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SeattleWireless TV Broadcasts Again

Posted by Hemos on from the pull-it-down-from-the-skies dept.

adpowers writes "After a month long hiatus, SeattleWireless TV is back. This break allowed them time to include footage from August's Wireless Field Day. The episode also includes a how-to for making a BiQuad antenna and an interview with SeattleWireless founder Matt Westervelt about how SW is different from other community wireless networks. You can download an MPEG version with BitTorrent. Windows Media and Real Media versions are available on the website."

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  1. Back when I was a kid by GMontag · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in the olden-days all of our TV channels came to us via wireless. It was a great improvement having moving pictures to go with the sound.

    Now we have the cable, like everybody else, but it doesn't sound like you youngsters know that there was TV before the cable.

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  2. Amazing! by BallPeenHammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wireless TV! What will they think of next? Perhaps wireless radio!

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  3. broadcast...? or better? by certron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess for it to be a real broadcast, it would have to be on at a certain time, and have to have real people 'tuning in' to see it. In this case, it is more of a video press release/news program.

    Don't get me wrong, this is pretty cool in itself, but I was a little disappointed when reality reminded me that this wasn't some multicast video streaming thingie, with a program being available almost simultaneously over all nodes in the network. (Although, a sniffer-based audio/video player could be kinda cool, too, and actually be like a real broadcast, with lots of little repeaters...)

    Then again, traditional time-based network shows (or informative / documentary shows) may be on the way out, and this is, in fact, a future video structure.

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  4. Please leave Bittorrent windows open by Robotron2084 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the obligatory post to remind people:

    Please leave Bittorrent windows open so that others can easily download the file. Seattle Wireless is doing their best to cope with /. effect. Leaving the BT windows open helps reduce the server load on their computers, and improve performance for others.