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Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC
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."
When you steal something, it is no longer available to whoever you stole it from. Therefore, this is not theft.
Nice troll, though.
Perhaps someday soon this will be practical - but for now, WiFi has too many disdvantages:
1) Bandwidth - even on the newer 54Mbps feed will quickly become saturated
2) QoS is still a pipe dream
3) Microwave ovens - still a predominant feature of many people's homes.
And with HDTV coming out - will we really want to be stuck with 320x200 doubled at 15fps for our TV? Might be a novelty or convenient when you want to watch something important when you're away from home - but seems to me that until WiFi becomes more hardwire-ish, this is a project best left for the novelty that it is. Continue to wokr on giving free ubiquitous wifi on a grand scale (i.e. bigger than just NYC)....
Tell them to feed themselves.