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Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-stream dept.

akb writes "Manhattan Neighborhood Network has embarked on a project to combine two community networking communities in NYC, the nascent community wifi network on that isle with public access cable TV. The project has successfully conducted a test which involved cablecasting an mpeg4 video stream being transported by the nycwireless.net wireless node in Bryant Park."

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  1. Joe Mugger by blind_abraxas · · Score: 2, Funny

    OpenFox's newest reality show...

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    one two three four five ?!! That's the combination on my luggage!
  2. Uh oh... by Bisifiniti · · Score: 2, Funny

    The newest fad: Warbroadcasting.

  3. Never Been to New York ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 2, Funny
    But isn't Manhatan a rather wealthy part of New York? For some reason I'm thinking that the story a while back about Laos and their network was more justified than this. And public access cable really sucks.

    Don't believe me ... I'll send you a tape of the "Hallelujia" woman. She sits there sings something in Spanglish ... then screams "Hallelujia" at the top of her lungs, does a chirpy scream ... turns on the guitar distortion ... rocks out to something that resembles a beeat ... and then declares her love to the baby jesus, not the later years of course.

    I don't know if she's doing like story reviews "Obviously baby jesus was more likeable than dying on the cross jesus" ...

    Obviously going off topic here, but who gives a shit? I guess if you don't like it don't read it, but I read it and I just don't see any reason why this gets a spot on slashdot. Compressing a movie to mpeg-4 than transfering it over "wireless" internet has been done before on many occassions.

    If you wanted to impress me, you would have used pigeon carcasses and shoestrings.

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    Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
  4. Vegan Bondage Cooking Show by The+Salamander · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else catch this on public access in Austin, TX? I don't remember the actual title, but that was the content: leather, spankings and dumplings.

    Disturbing and entertaining at the same time!

  5. Press Release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Some rich kids produced some TV shows instead of working. They did a WiFi broadcast of it in Bryant Park. Meanwhile, no guests at the Bryant Park Hotel could be reached for comment, although a burly man wearing all black was overheard saying "can I see your pass?". Everyone else near Bryant Park was either homeless, not interested or a pigeon."

    When there's a WiFi network in Washington Heights, Inwood and the "other" parts of Manhattan, let me know so I can tune in.