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PC FM Tuner Streamed Over a LAN?
ooglek asks: "FM radio seems to be falling out of favor, with many stations putting their streams online. Unfortunately, many choose bad codecs and low bandwidth feeds, which make them practically unappealing. There seem to be a fair number of PCI-based TV Tuner cards that come with a built in FM receiver, and I'm interested in what it might take to stream my local FM stations to the Windows, Unix and Mac boxes in my house over my LAN, as well as my TiVo and Slim Devices SqueezeBox. Is this merely a pipe-dream?"
Disney was ad-free, now its not. AMC was ad free, now its not. Except for the handful of movie channels, the vast majority of cable channels (cable-only, non-broadcast) are loaded with commercials. You pay to get them, and they have commercials.
Even with satellite radio, not all of the stations are commercial free.
You pay to go see movies, and they have more and more product placement.
Make no mistake - 95% of media companies plans for new revenue streams involve getting people to pay more for what they already have.
1. eliminate fair-use
2. introduce new tech regularly to obsolete old, requiring you to re-buy everything
3. DRM, so you have to buy the same thing repeatedly for different devices.
4. DRM introduced to over the air broadcasts so you cant record even though the law permits it
5. increases in length of copyright of already produced works - stealing from public domain so they can charge long for work created in 1929
4. reinterpretation of copyright law to disallow fair use of music snippets even a fraction of a second long - people have to pay to sample a simple "bleep."
5. locking down cell phones plus #4, so you have to buy the 3 seconds of your favorite tune for a buck a second for a ringtone rather than xfering it yourself.
6. self-destructing DVDs
7. fighting google's indexing of books (even though it wouldnt enable you to read the whole thing) because publishers plan to introduce a pay-per-page program of their own.
8. attempts to ban sales of used CDs and books.
The list goes on and on. The head of the RIAA even admitted several years ago that their goal is pay-per-play - you will no longer buy an album, you will pay every single time you listen to a song.
EVERYTHING is moving towards a subscription-based model, simply because it increases the eventual cost to consumers a hundredfold, yet is relatively easy to pass off to consumers.
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