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Internet Televison Content Coming of Age
Thomas Hawk writes "The Washington Post has an article out this morning on the assortment of internet based TV choices that are popping up providing additional and competing content to the major studios. Most of these providers are operating more as content collectors or aggregators than actual content producers."
This has been disproven millions of times. The true legal broadcast power limits are measured in microvolts at a distance from the antenna. So Mr. Microphone is about the legal limit.
Also, if you start running over the legal limit, you get multipath reception issues as a receiver hears multiple transmitters on the same frequency (from adjacent cells).
Computer in car retrieves content from house via 802.11b, then content is played from cache during commute. Easy enough.
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A similar service has been available in London (not sure about the rest of the uk) for several years http://www.homechoice.co.uk/ homechoice offers TV, movies etc on demand as well as 512 or 1mb broadband for about £20-30/month - us$30-45 month. It also offers movies and sport from the UKs biggest satellite tv network Sky.
And the best place to see this RSS + Divx in action?
http://www.torrentocracy.com/
I post links to stuff here
They also show real debates when they happen... like the Green/Libertarian debate. This was also online, albeit in Real format. -Paul
Yeah and Suprnova has a ton too but that doesn't mean it's legal (at least here in the States).
Most of those TV episodes don't include commercials or originally aired on extended cable channels like HBO. Those original providers cannot be terribly thrilled about it.
(I haven't quite decided if this is a good thing yet...)
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
For a list of worldwide stations - Smart Digital Network
America Free TV
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
These sites also offer some television content but mostly old stuff (very old). They have streaming movies which does not require you to download onto a set top device and then view on your tv. The sites are http://www.cinemanow.com/ http://www.movieflix.com/ and http://www.ifilm.com/. They have free and subscription content.
Most of those TV episodes don't include commercials or originally aired on extended cable channels like HBO. Those original providers cannot be terribly thrilled about it.
Due to the Sony v Universal case in 1984 (also known as the Betamax decision), it is LEGAL for someone to own one copy of an episode that was on the public airwaves (CBS, ABC, NBC, etc) for the purposes of "timeshifting" (what its called now). You are also allowed to give out a copy of your copy to someone who missed the show. This makes www.tvtorrents.net COMPLETELY LEGAL, even without commercials. (as they only have local channel shows).
Now, of course, shows on HBO or Discovery Channel are not as legal.
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