Posted by Michael J. Mahon on 07/17/06 22:57

Randy S. wrote:
>
>> 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.

They need to learn to love "tizzyness"--there's going to be a lot
more where that came from!

Most Americans have a fair amount of respect for the law, but very
little respect for the MPAA and the music industry.

-michael

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