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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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BitTorrent lands deals with 20 TV makers for peer-to-peer video http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/16/bitt ... eer-video/An interesting solution.
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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About 5 years ago, I had this whole discussion that the whole torrent thing is just a huge bait and switch thing by the movie industry. It's free market research, it's debatable as to what the real cost is, and all they need to do now is get us used to the idea of giving up cash for it.
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I agree that it is free market research, though it would make distribution of films faster and cheaper for cloud services. Though wouldn't TV's need a hard drive to store the films?
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Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:14 am |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Quite a few routers have had torrent clients on them for years, and the Linux based ones can always have it installed. However, it would be f*cking brilliant to have a "Search The Pirate Bay" button on a Sony Bravia TV remote 
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Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:24 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Samsung at least have been tinkering with 'upgradeable' TVs of some description, and I do remember seeing TVs with built-in drives a few years ago. Though obviously that now goes against OLED dick swinging...
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Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:45 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Upgradable TV's will create loads more problems so I doubt that they will succeed. It might push the cost up a bit.
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Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:13 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Quite a lot of TVs allow you to add an external USB drive/stick to act as a PVR. No good reason they couldn't be used as a bit-torrent client as well.
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Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:56 pm |
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