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Up Next... Skypecasting

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the information-routes-around-problems dept.

Davis Freeberg submitted linkage to a short story talking about Skypecasting Television. Essentially using Skype and Yahoo Messenger to rebroadcast video to the internet. While it isn't a PVR, it circumvents the regionally oriented programming that prevents the UK from watching our "Football" or us from getting Dr Who. It also raises yet another battlefront the content owners will need to contend with in the upcoming years.

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  1. I've been doing this for a while... by ZackSchil · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had a system set up two years using Applescripts, PHP, iChat AV, and a TV tuner to broadcast TV over the internet to any iChat or AIM-equipped machine. It used a php script to change channels, etc. It was pretty great but now that I'm at college rather than boarding school, it's much easier to just use the cable in my room here.

  2. Re:This Ain't Yer Gran's PVR by Krach42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    No no no no... he means AMERICAN football in the UK.

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    I am unamerican, and proud of it!
  3. Re:OT: Re:This Ain't Yer Gran's PVR by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Informative
    Links please?

    Check the footy newsgroups, a few examples:

    • alt.sports.soccer.*
    • uk.sport.football.clubs.*
    • alt.sports.spurs
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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar