Get Your Broadcast TV Anywhere

circletimessquare writes "Ken Schaffer, who made his name inventing a wireless microphone and a satellite telephone service, has a new offering called TV2Me. It's basically MPEG-4, improved upon, that allows for what he calls 'best of class' streaming video over a normal broadband connection. Right now, his only clients are rich sports fanatics, but he eventually wants to make his technology as ubiquitous and as essential as TiVo is to some."

Comments

Streaming news from Russia

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally, some fair and balanced news.

Stand by for lawsuits

[LostCluster]

Hollywood isn't going to stand for this.

It's the reason why we have region-encoding on DVDs, DirecTV can only give the NYC and LA "locals" to people in the boonies, and ICraveTV didn't fly. The NFL and DirecTV make millions off of their Sunday Ticket package which is based on selling for hundreds of dollars a season the right to recieve games freely broadcasted in other parts of the USA.

Copyright owners are declaring boundries across which their content cannot move freely, and they're going to crush any technology that threatens to make it easy to break those lines.

It isn't a matter of getting TV..

[ackthpt]

It's a matter of TV carrying what you want to watch. I want to watch TV (sports in particular) from other countries, but thanks to NTSC/PAL and a lack of willingness by fatcats at cable companies (who believe that's not what the public wants: Self full-filling prophecy) it's not on the menu or ever likely to be.

Then there's still the sticky matter of not being allowed to watch a network station from outside the area your local affiliate owns.

Requirements

[RealProgrammer]

• Proprietary video card
• Proprietary software
• Desire to watch TV

That last one would mean I'd have to avert my eyes from Slashdot, however briefly. I can't see that happening anytime soon.