We do a lot of work with PBS here, they seem to be really receptive to new technology. They also seem to have access to different kinds of grants to pay for it. In the aftermath of Katrina, some PBS stations in the area where still broadcasting where other forms of communcation went dead. Now no one may be watching Mr. Rogers, but you are still able to send large amounts of data to mobile command centers and vehicles. State and Federal emergency management folks are extremely interested in this. The cost per receiver is relatively cheap and it scales well.
Yes, its short-sighted but maybe thats why they are unloading these boxes at $50 now.
From Dotcast "dNTSC® allows broadcasters to cost-effectively and reliably distribute large volumes of digital data using existing commercial television broadcasting infrastructures. Dotcast uses its technology to insert a broadband digital data signal inside the analog television broadcast signal and transmit it in a manner that is invisible to the television viewer."
I didnt know my computer had and AGB port....and gigabit Ethernet that comes with new Macs. Apple tossed in an alphabet soup of hardware standards: PCI, AGB, USB, FireWire, IDE, SCSI, and so on--all supported.
this is my other favorite..i stopped reading after this.
If it needs to be recompiled, it's not really compatible, right?
so call it a half truth maybe? I wonder how much work it takes to get stuff to compile on os x
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We do a lot of work with PBS here, they seem to be really receptive to new technology. They also seem to have access to different kinds of grants to pay for it. In the aftermath of Katrina, some PBS stations in the area where still broadcasting where other forms of communcation went dead. Now no one may be watching Mr. Rogers, but you are still able to send large amounts of data to mobile command centers and vehicles. State and Federal emergency management folks are extremely interested in this. The cost per receiver is relatively cheap and it scales well.
Yes, its short-sighted but maybe thats why they are unloading these boxes at $50 now.
From Dotcast
"dNTSC® allows broadcasters to cost-effectively and reliably distribute large volumes of digital data using existing commercial television broadcasting infrastructures. Dotcast uses its technology to insert a broadband digital data signal inside the analog television broadcast signal and transmit it in a manner that is invisible to the television viewer."
They are NTSC tuners, well Dotcast names them "DNTSC".
FYI, MovieBeam is all over analog. The technology comes from a company named Dotcast, which markets that they can achieve 3.9Mbps.
I didnt know my computer had and AGB port. ...and gigabit Ethernet that comes with new Macs. Apple tossed in an alphabet soup of hardware standards: PCI, AGB, USB, FireWire, IDE, SCSI, and so on--all supported.
this is my other favorite..i stopped reading after this.
If it needs to be recompiled, it's not really compatible, right?
so call it a half truth maybe? I wonder how much work it takes to get stuff to compile on os x