out and tasted the wet drop on the
cockhead. It was so strong and masculine. I just had to get an other taste
of it.
I started jacking his big pole furiously to produce more precum, and I got
more than I had expected. He was now leaking huge amounts of precum. I let
the cockhead smear it all over my face. Geoff was laughing out loud. I
stopped my action and looked over at him. He was covered with horsecum. He
had been wanking his beast friend so hard and fast that the horse had
erupted all over his chest and legs. He stood up and started to walk
towards me. When he came over to me I could see how much cum he actually
had been showered with. It looked like tones of it. I dropped the horseball
and placed my hand on Geoffs stomach and smeared the horsecum all over
him. It felt so great, still warm and sticky. I removed my hand from Geoff
and placed it in front of my face so I could lick it clean. Geoff was
amazed when he saw me lick up the cum. He know I was a sucker for his cum
and would eat it any time he liked to deliver it to me.
I returned to the horsecock in my hand and started to let my hand move all
along the entire thing. I opened my mouth and put the cockhead inside.
Geoff was astouned by this. He had never seen a human suck on a horsecock,
nor did he ever think he would. I started to move my head on this horsecock
like if it was a human cock. I couldn't take that much more than the head
into my mouth due to the thickness, but it felt great to have one inside my
mouth. My other hand was stroking the horse shaft in a greater speed now.
Geoff moved up behind me and placed his cock in my ass crack and pushed
in. He was going to fuck me while I was sucking animal cock.
The horse was making his strange noises now and I could feel the cock
jutter a bit and I knew that soon I would be showered with horsecum too.
Geoff fucked me like a dog, just the way he liked to fuck me - like an
animal. I was just about to bring my hand to my mouth and remove the
horsecock from it when I felt Geoff tighten his grip and stiffen, this
caught me off balance and I had to put both hands on the ground as not to
fall over. At that moment the horse started to unload his thick juicy cream
into my throat. First I got a puke feeling but I gathered my thoughts and
started to swallow instead. Geoff saw what was going on and unloaded his
creamy load into my ass violently and when he had finished his work in my
ass he withdrew and crawled up to my face.
He was looking at me happily when he saw me gulping down horsecum, some of
it was sipping through my lips, but that Geoff took care of. When I thought
that the horse was done I took the cock out of my mouth and at the same
time I got two new shots of cum all over my face. That was the last cum he
shot that time.
Geoff was looking at me and smiling. I started licking my face and when he
had filled his mouth with horsecum he kissed me and let me share the taste
with him. When we were done with the horses I realised that I had cum
without touching myself. When we stood up I felt like I had had one hell
of a big dinner. I was so full.
As we were heading away from the field and the horses we both agreed on
that we had both won the bet and that we had to do all of this over again,
but no bet the next time. When we got back home Geoff asked me if I think I
could ever get a horsecock up my ass, the reason was that he knew how much
I loved animalsex and he wanted me to be able to be bred by an animal, and
to see me get fucked by a horse would make him happy. We both agreed that
we would do anything we could to get me ready to be bred by a horse. A
couple of weeks later I was.
The end.
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 06:57:32 0100
From: I'm myself
Subject: The Horse part 2
Warning! - Before you read any further, you should take the time to read
through this carefully. The material written herein are of explicit
nature, which may be offensive to some people. It contains explicit sexual
descriptions of bestiality nature. If this offends you, please do NOT read
any further. Likewise, if you are a minor or if such material is illegal
where you live, please stop reading here. Violations of applicable laws are
at own risk, the author is cannot be held responsible.
All characters portrayed in this story are fictional. The events and places
are likewise also fictive. Resemblance to people, places and event are
purely coincidental. If you are unable to tell the difference between
fiction and reality, you should seek professional help.
Critique and comments are welcomed at: spunkboy@gay-mail.net
Copyright 2001 by spunkboy.
*******************
NOTE NOTE NOTE!!!! Two guys wrote to me on January 2nd. Unfortunately I
erased your mails before I had a chance to reply to them. So if you read
this one PLZ write me again, because I wanna reply to you. One of you wrote
me a long mail, what I remember is that you are a high school student.
*******************
The horse and then some
The day after Geoff and my escapades in the woods with the horses we
decided to start working my ass to get it ready for a big pole. Geoff
fucked me raw in the morning and after he had fucked me he stuffed me with
a cucumber. The further away from the initial encounter with the animals,
the bigger the things he stuffed in me. It was anything from cucumbers and
eggplants to finally his hand. We had now come to the state of fisting. Or
to be exact, I was getting fisted. I didn't like it at all, but I couldn't
stop thinking about what was waiting for me at the end of the tunnel.
One day when I got back home from work I found a note from Geoff. He wanted
me to come to the old bowling alley. That was an old closed down building
that was located on the outskirts of town. I had my dinner and then drove
to the old bowling alley. As I entered the building I could smell that this
was a place of many ppl. It smelled of sex, hot raw sex. Don't know if it
only was between males and females or if gay guys also got here and
zoophiles. But they couldn't bring a horse in here, so that was out of the
question. I could see a light burning at the far end of the alley so I
started to move over there. As I got closer I could see Geoff. He was
sitting there on a blanket, all naked and hard.
- Hey good looking.
- Look who's talking, hey man what brings you here?
- Well your note for starters. Why did you want me to get down here?
- Get undressed and I will tell you.
I started to undress and Geoff told me about he had longed for having sex
in this building. Since everybody else was talking about it he wanted to
try it. I was now standing there in front of him, completely naked. Geoff
moved over to me and started sucking my cock, which got rock hard in an
instance. I started to moan, at the same time I started playing with
Geoff's hair, back and ass. I shoved a finger up his ass and finger-fucked
him. He was now working my cock like a vacuum pump. I eased him off my dick
and walked around him, he was still on his knees, and raised his ass a bit
and then inserted my dick to the hilt. Geoff inhaled and kept his breath,
he was used to having my cock up his ass but he was always surprised when I
drove all of my meat inside him in one shove. Steadily I started to rock
Geoff back and forth, letting him ride my rod. All too soon I felt the
familiar feeling of my nuts contracting up towards my pelvis. I was on the
verge of flooding him. With a few more moves I surrendered to the nature of
hornyness. I erupted inside Geoff. I had not released my seed earlier today
so I was able to place a big load up his ass. When my dick had softened I
withdrew from Geoff and placed myself on my hands and knees. I was always
up for a good fuck doggie style.
- Stand still like that while I catch my breath, will you?
- Sure thing hun, just don't take too long.
- I won't. just give me a few more seconds.
I kept still on my hands and knees. All of a sudden I felt two hairy, small
and sharp things on my waist. I knew them from my childhood. That was dog
paws. As I looked back I saw this gorgeous German Shepherd looking down on
me and behind him was Geoff. Geoff was rock hard and beating off at the
show in front of him. I could feel the dog try to hump me but he was way
off track. Geoff noticed it too and bent down and guided the dog into
position. Then with one thrust I could feel the sharp pain in my ass as the
dog cock entered me. I know I was very familiar with human cock and a dog
cock was not that much thicker. And a dog cock is pointy in the upper end
where as a human can be thick. But the feeling was great. The dog took me
in as his bitch without any introduction, and I agreed to be his bitch
without any complains. I could feel him growing inside me and he pushed
more and more of himself inside me. I knew there was a knot somewhere
behind me and that was the thing to watch out for. Because when that
entered your ass you would feel some real pain. I just relaxed and let the
dog take the command, not that I had any thing to say about it. I could
also feel squirts of pre-cum flowing into my ass, and just the thought of
it belonging to a dog made me horny. Geoff got up in front of me and
produced his cock to me.
- Hope you don't mind me bringing a dog to the meeting!
- Nah, that's okay, but where did you get it from?
- My neighbor is sick and he wanted someone to take it for a walk today
when his wife was away so I thought it could be a good idea to volunteer
for the job.
- You are a sweetie Geoff!!
- Thank you! You are a sugar too Jonathan.
I opened my mouth and Geoff stuck his cock inside me. Now I was being fed
both ways. Geoff was fucking my face hard and I knew he was making out with
the dog, because I could feel droop dripping down on my back. The dog was
pounding my ass violently and I could feel the know knocking on my outside
wall. Soon I could not resist it any longer and he shoved his knot inside
me. I froze to the occasion and could not move any longer. Prior I had been
rocking myself in the same tempo as the dog was fucking me, now I was stiff
as a statue. He slowed down his tempo and fucking but I could feel him
swell inside me. He was now trying to almost climb up on my back. I must've
been a real tight fuck hole for him and he seemed to like it. Geoff liked
it a lot and he lost his control and flooded my mouth with his love
nectar. The dog was still making short fuck motions and I could feel the
tension building up inside me. I was filled with a good amount of dog
pre-cum inside my ass and soon I was to receive the real stuff too. Just
after I had thought that I could feel him erupt! I spat out Geoff's cock
and moaned out load. The dog was almost nibbling my ear while he crept
closer to me. He was sure loving it. I could feel all the dog cum inside
me. It was warm and juicy. I was kind of sad that I had not been able to
suck him off first. Would love to have a dog erupt in my mouth, well
perhaps Geoff and I could borrow the dog again some day soon and then I
would suck the dog dry. But now I could just stay there on all fours
letting the dog empty his balls inside me. I can sure say that it was one
hell of a fuck. In the end I could swear that ppl outside the bowling alley
could hear the dogs balls smack into my ass. It was loud and I thought it
was hot. Now my only concern was how long would he stay tied with me? I had
read a lot of erotica on Nifty about getting tied with dogs, and the time
varied from 15 minutes to 45 minutes. It felt like my ass was going to blow
if he didn't get out off me soon. But there was not much I could do about
it now was there? The dog got down from my back and turned around so we now
was ass to ass. He started to pull a bit and I thought I was going to
scream my lungs out. Got it hurt. But Geoff saw the whole thing and shoved
a tee-shirt into my mouth so I wouldn't make to much noise. I could feel
tears falling from my eyes due to the pain, but also tears of joy from
finally being bred by an animal. It was not the dream of my life, a black
stallion, but a dog was fine too. Geoff started to stroke my cock and in no
time I flooded the floor. After about 35 minutes the dog was able to pull
out of me. Geoff was quick to stuff a butt-plug in my ass so that I was
able to save the dog cum inside me. The dog walked off a bit and then laid
down and started to lick his cock. Slowly I could see it shrink down and
finally disappear into the sheath again. I looked at Geoff, smiled at him
and gave him a kiss.
- You really liked that Jonathan. I could feel that the dog liked it too.
- Yeah Geoff, that was awesome. I hope we can do it again soon.
- I don't think that will be any problem.
I tried to stand up, but the fatigue after being fucked like that still had
the power over me and I fell down to my hands and knees again. Geoff
laughed at me and came and sat down by me. I could feel the dog cum run out
of my ass hole, God a dog could really fill one up.
After another 20 minutes I was able to stand up again. Geoff took me by my
arm and made sure I didn't fall over or collapse. We started to get dressed
and walk out of the building. When we were on the way home we agreed on
that we would try out the stallions again.
The next night we headed out to the field again. We had been out there
earlier dropping off some equipment for the nightly action. We had built a
contraption that looked like a jump plint from a gym, though lower. When we
got there our first goal was to bring the horses with us up to the woods,
that way we would be out of sight for everybody. There was no problem
getting the horses with us. Don't know if they remembered the fun they had
had the last time or if they were just stupid. When we had walked them up
to the contraption of ours Geoff immediately undressed, he was hard as
ever. I followed suite and got undressed too. Geoff had found hit 4 legged
lover from last time and was already petting it's head, back and belly. He
swiftly moved his hands back towards the sheath. When he got there he
started to caress it, stroke it and fondle the horses balls. I could
clearly see the cock emerge from it's cave and Geoff soon grabbed a hold of
it and started to stroke it up and down, up and down. Just by seeing that I
could feel my dick getting even harder, if that was possible. Geoff went
down under his stud and started to lick and suck that big cock that had
emerged. I stood there next to my animal friend and watched Geoff have his
way with the beast of his own. Geoff was a careful guy and just before his
horse started to deliver he pulled the cock out and received the gift of
that animal prick in front of him onto his body and in his face. When he
was done he came over to me. We kissed and then Geoff asked me to bend over
and get strapped into the contraption. When I was done he started to gather
the horsecum he had all over himself and smear it into my asscrack and into
my hole. He easily passed his whole hand into my ass. I oohed when I felt
him make a fist inside my ass. Geoff fistfucked me for a little while and I
have to say it started to feel good. Oh how I was looking forward to the
next stepp. To get bred by a stallion. I felt so dirty right now but also
so darn good. Geoff withdrew his hand from my ass and then helped me up in
the contraption.
The contraption we had built was like a vaulting-box with a soft top. It
was built up to make the one on the top be in the right hight to be bred by
a horse. When the one being bred was strapped in, there was a top put on
above so that the weight of the horse would not be crushing it's lover. My
legs was strapped in real hard and I could barely move them. My hands was
holding on to the rails on the opposite side of the vaulting-box. My head
was facing down into the vaulting-box and my ass was the only thing showing
to the outside world. Geoff brought the white stallion to the love box. The
horse sniffed my ass a little and then I could feel his tongue extend and
lap over my ass once. He made some noises and then Geoff started to rub his
protruding cock. The horse sniffed my ass once more and then jumped onto
the vaulting-box. I was now it's mare and it felt wonderful. What happened
next almost made my heart stop. Geoff took hold of the stallions cock and
guided it towards my waiting hole. The first fuck-move he made his cockhead
came in contact with my ass, it felt almost like a fist. The next fuck he
rammed his cock inside me. It hurt so much I screamed and started to cry. I
regretted to go along with it. I called for Geoff to abort the "mission"
and get the cock out of me, but he was unable to. The stallion really took
ownership of me and all I could do was to be strapped in the way I was and
let the stallion have his way. Geoff got up in front of me.
- Are you okay Jonathan?
- It hurts!!! * sob * please make it end now * sob *
- I've tried to get the cock out of you but I'm not able to. Hopefully he
will be done soon. Just hang in there babe. I'll be here with you all the
way.
- But it hurts!!!!
- Shush, babe.
Geoff moved around the vaulting-box and to the back of stallion. He placed
his hands on the cock that was pounding my ass to pieces and started to
jack him off at the same time. It felt like a lifetime, though in actual
time it was only 5 minutes. Geoff was talking to me all the time, trying to
calm me down. After about one minute of getting fucked so violently I
passed out. I don't have any memory of what happened around me, all I could
feel was my body rocking back and forth hard. I slipped back into
consciousness from time to time, and each time I came back to life I
regretted what I was doing. I was however lucky enough to slip back into
consciousness just before the stallion started to fill me up. He froze to
the occasion as his cock started to jutter inside me. I was still crying
from the pain, but also for the relieve that this was finally over. At that
moment I could feel the first spurt of horse cum spew inside my ass. It
felt like it was going straight through my body, up trough my throat and
into my mouth. The second spurt made me aware of that I was only human. I
could feel the horse cum spew out of my ass as fast as it was cuming into
me. Geoff got on his knees behind me and placed his hands beneath my
asshole and gathered up as much cum as he could, brought it to his mouth
and swallowed it down. Third and fourth spurt made me start laughing. I
thought I was going insane from all of this. But finally I knew it had come
to an end. He had one or at the most two spurts left before he was spent,
then he would disembark from me and I would get my dignity back. There was
only one more spurt left in his balls. My whole body shook from the fuck
and the cum flow that I felt inside me. After he had shot his final spurt
into me, he kept still for about two minutes and then he got of the
vaulting-box. When he withdrew his big cock from my ass I screamed again,
he had torn my ass to pieces and I was actually bleeding from my ass. Not
much, but enough to make Geoff and me freak out. There was no way that we
could go to the hospital and explain to them that we had been in the woods
getting fucked by horses. We would most certainly be locked up in a nut
house. Instead Geoff made me lay still in the contraption for a few minutes
and then he helped me stand up. My legs were barely holding me upright so
Geoff held his arm around my waist. When I finally got my strength back in
my body we slowly moved down to the car. Geoff made me sit in the passenger
seat and then he went back to the woods and disassembled the vaulting-box,
brought it with him back and put it in the back of the car. Then we drove
off home. On the way back we discussed what had happened and the feeling of
being fucked by an animal. I had been bred by two animals today so I had
something to compare with. I had made up my mind, horses to suck off and
dogs to be mounted by. Sure it was an experience to be fucked by a horse,
but it was too big for me, so to speak. Geoff laughed a little.
- You will probably change your mind later on again.
- Well that is something we will have to see about. But I will stick to
dogs and you for now.
- I'll always be there for you Jonathan.
He was always there for me, and he still is. I have never gone back to be
mounted by dogs, yet, but we still go up there to give them a blowjob now
and then. But to be mounted, I let that part of sex to Geoff and to the
dogs that we find.
The end
This will also help push out those interactive features so many people want. Well, someone wants.
"Nearly 500 government and private-sector groups have toiled on the project since its 1997 inception."
Obviously the DRM issue has yet to be settled as well.
...TV-cum-Internet.
Come again?
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I know you have to be different by the European standard body for this stuff has a standard called MHP Have a look which already does all of this stuff. The organisation is called DVB that produces this, most of the rest of the planet has gone with the DVB specs and MHP as a future technology direction.
If you want everything to be different the go ahead, but wouldn't it be better all round if the box manufacturers could get cost multiples based on a world market rather than just the US, that way the price of the box could be driven even further down. And with an end game of PS3s being set-up as MHP boxes so you buy that and you've got the box.
OpenCable have taken much of the DVB work and "tweaked" it enough to make it non-standard with DVB because of "differences" in the US market. The reality is that they've done this to keep a closed market rather than face the fact that TV is TV and iTV is just iTV the place where its broadcast is completely immaterial.
Now if you could just use PAL as well we'd just have the French to convert
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
With free-as-in-speech, not RA(N)D, licensing. Because I want to be able to build my own box that doesn't send all my viewership data back to the Man.
According to my e-mail inbox, I can get all the descramblers I want for any cable system for only $50, anyways!
And we all know that if an offer comes via e-mail, it must be legit...
-- Josh Turiel
"2. Do not eat iPod Shuffle."
The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association), the trade group for the companies that would build and sell a retail cable STB (set-top box), has repeatedly said that the secret contract terms offered by CableLabs, known as the PHILA (POD-Host Interface License Agreement) are unacceptable. This has stalled the process of making STBs available as a retail product for several years. See the CEA press release. The HRRC (Home Recording Rights Coalition) is also opposed to the PHILA.
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In fact, DOCSIS 2 is largely based on MHP.
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C'mon guys, let's screw 'em like they've screwed us. Any help is appreciated, and I'm equally interested in Scientific Atlanta or Motorola/GI digital cableboxes.
It works this way across the industry. Charter offers three levels of internet service (they call them bronse, silver and gold). I bought their cheapest service for a reasonable price. A couple months later, I got a letter in the mail. The price of my service was going to rise $10 to just under the price of the next level. THAT VERY DAY, I get a phone call from charter - After the changes to the price structure, I can upgrade to the next level for only $5!
Of course, if I wanted to upgrade, I could have at any time - for the same $15.
I used to live in a market where our only choice for cable was Comcast. Year to year, little by little, they kept increasing the cost of basic service. When I moved to a larger city I had a choice between Comcast and two other companies. Needless to say, I didn't go with Comcast. My cable is now cheaper and I get more channels. My service has cable, telephone, and broadband internet all in one package for about $90/month. Before, I was paying almost $40 for basic cable. What a rip off.
-- Probability does not dismiss possibility --
No because advertisers will realize that Slashdot != Sales!
Eventually they will stop advertising and this shithole will go down for good.
(How could they expect to make any money off of people who claim to be using "open source" software, but are really just pirating Windows?)
... which counts for shit now, with son-of-a-general Powell in charge of FCC. Hold in there, maybe in a decade that area of consumers' right will be as advanced as it is in Spain today, where *all* cable and PPV and satellite boxes are interchangeable.
It's now 2002. Most of us don't tune with the TV anymore. Many of us have VCRs or some other tuner in between. Most of us are really tired of figuring out that the VCR (or PVR) must be 'listening' to the cable box to record the premium channels while the TV is watching something else. It's a big PITA. I spend too much time walking mom and her friends through how to set it up because of this stupid box.
Most of us have laptops or are familiar in some way with PCCards.
What if EVERY TV tuner had a PCCard (aka PCMCIA) like slot in it? What if there were no cable box? Let the card handle the decoding and all the roles of the big hot cable box. Let me slide the card into my VCR that is really the tuner, let me carry it into that spare TV I keep in the garage when I'm working there - it's not worth a box, but I've moved the box into there.
Most televisions with tuners (non-"monitors") are capable of tuning in 200+ channels. Yet they are usually locked onto channel 3. The box demodulates the signal then remodulates it - usually with poor quality - to pass it to the TV. The Audio-Out of those boxes generally is limited to a 30dB range - too poor to run into the home ent. system, so I run it out of the demodulator (my VCR).
Results of a no-box system?
- Lower costs for cable weasels
- Better quality for end users
- Slight increase in costs for various tuners to support (run signal to card and take it back) (start now and it will be commoditized and can be advertised as an advantage)
- Flexibility for the customer
- Portability for the customer
- Easier to program/upgrade for cable provider (need digital, fine - re-flash them or swap them out and do it remotely)
Make it a standard and it will be cheap and work for your cable, or satellite, etc. No sony-only or comcast-only system. Pins 2&4 take balanced digital in, pins 8 & 12 put it out. A DSP and flash are "magic goes here", and you're done.TV industry, are you listening?
No. Thanks for asking though.
-- TV industry
Well, for one thing "they" are going to have to decide on a conditional access system (the part the encrypts/decrypts the premium content).
The last time I checked, OpenCable moves the conditional access out of the cable box and into a module called a POD. So if your cable company uses Moto CA they'll give you a Moto POD and if they use SA CA they'll give you that POD.
Gee, it's only what Sony and MS have been attempting to do in earnest lately. Remember? Control of your living room? The all in one box? News? We don't need no stinkin' news!
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im sorry ppl, i work as a hardware engineer and any signal that you can get can be recorded, or shared. doesnt matter wut. its all in the specs of each hardware/software device. these last steps are a war cry plea for the media industries to try and save there selfs and wut market they have left. in bout 10 years, ull see wut i mean.