Far be it from me to criticize someone for meandering in an article, but somewhere inside this ramble from Bob-X Cringely is an impressed review of TV2ME, one of the new streaming television services being promoted as a way to send your home programming to your laptop over the internet. Although he was checking it out in a closed environment in the inventor’s home, he came away very impressed—it was almost indistinguishable from broadcast television even with just a 384kbp/s stream.
Considering how poorly Sony’s Location Free streaming system has been reviewing, I think I’ll believe it when I see it. There is a future there, though, and I hope someone has figured out a slick way to smash the signal on the hardware compression side of things, but who knows. What interests me more is a way to divert that stream into a multicast-type set up, so that not only can I watch my TV at home, but so can anyone else who would like to throw some of their bandwidth at it (and that I allow, of course). TV2US, I guess.
Come to Daddy [PBS via DigitalMediaThoughts]
