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Sun Microsystems Inc. signed a deal with AT&T to use it's proprietary Sun Fire Servers and storage servers to run its soon-to-be-released IPTV service named U-Verse. The current Sun technology supports 160, 000 simultaneous connections over the network. Remember this isn't Peer 2 Peer (P2P), it's an asynchronous one-way connection. AT&T already got the full rights over the IPhone and they've made a killing on it. With U-Verse picking up steam, we could see net neutrality laws start buckling as AT&T attempts to ration more of its bandwidth and backbone network for its own services. Scary stuff indeed.

Labels: at and t, att, Fire Servers, internet protocol television, iphone, microsystems, net neutrality, network neutrality, p2p, sun, sun technology, u-verse, uverse

Posted by James at 12:48 AM | Permalink | Comments

Not so new, but more of a new discovery to me - is the existance of a site called FreeTube, that claims it "[..] lets you watch TV online for free without the need for any special software, hardware or subscription service. We are a completely free alternative to cable television that lets you watch tv channels and tv shows online using just your browser. "

Interesting concept carried out quite well seeing as how it sticks to it's promise, I didn't have to download anything special and I was able to use the site using my older 500mhz PII. I did however have to update my Windows Media Player, but that was only a 2 minute download and installation. After installing windows media player, it was quite simple - just a simple click on what they call a "category" [think topics like sports]. The channels are sorted and listed under these categories and you just click on one to watch. It has this google mail type loader that doesn't refresh the page..I think they call it web 20 or something?

I couldn't get windows media player to show the actual video but I took a screenshot (imagine that theirs some video in there lol):

Labels: free, free tv, freetube, iphone, IPTV, online tv, sex, sex channels, television site, watch tv, watch tv online, web 2.0, web tv, webtv, xxx channels

Posted by James at 10:48 PM | Permalink

"The iPhone's resume now includes YouTube. Apple announced that its upcoming, much-publicized mobile device will be compatible with videos published to the popular Web site, thanks to an Apple-designed application."

Apple is already ramping up on claims that it will be compatiable with Apple TV, allowing for streaming of multimedia content through WiFi networks wherever possible.

Even more exciting is the potential for full-fledged movies to be made available intuitively and through a blockbuster/netflix type system. More can be read here.

Labels: apple, blockbuster, iphone, movie, netflix, streaming, wifi, youtube

Posted by James at 10:35 AM | Permalink