Ultimate AV: Hot Streaming HDTV
I personally think that MPEG-4 compression would be better suited for streaming of HDTV but the possibility that we might soon have the capability to stream HDTV via DSL is astonishing.
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The Broadcast Flag, She Is Dead : Gizmodo
Maybe it shouldn't -- but it kinda surprises me how quickly this saga seems to be coming to resolution, but the broadcast flag appears to be dead for good. And we have a republican from Texas to thank?
TV Executives couldn't care less about Consumers
Edward Felton (Freedom to Tinker) has a blog entry about what the Television Network executives have to say about the Broadcast Flag, and how it can negatively impact device compatibility. To sum it up, Rick Lane, vice president of government affairs at News Corp. said: "Compatibility is not a goal". His comment was seconded by NBC Universal's Senior Counsel for Government Relations Alec French. From Ed Feltons blog:
Brad Ideas: We strike down the broadcast flag!
Happy Happy day! As Brad Templeton writes:
Brad Ideas: We strike down the broadcast flag!
On both a personal and professional note, I am happy to report that the federal courts have unanimously ruled to strike down the FCC's broadcast flag (that's a PDF) due to our lawsuit against them.
Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags: Broadcast Flag: D.C. Circuit Asks About Standing
Wendy Seltzer (fellow MythTV HD user, and lawyer working with the EFF) has posted a bit about some progress they're making against the implementation of the Broadcast Flag.
Link: Wendy's Blog
Public Knowledge leading a lawsuit to fight the Broadcast Flag
With the deadline for the mandatory compliance with the broadcast flag looming, Public Knowledge is filing a lawsuit fighting the flag.
The end of PVR's?
Stand up and take a bow Telesales Broadband (UK Broadband company), the company is investing £20 million in the development of TV-on-demand and personal video recorder (PVR) services in 2005. This appears to be a first step in TV-on-demand.
New HD-3000
A few friends and I have taken a leap. We are putting together an order of 8 HD-3000 High Definition recording cards before the famous Broadcast Flag stuff becomes Law (June?).
WishTV from Brad Templeton
From Brad Templeton's weblog: Brad Ideas: Changing the nature of TV again
He has written a perl script to create a wishlist for MythTV.
It is a great idea, and has far more features and functionality than the 'WishList' feature of TiVo. I haven't tried it out yet, but I'd be interested to use it. My only critique of the concept in general, is that I would now have two places to manage my programming needs (MythTV's guide, and WishTV).
Automating commercial cutting
One of the nice features of mythtv is that it can do commercial detection, and from that, build a cutlist. My biggest problem, and what kept me from using this feature was that I thought you had to use the user interface to do this. Alas, I have found that indeed there is a command line way to generate the cutlist. Using mythcommflag -f <filename> you can create the commercial flags, the coming back and using mythcommflag --blanks -f give me the cutlist.