I think the device will have networking built in, but for recording there will be legal/copyright issues. This will likely prevent you from recording a movie and taking it off of the box. You will probably only be able to play it back on the box that recorded it.
>if you have a very fat pipe, what about sending a >set of internet pages to all the home users and >have some kind of mechanism on the box that says >which pages/sites to cache.
I think that is kind of the idea. Lots of pages are coming down from the satellite, your box caches some part of them based on your preferences
If this linux box were on a home-lan then perhaps all home-lan users would have access to the cache.
Email would be pretty much the same way. Your box would grab your email coming down off the satellite and then report back to a central server that it got it.
One of the things I'm trying to understand (I've only been here for a week) is who the target audience for this box will be. I would love to have an open-architecture box where others could add their components. Maybe just leave a PCMCIA slot open ? (Plug in a new card, download the driver from the satellite, insmod...) But if we are targeting the Web TV crowd that's a different story. I know the techincal path I'd prefer...
Another thing I forgot to mention is that our Linux box will have the capability to save the MPEG 2 (HDTV!) datastream off to disk (or perhaps stream it across the home network to other PC's/devices). You'll also be able to "pause" an off-the-air show and the video will be spooled off to disk.
We'll need to write device drivers for the various components. The most interesting will be the driver for the MPEG 2 HDTV device. I'm trying to understand how this device should fit into the existing Video For Linux standard. Anyone have any thoughts ?
I'm a bit biased (I now work for Echostar) but I signed up for Dish TV long before I started work here. The programming options seemed to be better. With Direct TV you had to select from two different companies for channels and they only came in "packages". So if you wanted channel "A" and channel "B" you might have to order one channel package from USSB and another channel package from the other company (I forget the name).
But the best reason to support Echostar and Dish TV is why I signed on. We are starting a project to put Linux on our set-top boxes. We already have a Web TV/Windows CE box, but we obviously don't want to rely only on Microsoft.
So I throw a question back at the Slashdot readers, What would you want to see in a Linux based set-top satellite receiver ? We are considering a Web TV type of operation with a local cache fed via our very fat satellite pipe. Home-networking is another option. We will have a browser on the box of course (Mozilla?). Anyone have any thoughts on how to utilize a very fat pipe comming in, but a thin pipe going out ? We haven't yet decided on a CPU. Anyone have any thoughts on that ? This is going to be a very cool project and I'm looking forward to getting it on-line !
Anyone remember who was the "inventor" of Spread Spectrum ? None other than the 40's movie star Heddy Lamar ! She came up with the idea as a way of making radio control of torpedos un-jammable during WWII, but the technology wasn't quite feasable at the time.
> Democrats == Control our money > Republicans == Control our morals
Hmmm... Wasn't it Tipper Gore the VP's wife who formed the organization to censor "filthy" songs? Looks like the Dem's want to control our morals as well.
Democrats = Big Government Republicans = Smaller Government
I would guess that the vast majority of Slashdotters would be for less government.
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> now, what do you thinks gonna happen when > several hundred million people start speaking to >each other on the internet? >im just waiting for the next "Shakespeare"
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Where's Gary Larson and The Far Side when you need him!
Internally the box will be PCI based, but I don't think there will be any open slots...
I think the device will have networking built in, but for recording there will be legal/copyright issues. This will likely prevent you from recording a movie and taking it off of the box. You will probably only be able to play it back on the box that recorded it.
>if you have a very fat pipe, what about sending a
>set of internet pages to all the home users and
>have some kind of mechanism on the box that says
>which pages/sites to cache.
I think that is kind of the idea. Lots of pages are coming down from the satellite, your box caches some part of them based on your preferences
If this linux box were on a home-lan then perhaps all home-lan users would have access to the cache.
Email would be pretty much the same way. Your box would grab your email coming down off the satellite and then report back to a central server that it got it.
One of the things I'm trying to understand (I've only been here for a week) is who the target audience for this box will be. I would love to have an open-architecture box where others could add their components. Maybe just leave a PCMCIA slot open ? (Plug in a new card, download the driver from the satellite, insmod...) But if we are targeting the Web TV crowd that's a different story. I know the techincal path I'd prefer...
Another thing I forgot to mention is that our Linux box will have the capability to save the MPEG 2 (HDTV!) datastream off to disk (or perhaps stream it across the home network to other PC's/devices). You'll also be able to "pause" an off-the-air show and the video will be spooled off to disk.
We'll need to write device drivers for the various components. The most interesting will be the driver for the MPEG 2 HDTV device. I'm trying to understand how this device should fit into the existing Video For Linux standard. Anyone have any thoughts ?
I'm a bit biased (I now work for Echostar) but I signed up for Dish TV long before I started work here. The programming options seemed to be better. With Direct TV you had to select from two different companies for channels and they only came in "packages". So if you wanted channel "A" and channel "B" you might have to order one channel package from USSB and another channel package from the other company (I forget the name).
But the best reason to support Echostar and Dish TV is why I signed on. We are starting a project to put Linux on our set-top boxes. We already have a Web TV/Windows CE box, but we obviously don't want to rely only on Microsoft.
So I throw a question back at the Slashdot readers, What would you want to see in a Linux based set-top satellite receiver ? We are considering a Web TV type of operation with a local cache fed via our very fat satellite pipe. Home-networking is another option. We will have a browser on the box of course (Mozilla?). Anyone have any thoughts on how to utilize a very fat pipe comming in, but a thin pipe going out ? We haven't yet decided on a CPU. Anyone have any thoughts on that ? This is going to be a very cool project and I'm looking forward to getting it on-line !
My favorite on Altavista is NEAR e.g.
( brown NEAR bear ) AND ( NOT zoo )
I don't know of any other engine that has a NEAR capability
Anyone remember who was the "inventor" of Spread Spectrum ? None other than the 40's movie star Heddy Lamar ! She came up with the idea as a way of making radio control of torpedos un-jammable during WWII, but the technology wasn't quite feasable at the time.
>Here's another generalization:
> Democrats == Control our money
> Republicans == Control our morals
Hmmm... Wasn't it Tipper Gore the VP's wife who formed the organization to censor "filthy" songs? Looks like the Dem's want to control our morals as well.
Yep, I'm one too. Here's a generalization :
Democrats = Big Government
Republicans = Smaller Government
I would guess that the vast majority of Slashdotters would be for less government.
> now, what do you thinks gonna happen when
:-)
> several hundred million people start speaking to
>each other on the internet?
>im just waiting for the next "Shakespeare"
My guess is that you won't be writing it
The 80's ? I seem to recall getting my first unit in the mid 70's. It still works today....