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On 4/27/2010 3:02 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> When do you think that day will be?
>>
>> Not only is it here. It's a commodity.
>>
>> http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevices
>
> I don't follow.
Whats not to follow? They stream movies directly from the internet
(albeit at SD resolutions ..)
--
~Mike
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>>>> When do you think that day will be?
>>>
>>> Not only is it here. It's a commodity.
>>>
>>> http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevices
>>
>> I don't follow.
>
> Whats not to follow? They stream movies directly from the internet
> (albeit at SD resolutions ..)
Presumably this only actually works if you have a suitably fast Internet
connection though?
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>>>> When do you think that day will be?
>>>
>>> Not only is it here. It's a commodity.
>>>
>>> http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevices
>>
>> I don't follow.
>
> Whats not to follow? They stream movies directly from the internet
> (albeit at SD resolutions ..)
Of course there is the SlingBox too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox
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scott wrote:
> Of course there is the SlingBox too:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox
Again, that's all very nice. But unless you have insane levels of
bandwidth available, it's not going to work.
There's nothing theoretically difficult about sending video data over
the Internet. The problem is the bandwidth.
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:18:21 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
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> There's nothing theoretically difficult about sending video data over
> the Internet. The problem is the bandwidth.
You seem to be missing the fact that a lot of people have had the
necessary bandwidth for years.
--
FE
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>> There's nothing theoretically difficult about sending video data over
>> the Internet. The problem is the bandwidth.
>
> You seem to be missing the fact that a lot of people have had the
> necessary bandwidth for years.
Hmm, interesting. Where I live, most people have between 2 Mbit/sec and
8 Mbit/sec. (I gather that until ADSL2 is deployed, you can't exceed 8
Mbit/sec...)
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Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> Ethernet speakers?
Does a Media Center Extender count? ;-)
Seriously, I don't have ethernet *everywhere*. I couldn't do surround-sound
speakers over ethernet. Wireless maybe, but not ethernet.
I told them to put an ethernet wire from the closet to each phone jack. I
should have said from the closet to each cable TV box as well.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> scott wrote:
>>> Anyway, there are also compression algorithms that are a lot more
>>> efficient than the one used on DVDs. So in theory you could get DVD
>>> quality with a lot less than 9 MBit/s if you use a better compression
>>> algorithm.
>
>> Indeed. A 10:1 improvement in compression is easily attainable without
>> noticable loss compared to DVD compression anyway.
>
> 10 times smaller than MPEG-2 with the same visual quality? Now that,
> I think, would be quite hard.
Hmm. Rethinking, 6:1 or so. Basically, you can fit a DVD onto a CD without
really comprimising the signal. And remember that when they make DVDs, they
don't necessarily squeeze it as small as possible. They squeeze it as much
as necessary to make it fit on the disk, even if they could compress it more.
I misthought. It's more like 6:1. I was confusing Blu->DVD instead of
DVD->CD or something.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Invisible wrote:
>>>>> When do you think that day will be?
>>>>
>>>> Not only is it here. It's a commodity.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevices
>>>
>>> I don't follow.
>>
>> Whats not to follow? They stream movies directly from the internet
>> (albeit at SD resolutions ..)
>
> Presumably this only actually works if you have a suitably fast Internet
> connection though?
No, it works great over dial-up too. You should try it.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.
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Bill Pragnell escreveu:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Because, say, games at full HD may have to cut geometry or frame rate
>>> here and there to fit comfortably?
>> What do TV resolutions have to do with computers? You connect a computer
>> to a monitor, not a TV.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_console
LOL
seems like Andrew still got some 30 years ahead to fully get to grips
with the real world...
--
a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9
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