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June 16, 2005

October 18, 2004: the day broadcast TV died?

[TV Squad] Another alternative are companies that stream content for fee, which I would also be willing to do if the price point was right (I would pay $2 / episode for a show I liked in HDTV quality if it meant I did not have to buy the DVD or pay for premium cable or satellite services). Though this does admittedly potentially take out the "middle man" ie broadcat networks.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Longhorn.mvps.org] Mark Salloway's MCE Blog: IE Team Blog:. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx ... The NVIDIA® DVD Decoder combines the industry’s highest quality DVD and MPEG-2 ...

[Complicationsensue.blogspot.com] Complications Ensue: The Crafty TV and Screenwriting Blog: Semi-scripted TV is definitely affecting fully scripted TV. Just look at mockumentary-style shows like Trailer Park Boys, which use all the moves and editing techniques of "reality TV." Or, to put it another way, reality TV has shown producers just how little production value they need if the characters and the action is compelling enough. (Some claim Arrested Development is heavily RTV influenced, but I don't see it.

[Thepete.com] ThePete.Com » Blog Archive » NON-IE BROWSER SECURITY HOLE: by TheUSGov. In short, any story about any country can in theory fit here if it’s not already represented.">“Threats” to “US” (7)

[Windowssecrets.com] Is Firefox still safer than IE?: For businesses, Windows IT Pro Magazine's April 2005 issue gave its Editors' Choice to CounterSpy Enterprise, a version of the program that adds centralized management features. CounterSpy received a rating of 4.0 out of a possible 5.0, losing a point largely for omitting support for Windows 9x clients. Other business products tested were eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware Corporate Edition (3.5), DynaComm i:scan (3.0), Omniquad Antispy Enterprise Edition (3.0), and SpyCatcher Enterprise (2.0).

[Blogmaverick.com] HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future - Blog Maverick - www ...: Most plebs don't even realize that their 3M/384k cable/DSL is not only pathetically slow, but that by being asynchronous - it cripples the potential for really good workarounds with limited bandwidth (e.g. p2p is crippled severely in asynchronous networks). That said, even with affordable 'high speed' networks, the like of which you could build yourself at home (since gigabit switches are now under $100 a pop) and maybe link with your neighbours, or more likely - move to Japan and subscribe to a 100Mbps fiber ISP (e.g.

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Posted at June 16, 2005 10:01 AM

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