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You pay for expensive media (premium cable tv, sattelite tv, satellite cable) to be delivered to your home. Why can't you watch or listen to it anywhere? Why can't you record it to your own hard drive for playback later? Why, if you want to do these things, must you buy expensive products such as Tivo and Slingbox? . With nothing more than a couple cables you can buy at Radio Shack, your home computer, your high-speed internet connection, and *our* software package, you can do all of that and more. . No expensive hardware or proprietary systems that solve one but not all of these problems. You buy our software, once, and you've got this problem solved for life. Want to auto-record shows, like on Tivo? Pay a little extra to buy our monthly schedules for your cable service. This service even works for auto-recording Sattelite Radio (XM, Sirius). Watch or listen to them later (on the road, at work), or download them to your iPod as a Podcast or Video Podcast!
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Four different expensive, proprietary devices all solving aspects of the same problem, and due to their proprietary nature, they offer little or no chance for interoperability. Once I pay for the content, I should decide how and where I enjoy it. . The HYMN apps I've seen solve too small subsets of the problem. Noone has tackled them as one, integrated package, or tied it to scheduling services and predictive services. . Finally, once something like this was created, partnering with (or selling to) a Netflix or Blockbuster would be a natural fit, giving them immediate entry into "Media On Demand" services over the internet.
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This is an excellent idea (about time I found one on here - see my comment list for any number of awful ideas).
This is essentially media-middleware, taking one format and converting it to another, but for the end-user's benefit. The whole thing could even be ad-powered if needs be.
I imagine AOL TimeWarner would be interested in providing this kind of service.
The only downside is the hardware involvement :(
Aidan, I agree: the hardware entanglements make a barrier to entry for this business. My hope is that some enterprising gearhead can make the hardware aspect work with nothing more than a desktop computer, a high-speed internet connection, and a couple common cables from Radio Shack (for the TV portion, anyway -- the Sattelite Radio portion would need a *different* set of cables from Radio Shack!)
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Thanks for your support, though; for some reason, of all my ideas, this one is the lowest ranked!
Yeah, you've got a rank of only 1! If it was just a case of simple cables and easy instructions then it might be OK - I'm just thinking of keeping the barrier of entry as low as possible. Good documentation/vidcasts will be essential.
A few comments:
1. Isn't copyright an issue?
2. Whilst being a good idea, is Cambrian House the forum for what is really a hardware project?
3. Other than selling the hardware, how do you make money?
4. Have you thought about people wanting to view their TV programmes anywhere in the world, something that takes a standard TV signal, plugs into your PC TV card and transforms it to streaming TV you can view from any country would be cool but I'm sure there would be copyright and distribution legal problems.
SiliconGlen: The aspect of my idea that you're talking about already exists and is called the SlingBox.
Legality is not an issue: I'm already PAYING for the media at my home. I'm choosing to make it accessible remotely.
The whole idea is larger than just that.
As for hardware issues: yes, there are some, but this is not just a hardware idea.
This is a wonderful prospect, if i undestand it correctly. It's like having somebody fight your DRM wars for you -- for all of us, to bully in the right direction, to employ activism and to be ready to go to court on our behalf if needs be.
All the hardware and software issues are really a minor thing compared to the big questions of grapling with DRM... in a right way. And all we want to do here is create software.. ups, there is a kind of discrepancy :)
So, recracting again to a more generally discussion.. this is what makes me wonder about how we are going to be able to propose killer-app prospects mostly with coders on board. Shall we really shy away from all other professions, because at the end of the day, we want to give from 5-10% to that who proposes the idea, and leave everything else to the chameleon and the coders?
I mean, really, if this noble thing gets its chance, surely somebody will need to talk with EFF almost daily, it's almost a political opposition! Aren't we the political opposition? To which ruling principles are we opposing?
Let's me rephrase the idea from the point of its future again: it's either low or non profit, or high profit and a political opposition.
Do you know what i mean? I think this is a wonderful idea.. but shall i upvote it or not?!
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