Date:         Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:19:55 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      Re: [NVC] Free Satelite TV
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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Blaming the Canadians again... first I have heard of it.  :-)
There is "Free to air" satellite TV, but really it is nothing
new.  Back in the 80s when people had those big 14' C band dishes,
that's what they were doing - there isn't much available here that would
constitute as stuff that I would want to watch.   You can tune
in European or Asian or South American stuff as their satellites beam to
their locations only.  The free to air stuff today is just a
variation on that, but don't expect to get the Discovery Channel, MTV or
anything like that.

The only way to do psudo-free TV is to have
an internet connection and do a stream simular to what Sony does with
their "Location Free TV" - if you are into Linux there is a few
projects out there that does this too - http://www.mythtv.org comes to
mind.

If you like watching TV series, there is always
downloading them via peer-to-peer and stuff like that.  But, as far
as I know there is no way to brew a coffee and share it with big foot on
the mountains in Squamish and watch anything that is equivilent to
commerical TV.

David Marshall

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4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J 3J2

On Sat, February 2, 2008
11:53, John Rodgers wrote:
> I've just seen a smattering of info
on what is supposedly a coming
> communications revolution - Free
Satelite TV to virtually anywhere. No
> more cable TV and there
big monthly fees for their big package. It
> started in Canada and
has spread. Supposedly you can receive some 4000
> TV stations no
matter where you are - even when having coffee with the
> Yeti in
the Alps. - all for free// - after a small onetime charge of
>
around  $100. After that, no more billing. No monthy fee, no other
misc.
> fees. All free. Includes your local stations, sports, news
etc. movie
> channels, all of it.
>
> Anyone know
anything about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>