Where is the prior art on this... When was the first digital transmission of video. I know my company has not been in the digital boardcast before July 1992 (their first patent)
"Same thing with recording except there's no scientific process they can undertake to figure out how to choose the bands that will make a lot of money over bands that will lose money long run."
Not entirely true. There is an equation for Pop music, my friends who went to recording school learned it and can bang out a Hit sounding song in about 20 minutes. But then it all sounds the same, oh wait it pretty much does.
Lots of my friends are in bands, they run about $1,200 to record about 40 minutes including mastering and about $1,500 for the first run of 1000 cds...
"Is it real video on demand, where every user can select a show and watch it that instant, or is it like most systems where the show is broadcast on, say 12 channels, with each one starting 5 mins appart? If the later, it's not VOD. With real VOD, you have a private stream from the provider, which requires a massive server."
Yes, it is real VOD. Yes, each user gets a private stream to control and yes we do have massive servers. Actually they only take up about 4 racks.
TWC will be releasing DHCTs with PVR built in next year but we will be phasing this out for a central storage method. Yes, more servers and arrays then you can shake a finger out. They will be caching about 40 channels for a rolling 48 hours to start and then move up to more. You will be able to "save" programing for up to two weeks in a personail cache.
Currently TWC offers HBO, Cinemax, TMC, Showtime, Adult. Plus for free... BBC America, Comdey Central, Cartoon Network, HGTV, DIY, Golf, CNN, Food, and Bio.
I know my friends and I will keep going to movies until the prices become way unreasonable (>$12). What they need is more incentives for going to the movies... i.e. sell beer, double features,...
I know my employer is already broadcasting in HDTV, we carry one station HGTV (yay). We have a HDTV monitor ( a hi-end TV, not the kind you connect to your computer) in our head end and it looks really nice. What I find dispisable is that they use DVD or HDTV recordings on those TVs. NTSC on a HDTV is horrable.
Not a waste of time. Their are many districtes out there that are stuck on the MS track to hell. I interviewed for a school district sysadmin job and was turned down because I have more experiance admining *nix then MS Windows.
As far as hardware pickieness, I repaired an English teacher at my HS 's Kaypro. She had all her grades and stuff on 5.25" floppies. She regualerly backed up her floppies and even had an extra Kaypro in case her original one final bit it.
A good use for all those Linux user groups. I know we have three in my county and a group just for Admins too. Send them out to install and maintain systems. Good idea to get CIS/CE students on it too.
This question has been brought up all over this topic but I'll reply here. The education software I remember from HS (4 years ago) are the same ones I used at home, i.e. MS word, MS paint, MS... On the Macs we had hypercard and Organ Trail. Yes, there is a possablity that Linux may free up some funds for other uses.
My college has a program were we (the students) go to schools and repair and replace computers. We have been known on the occusion to install Linux or FreeBSD on some systems.
Education software for Linux
http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Scientific/Educati on.html
My companies headend is next to a pet cemetery. I work third shift, so there are only three people on our complex. When you go wondering around by yourself, you can hear things moving around on th roof and see things move past the windows...
There is a San Diego based company, whos mani business involes changing out Exchange E-mail systems for Sendmail. They had to roll their ow calendering program to work with Sendmail and Outlook. The don't know if they are going to Open Source the calendering program yet.
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Check that, I work for Time-Warner Cable
I work for TEC and I have RR also ... we have a speed test site set up http://www.discoversandiego.com/speed/
At my house with my locked modem, I get about 1.3 Mbps over are 802.11B it dropes to 760 Kbps.
Where is the prior art on this ... When was the first digital transmission of video. I know my company has not been in the digital boardcast before July 1992 (their first patent)
"Same thing with recording except there's no scientific process they can undertake to figure out how to choose the bands that will make a lot of money over bands that will lose money long run."
Not entirely true. There is an equation for Pop music, my friends who went to recording school learned it and can bang out a Hit sounding song in about 20 minutes. But then it all sounds the same, oh wait it pretty much does.
Lots of my friends are in bands, they run about $1,200 to record about 40 minutes including mastering and about $1,500 for the first run of 1000 cds ...
"Is it real video on demand, where every user can select a show and watch it that instant, or is it like most systems where the show is broadcast on, say 12 channels, with each one starting 5 mins appart? If the later, it's not VOD. With real VOD, you have a private stream from the provider, which requires a massive server."
... BBC America, Comdey Central, Cartoon Network, HGTV, DIY, Golf, CNN, Food, and Bio.
Yes, it is real VOD. Yes, each user gets a private stream to control and yes we do have massive servers. Actually they only take up about 4 racks.
TWC will be releasing DHCTs with PVR built in next year but we will be phasing this out for a central storage method. Yes, more servers and arrays then you can shake a finger out. They will be caching about 40 channels for a rolling 48 hours to start and then move up to more. You will be able to "save" programing for up to two weeks in a personail cache.
Currently TWC offers HBO, Cinemax, TMC, Showtime, Adult. Plus for free
I work for a cable company and we will soon be offering PVRs built in to our DHCTs ... then we will be offering a sever side PVR like system.
I metamod all about ecery day and I get mod points every week.
I know my friends and I will keep going to movies until the prices become way unreasonable (>$12). What they need is more incentives for going to the movies ... i.e. sell beer, double features, ...
I know my employer is already broadcasting in HDTV, we carry one station HGTV (yay). We have a HDTV monitor ( a hi-end TV, not the kind you connect to your computer) in our head end and it looks really nice. What I find dispisable is that they use DVD or HDTV recordings on those TVs. NTSC on a HDTV is horrable.
Not a waste of time. Their are many districtes out there that are stuck on the MS track to hell. I interviewed for a school district sysadmin job and was turned down because I have more experiance admining *nix then MS Windows.
As far as hardware pickieness, I repaired an English teacher at my HS 's Kaypro. She had all her grades and stuff on 5.25" floppies. She regualerly backed up her floppies and even had an extra Kaypro in case her original one final bit it.
A good use for all those Linux user groups. I know we have three in my county and a group just for Admins too. Send them out to install and maintain systems. Good idea to get CIS/CE students on it too.
This question has been brought up all over this topic but I'll reply here. The education software I remember from HS (4 years ago) are the same ones I used at home, i.e. MS word, MS paint, MS ... On the Macs we had hypercard and Organ Trail. Yes, there is a possablity that Linux may free up some funds for other uses.
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My college has a program were we (the students) go to schools and repair and replace computers. We have been known on the occusion to install Linux or FreeBSD on some systems.
Education software for Linux
http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Scientific/Educat
My companies headend is next to a pet cemetery. I work third shift, so there are only three people on our complex. When you go wondering around by yourself, you can hear things moving around on th roof and see things move past the windows ...
There is a San Diego based company, whos mani business involes changing out Exchange E-mail systems for Sendmail. They had to roll their ow calendering program to work with Sendmail and Outlook. The don't know if they are going to Open Source the calendering program yet.