.tv LocationFree TV - Just released by Sony - Must read!

[.Mike]

I have just read the following article in this months New Scientist:

Watch your favourite programmes wherever you are in the world, by connecting a laptop PC to your TV tuner at home via the internet
Worried about missing the climax of Big Brother when you go abroad on holiday? Then you'll like a system unveiled last week that allows you to watch your favourite television programmes wherever you are in the world. Called Locationfree, it uses the internet to connect a laptop PC to your TV tuner back home.

At the heart of Locationfree, which Sony is launching this month in Japan and the US, is a set-top box the size of a paperback book, which you install at home. The box converts the signal from the TV tuner or satellite receiver into a compressed data stream, encrypts it and sends it over the internet via an ordinary broadband link.

Software on your laptop connects to the set-top box's home page on the web, allowing you to download whatever programme is running at home, which you can watch live or record on the laptop's hard ...

Here is a link to a nice flash trailer from sony which I found: http://12.155.226.67/flash.html

The best news of all (fantastic imo) is that.... yes, sony has registered LocationFree.TV (whois here), and the 'cream on the cake' so to speak for us .TVers is that Sony have not bothered with any of the other 'top' extensions. They are all owned but not by sony and I am sure if sony were bothered they would have bought them up before releasing such a big product imo.

So in a nut shell, Sony are launching this fantastic technology now and appear to be going to market against the .TV extension (2006 is going to be a good year for the .TV me thinks :] )

 

[Badger]

nice idea...

And a nice bit of news

and what brave man is gonna grab freelocation.tv for reg fee..... ?

 

[rokoroko]

why brave? badger

 

[Badger]

sorry Rok, was being facetious... NP$ on way..

 

[Sam]

Its called. Sony takes the .tv name first.... then will attempt to use UDRP to no avail to get the .com .

 

[gamehouse]

Thanks for this wonderful news Mike.

I am pretty sure 2006 will see many more .tv sites including the ones I am developing :hehe:

I believe 2005 and 2006 are like 1995 and 1996 for .com era. In one or two years the heat will rise and naysayers will fall.

Good luck, .tvers,

Gamehouse

I have just read the following article in this months New Scientist:



Here is a link to a nice flash trailer from sony which I found: http://12.155.226.67/flash.html

The best news of all (fantastic imo) is that.... yes, sony has registered LocationFree.TV (whois here), and the 'cream on the cake' so to speak for us .TVers is that Sony have not bothered with any of the other 'top' extensions. They are all owned but not by sony and I am sure if sony were bothered they would have bought them up before releasing such a big product imo.

So in a nut shell, Sony are launching this fantastic technology now and appear to be going to market against the .TV extension (2006 is going to be a good year for the .TV me thinks :] )

 

[equity78]

Thanks Mike for the post.

Gamehouse don't ever worry about the naysayers, either clueless, agenda driven or jealous most times all three.

 

[gamehouse]

Hi equity78,
Lol, I least worry about many things. Thanks for the clarification. I agree.

Gamehouse

Thanks Mike for the post.

Gamehouse don't ever worry about the naysayers, either clueless, agenda driven or jealous most times all three.

 

[Badger]

Oh sugar, meant to send the 100NP$ to the thread starter and assumed it was you Rok :red: ah well, sorry bout that...

 

[rokoroko]

I was not a starter,I have only asked You Why is somebody who reg. it so brave. thanks for np . Do You want 100 np back?

 

[.Mike]

Oh sugar, meant to send the 100NP$ to the thread starter and assumed it was you Rok :red: ah well, sorry bout that...

I was not a starter,I have only asked You Why is somebody who reg. it so brave. thanks for np . Do You want 100 np back?

Lol, don't worry Ian, I am happy enough with the two NP$ I get for making the post - rokoroko, if Ian doesn't want them back buy something nice for yourself with them