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TV Brick - Open Source TV Streaming?

Posted by simoniker on from the swap-channels-with-friends-in-other-countries dept.

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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  1. do as the locals do by pytheron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This strikes me much the same as groups of American students in Europe bee-lining towards the golden arches and huddling there until it's time to go back to the hotel/hostel.. it would be nice if people living in a foreign culture made an effort to integrate, rather than creating a mini-home from home. I can't imagine the expat community miss those wacky game shows too much.

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  2. Re:Limited value? by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have a lot to learn about trolling, young one. This effort gets a grade of "W", for Weak.

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  3. Re:some more info by fputs(shit,+slashdot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Compile with -Wall for instant beowulf satisfaction?

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