Posted by Randy S. on 07/17/06 19:23

> 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.
>
> 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.

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.

Randy S.

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