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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.
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.
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
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...
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!