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Posted by JEDIDIAH on 07/17/06 20:20
On 2006-07-17, Randy S. <randys@nospam.net> wrote:
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>> Agreed. It's long overdue for companies to follow a model similar
>> to MythTV, WinMCE or the various MP3 headends out there and a tiny diskless
>> satellite player device serviced by some centralized media server.
>>
>> They could get creative about it and even do things like use coax
>> for the bulk transport. This is just audio and video we're talking about here.
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>> The headends could make short simple requests over the wifi and you
>> could have a channel dedicated to each micro-reciever. They could even encrypt
>> it if they wanted to so long as the thin clients were available.
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> Not a bad idea, but the media providers would probably have a cow.
> They're already in a tizzy about media centers as it is.
Scrambled video from the curb to the settop box is already old hat.
If you just made that video source internal, you really wouldn't be changing
much. It wouldn't be anymore objectionable than a Tivo already is.
Of course actually allowing and encouraging fully legitimate devices
such as these are the only real defense that Hollywood has. They're just too
STUPID to realize it. You can either control the tech, or not control it.
Supression just isn't going to happen.
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