Thursday, April 05, 2007
New IPTV Set Top Boxes Soon to Released
I've just had a demo of the new IPTV set top boxes. These mean that all you lucky people will all soon be able to watch 18 Doughty Street through your own television rather than on a computer screen. The picture quality is incredible. Apparently they will be available through PC World and other outlets within a couple of months and be priced at around £100.
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If you ever doubted that the recent BBC licence fee renewal was the last one, this is the proof.
Do you have any technical details?
I use a computer as Sky+ type setup hooke dup to my TV, it would be nice to get the higher quality streams on there, do you know what's being used to stream to these IPTVs?
Not another box. Soon we are going to need a box to manage all the other boxes: freeview, Sky, Apple TV, video recorder, DVD player, wi-fi router and hard driver recorder. No offence old chap but I shall carry on with 18DS via the net. It is web tele after all.
How about providing video content for download to play through Apple's TV (which is out now) or on an iPod? Another reason to have gone with QuickTime.
“The picture quality is incredible” . . . but the sound quality will be touch and go as usual ;-)
Is this another plot you have hatched up to get on mainstream TV?
Whatever will they come up with next?
..... or indeed watch it for the first time if, like me, you have steam-powered dial up.
how long does it take to warm the valves up?
does this IPTV report comprehensive prove that global warming is entirely the fault of Guardian readers talking shite?
Bet there won't be subtitles....?
One of my main reasons for finally going onto wi-fi at home was so that I could keep up with 18DS on my laptop.
There's still something pleasantly subversive about watching TV on your computer.
£100 a pop at PC World? Hmm...form an orderly queue, please...
£100? Ouch. I've been watching internet content via the Mac on the TV for a year or so. We even ditched the DVD player and watch them from the Mac with no loss of quality. I don't want more boxes, I want less!
The BBC state broadcaster is lobbying for a TVL for every piece of live TV receiving equipment in each household (as is the case in Germany).
The more gizmo's, more money for auntie to waste....Fantastic
anon @ 4:54
I think you will find that TVL say that you need a license if you use any equipment to receive broadcasts of whatever nature including internet broadcasts, if they are received at about the same time that they are transmitted.
...and it's nice to see that one of Gordon's best friends (Sir Michael Lyons) is the new Chairman of the BBC.
This is the man who:
(a) admits to watching very little TV - he prefers R4.
(b) came up with the idea of two extra Council Tax bands.
(c) came up with the idea of taxing household rubbish.
I think we can all work out which direction he will be leading the BBC, can't we?
Memo to D Cameron: privatise the BBC in your first term of office and let's see how long this sinecure for lefties lasts in the real world.
No I really don't want yet another channel on my box. Isn't the whole beauty of having 18DS on line that you can take it anywhere on your wireless notebook?
I tend to watch it whilst doing other things (work is hardly the word). Picture quality is not particularly important - except that it would no doubt allow us to see just how beautiful you really are, Iain.
What's good about the channel is the Vox Pop and Location stuff. It looks amateur and therefore credible. If you get too professional you'll end up with the same reputation for veracity as the BBC...
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