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- August 12, 2008 – 9:57 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Names like Comcast, Verizon, SBC, RoadRunner, Cox, Charter – control the vast majority of the ‘last mile’ internet running into many homes. A fact of today’s economy in the United States is that in any particular geographic area, you only have a handful of providers that can provide high-speed access to the internet. For example, in the Philadelphia region there are only 2 serious options – Verizon and Comcast. The reason for this is that being able to provide a high speed access line to a home involves running a LOT of wire or fiber – and this has an enormous investment in capital and technology. Only large companies have the resources available to provide these services and keep them stable. They also will buy many smaller companies that pop up – both for their technology or because it also eliminates some of the competition. Comcast has done this in….
Categories: Other Technology,Social Media,Software,Television
Tagged: Cable TV, choice, Federal Communications Commission, internet bandwidth, internet connection, internet service, ISP, net neutrality, p2p, Point protocol, Television, Television Company, United States
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- February 17, 2008 – 1:33 am
- Author:
- By Dave
I started writing for MakeUseOf, which is a blog for web application and other free, useful programs! I just posted an article on Ditching your cable company with free, legal alternatives. Summary: Ditching your cable company has never been more viable than it is today. The rise of online, streaming TV shows allows you to save on one of the most expensive household bills if you are willing to sacrifice a bit of the convenience of having either a cable box or DVR. The main question you will need to ask yourself is what shows you actually enjoy watching. Several name brand shows are now available online in free, ad supported formats; if your particular shows are not available then you may be stuck with your cable company, at least for now. More and more shows are always coming online, so keep checking back to see if your favorite show….
Categories: Reviews,Site Updates,Television
Tagged: Ditch Your Cable Company, web application
- Published:
- August 24, 2007 – 2:42 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
This neat – one of my favorite products, BeyondTV, records television (standard or HD) but it is only a Windows program. You can use BeyondTV Link to play video on any other PC on the local network (because of bandwidth constraints – if you want to view over the internet, use the BeyondTV Web Interface or Orb) Your TV, both live and recorder, could also be done using Orb; however Orb lacks the nice interface BeyondTV Link has. I’ve been contemplating moving to MaxOS X for my next Laptop purchase; this plus VMWare Fusion really makes it easy to switch over to a Mac for us Windows users.
Categories: Other Technology,Television
Tagged: favorite products, Web Interface
- Published:
- August 1, 2007 – 8:56 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Windows Mobile 5 did not seem to have an easy way to have YouTube mobile videos (3gp files streaming over rtsp protocol) play to your phone. However with Windows Mobile 6 Professional and HTC’s “StreamingPlayer” software – playing YouTube Mobile videos, at least through PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) is easy. If you don’t have HTC’s StreamingPlayer – check here. After installing the software, you may also need to modify your registry in order to allow rtsp streams to be opened by the player. Here is a link to the registry entries you need to make – again courtesy of XDA-Developer’s forum. Save the above text to a .reg file, and import to your device (for example, using RegEdit for WM6) Hopefully if all went well – when you visit http://m.youtube.com, and click play video, the HTC player will launch and play the video. After the video is done the player….
Categories: Cell Phones,Configurations,Television,Windows Mobile
Tagged: Internet Explorer, streaming video, wireless account, YouTube
- Published:
- June 26, 2007 – 3:28 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Just received an invite for VeohTV Private Beta! Thanks for your interest in the VeohTV beta! VeohTV is a free specialized video browser that turns online video into Internet Television. Watch video from thousands of web sites, in one easy-to-use full screen application. Watch streaming video from major television networks such as Fox and CBS, to independently-produced content available on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Veoh.com and MySpace. VeohTV makes watching Internet video as simple as watching television – navigate with a keyboard and mouse or use a PC remote control. VeohTV is like a free DVR for web video. Watch video on-demand or record it to your hard drive to watch later. You can watch your favorite shows in full-screen on your PC, or connect your PC to your television. Installation and Setup Instructions: 1. Go to: VeohTV beta download page 2. Select the Download button and save….
Categories: Television
Tagged: advertising revenue, Beta Invitation Just, CBS, Experience Internet Television, Google, HDTV, internet plans, Internet Television, Internet video, streaming video, television networks, ultra high speed networks, United States, usually using technologies, Verizon, Viacom, video streaming services, Web TV outfits, web video, YouTube
