I was watching ccn last night as the plane taxied acoross the tarmac and took off live from china (7:30 pm edst). The tv crew had a hand held dig video camera with a (cell?) telephone connection. Then the cops came and made 'em stop. "W" listened in on a cnn audio feed and the Generals at the pentagon watched on cable.
Any links available for info on that broadband two-way satelite company ?
Starband is the biggest as far as I know. They might even be the only one at this point (with two way sattelite connection - direcTV has been beaming down from for years, but you have to connect up through regular means.) Starband seems cool. Heavily backed by microsoft. Plus it uses USB instead of ethernet to connect to your computer and that is very weird (especially since Microsoft is not even going to support USB in Windows XP.) Connections are fast, but the latency is high, so it would be bad for on line gaming.
Streaming digital video wirelessly from a camera onto the web is one of the cooler things I can think of.
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Any links available for info on that broadband two-way satelite company ?
- bill 4-12-2001 2:53 pm
Starband is the biggest as far as I know. They might even be the only one at this point (with two way sattelite connection - direcTV has been beaming down from for years, but you have to connect up through regular means.) Starband seems cool. Heavily backed by microsoft. Plus it uses USB instead of ethernet to connect to your computer and that is very weird (especially since Microsoft is not even going to support USB in Windows XP.) Connections are fast, but the latency is high, so it would be bad for on line gaming.
Streaming digital video wirelessly from a camera onto the web is one of the cooler things I can think of.
- jim 4-12-2001 4:06 pm [add a comment]