On the Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:38:57PM +0200, Nicolas Strina blubbered:
Hi.
It's only 2 providers filtering on many others. Downloading for personal use is not prohibed till you dont redistribute. Anyway with European law's it will come in all countries. But anyway your argument is right for internet connections. But with such nice pipes you easily can provide nice HD TV or other nice contents.
Well, I'd first have to get a faster computer then to play HDTV stuff. That Creative Commons movie called "The Elephants Dream" did not play on the PC. The Playstation 2 with homebrew player SMS[1] would have played it alright. One wonders, how this can be done with only one 235 MHz MIPS CPU (the "Emotion Engine"). But then the PS2's ethernet module, although it talks 100Base-TX as the protocol, effective throughput is only about 10 to 12 MBit/s or so. It could not handle the necessary bandwidth for streaming that hi-res divx, causing it to stutter really ugly during busy scenes.
Okee, it starts growing rather off-topic. Anyone interested in (ab)using their Playstation 2, either follow that link[1] below, or ask me at the next Beer Event. =:-)
CU, Venty