Linux Gadgets: TVBrick.
An oldy, but a goody! Nexedi, a French company, produces the TVBrick.
The TVBrick is a Linux-based device derived from the OpenBrick project. What can the TVBrick do for you? It lets you watch your home TV channels from anywhere in the world over a high-speed Internet connection.
There are some caveats to the system, though. Users have to have at least a 256Kb upload capacity at home and even then the video is a choppy 9 frames per second.
Nexedi CEO Jean-Paul Smets said “the use of TVBrick appliances for private use within the same family is compatible with Copyright Law in Europe and in Japan. This is why Nexedi is selling TVBrick to families only, mainly Japanese. Also, in order to help our customers not to infringe on copyright, we implemented a password system to restrict access to members of the same family.”
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3 opinions for Linux Gadgets: TVBrick.
YC
Jan 29, 2006 at 2:59 am
There something even better called, “Orb”.
Check it out, http://orb.com
Jon
Jan 30, 2006 at 1:15 pm
It’s not better. Orb doesn’t run on Linux!
YC
Jan 31, 2006 at 9:38 am
That’s why it’s better… ;->
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