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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. Advertisers wont care by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thanks to new UK legislation that is threatening to allow product placement advertisers will be getting their crap pushed and 'content' creators will be getting their 20 pieces of silver no matter how you rebroadcast space cadets 97: the final farce... so why should they care?

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    1. Re:Advertisers wont care by Krach42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Because, same as I would be willing to watch German ads on TV just to get German TV, there is little point for the advertisers to advertise something that I can't buy here in the US. I mean, it works fine for big companies that sell under the same name there and here, like Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, and T-Mobile, but what about Beer commercials?

      And what about standards of decency? I saw naked boobies on a German television program... WON'T YOU THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN?!

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  2. i though about it by williamvergara · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You know, im from Ecuador and now im studying in Germany. But it piss me off, that german tv and german cable sucks. At my home i have espn and i can watch mostly all the games in want to watch and with the commentators i want to hear. Now, should i pay again the tv rights here in Germany AGAIN when i am already paying there in Ecuador?? It is true that not many people are in my position and tv channels and corporations will have to redesign their business (how can in example be narutos rights of tv lucrative, when everybody has already downloaded it via BT or in Germany the tv rights for Scrubs. Harder times awaits the tv business. Specially here in Germany

  3. Internet PVR by Buzz_Litebeer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I would like is someone to make a simple interface like media portal but for the internet.

    Whatever the media application is playing, regardless of how it is playing it, it will send the image and sound data over the net to some application.

    ALso allowing to change channels etc... essentially just a nice little web front end. I have a TV card at home and I want to view it over the internet. I figured out how to do it with windows media encoder but the process is a tad combersome.

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  4. grr.. "zomg casting!" by jigjigga · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is not new, I did it nearly 10 years ago with an old tv tuner and windows netmeeting. I set the tuner to the capture card, sound to the input, and boom I could broadcast video.

  5. Re:LOL @ football by sesshomaru · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Someone's never been to a Raider's game:

    Oakland crowds leave wake of debris after Super Bowl

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  6. Just use ORB by drsmack1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I already have someone in Germany (I am in the US) watching ball games and other TV programs live from my computer using Orb

    And yes, you can watch using linux...

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