Stop Press Broadsight has invented MyPCTV, the newest New New Media

Wednesday, September 13. 2006

Stop Press Broadsight has invented MyPCTV, the newest New New Media

I was at IBC in Amsterdam, saw all the high tech wonders and marvels. Just about everyone is now an IPTV company or pretending to be, and there was booth after both showing complex diagrams and costly gear.

So, I came home and hooked up my dsl laptop to my big flatscreen TV, connected the PC headphone output to the hi fi and dialled up YouTube - and watched 2 hours of old rock videos.

Priceless...you (literally) can't buy this old stuff, or I would.

And then it hit me - this is real time, real life VoD. No IPTV, no iTV, no TiVO.......just a pure IP pipe, a PC, and a TV. The content quality is not HDTV - far from it - but boy is it relevant to me. Just have to do a bit of fiddling to get the remote to work as a mouse and my couch potato existence can continue.

Posted by David Short in MyPCTV at 00:46 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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but, Alan, you're a geek. do you think joe sixpack will do this?

#1 David (Homepage) on 2006-09-14 11:47 (Reply)

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