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Building The Broadcast Box

Posted by michael on from the not-getting-a-dell dept.

Mortin writes "The folks at Icrontic have a neat article up titled "The Broadcast Box." They unleashed a room full of designers to build an affordable system, and this 24-page article shows what they came up with, along with benchmarks, design specs, and cost analysis."

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  1. Maybe it's good. by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, in spite of being inable to read the site, I hope the box is a nice one for a reasonable price.

    We have been at the point where a desktop computer could create broadcast-quality video for some time, but a box capable of streaming live broadcast quality would be nice.

    Apple has some bits about CNN dot com doing on-location work on a PowerBook G3, and a recent story about a guy proposing using a movie made in iMovie in a theatre. I imagine the Broadcast Box is probably not a Macintosh, but a dual 1 GHz G4 would probably do quite well also.

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    There is no reason to have links that read "here" or "this".

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  2. "Professionally" handling a server problem by Animats · · Score: 3, Interesting
    It's not clear that it's better to handle it the way cars.com does:
    • Cars.com is temporarily unavailable. Please check back in a few minutes.

      While you're waiting, you can kill some time and still find useful car information at our partner site, CarTalk.

      Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

    This is voicemail hell for web sites.

  3. Re:Legal ramifications of this? DRM? by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well that's why stuff like this gets set up:

    http://www.citizenworks.org/calendar/index.php?o p= show_event&event_id=23

    If your in seattle go to the rally on September 10th and reclaim the media!

    More info at http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/

  4. Re:WOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't know if you're trolling, but actually the Amiga was used for years for transmitting the cable info channel in Montreal, and also in various satellite related tasks. (See here)

    As for live video, in 1990 I watched Predator LIVE on an Amiga 500HD!

    As for broadcast, it's called the Video Toaster.

    Now I'll just go back to my sour grapes and make lemonade. Or something like that.

    If Commodore hadn't been so spectacularly mis-managed, we'd all be debating which video card to stick on our Amigas these days...