Internet Televison Content Coming of Age 141
Thomas Hawk writes "The Washington Post has an article out this morning on the assortment of internet based TV choices that are popping up providing additional and competing content to the major studios. Most of these providers are operating more as content collectors or aggregators than actual content producers."
Re:FM from Internet Radio Recipe (Score:4, Informative)
Also, if you start running over the legal limit, you get multipath reception issues as a receiver hears multiple transmitters on the same frequency (from adjacent cells).
Computer in car retrieves content from house via 802.11b, then content is played from cache during commute. Easy enough.
Homechoice in the UK (Score:2, Informative)
Re:RSS + Divx = No More TV (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.torrentocracy.com/ [torrentocracy.com]
Re:CSPAN.org (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Don't forget Bittorrent! (Score:4, Informative)
Most of those TV episodes don't include commercials or originally aired on extended cable channels like HBO. Those original providers cannot be terribly thrilled about it.
Re:there's some good content out there (Score:2, Informative)
(I haven't quite decided if this is a good thing yet...)
Free providers (Score:5, Informative)
For a list of worldwide stations - Smart Digital Network [smartstreams.com]
America Free TV [americafree.tv]
Streaming content... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Homechoice in the UK (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Don't forget Bittorrent! (Score:4, Informative)
Due to the Sony v Universal case in 1984 (also known as the Betamax decision), it is LEGAL for someone to own one copy of an episode that was on the public airwaves (CBS, ABC, NBC, etc) for the purposes of "timeshifting" (what its called now). You are also allowed to give out a copy of your copy to someone who missed the show. This makes www.tvtorrents.net COMPLETELY LEGAL, even without commercials. (as they only have local channel shows).
Now, of course, shows on HBO or Discovery Channel are not as legal.