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TV Brick - Open Source TV Streaming?
Anders Jacobsen writes "Nexedi has released the TV Brick - an open source-based box for TV capture and streaming over the Internet. Primarily targeted towards Japanese families living in France (seeing that popular Japanese channels like Yomiuri TV and NHK Sogo are unavailable outside Japan), the idea is that is you plug one of these boxes to a TV antenna and a broadband connection in Japan, and the other to a broadband plug and a TV in France; instant 'magic' happens and all the goodness of Japanese TV is in your living room." We also covered the OpenBrick project a few months back.
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Now poached eggs everywhere can watch Pokemon!
We get signal!!
Thats not a brick, its a tentacle!
Okay, now that is definitely what I call a niche market. Heck, why not go all-out and also market it towards Brazilian families living in Slovenia?
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
What a concept.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
I hope that I don't open a VNC window with you around. You'll probally think that I opened a portal to the other computer.
Heck, if that sentence fragment isn't enough to send everyone running out to buy a Brick I don't know what is.
Trolling is a art,
"Turn on the Fun!"
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
In A.D. 2003 Broadcast was beginning. ....
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the boob tube
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
CaTV: How are you gentlemen !!
CaTV: All your channel are belong to us
CaTV: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
CaTV: You have no chance to watch make your time
CaTV: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zignal'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zignal'
Captain: For great reception
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I'm not entirely sure what that website sells but I know that I want to punch the crap out of it.
"Freedom of speech has always been the abstract red-headed stepchild of the Constitution"
-Suck
This page provides an overview of some typical Japanese TV shows:
* A game show in which a grandmother has to answer questions about pop culture in order to prevent her grandson from being catapulted into the air by a bungee machine.
* "Guess what's on your head!"- a game show in which contestants try to guess what type of insect or reptile is crawling around on the top of their heads.
* A show called Super Jockey in which people with products to promote (usually beautiful women) play a game where they have to change into a skimpy bikini before a curtain drops which will reveal them if they haven't finished changing, and then they have to sit in scalding hot water. For every second they manage to stay in the water, they are allowed to promote their product for one second
Yes, I wouldn't want to miss the latest in cruelty TV if I moved away...
;- )
Can you win this box in a contest?
You can't take the sky from me...
When I think of "TV Brick" it's usually in a different context. (replace hammer with brick) Generally after watching yet another Laci Peterson segment on CNN.
sulli
RTFJ.
So many possibilities squandered.
For instance, there should definately have been a crack about French authorities busting heads over the fact that this streaming Japanese content wasn't properly voiced-over in French, with Japanese subtitles... Preserving their culture, and all that.
**chuckle** French Authorities Busting Heads! Sometimes, I kill myself.
For those that would die defending it, Freedom
has a sweet taste that the protected will never know.
"Primarily targeted towards Japanese families living in France..."
Secondarily targeted towards slashdot readers with WAY too much time on their hands...
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Primarily targeted towards Japanese families living in France
Yeah, reading and following the setup and assembly instructions is gonna be no problem.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Hmm... so you say you might need to encode the video due to bandwidth limitations. Well, that throws out using straight X (what you're describing) (and, no, compressing the X protocol is not sufficient... it doesn't meet compression requirements AND it introduces latency for which you'd have to compensate).
So, we'll have to encode the video at the source and decode at the sink. Oh, and then there's audio. We gotta transport that, somehow, too... sending it in the raw would be silly, since bandwidth is still an issue. Well, we'll encode and decode that, too. And while we're at it, we might as well write some software to set up the transport pipe, enable the capture device, encoders, decoders, etc, etc...
Oh, wait, I've just re-invented the TV Brick...
Does it drop frames and skew time or could i expect to get all the siezures that the anime creators intended?
3. Pr0n/Underground Video - Watch what your wife and pets are doing while your at work. You sick bastard. I like it :)
I got a +5, Troll
Funny, being irretrievably AWAY from U.S. television is one of the things I like MOST about going overseas.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!