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SeattleWireless TV Broadcasts Again 44

Posted by Hemos from the pull-it-down-from-the-skies dept.
adpowers writes "After a month long hiatus, SeattleWireless TV is back. This break allowed them time to include footage from August's Wireless Field Day. The episode also includes a how-to for making a BiQuad antenna and an interview with SeattleWireless founder Matt Westervelt about how SW is different from other community wireless networks. You can download an MPEG version with BitTorrent. Windows Media and Real Media versions are available on the website."
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  • Back when I was a kid (Score:5, Funny)

    by GMontag ( 42283 ) <gmontag@NosPAm.guymontag.com> on Monday November 03, 2003 @08:59AM (#7377095) Homepage Journal
    Back in the olden-days all of our TV channels came to us via wireless. It was a great improvement having moving pictures to go with the sound.

    Now we have the cable, like everybody else, but it doesn't sound like you youngsters know that there was TV before the cable.

    • Re:Back when I was a kid (Score:3, Interesting)

      by dougmc ( 70836 )

      but it doesn't sound like you youngsters know that there was TV before the cable.

      And I wonder if you youngsters even know that before there was voice, there was just simple beeping ( .-- .... . . ). And before that, there were moving pictures again, but they took the form of smoke signals ...

      Seriously though, my daughter (2.5 years old) thinks that TV is `on demand'. She comes into a room, sees a TV and starts screaming for Dora! (the Explorer.) And since DirectTV lets you have Tivos on every

      • Yea, when my son was around that age he was so used to me re-winding movies and stepping through frame-by-frame to see certain FX he would want me to re-wind the news too.
        • Yea, when my son was around that age he was so used to me re-winding movies and stepping through frame-by-frame to see certain FX he would want me to re-wind the news too.

          When the traffic info comes up on the radio on the way home and I don't catch it until it's almost over, I think an "instant-replay" button on the car stereo would be a Good Thing.

          • Alpine had an automobile deck years ago that had recording from air capability. Combine that with auto-side select, etc and you have an analog version of a 90 min. loop mp3 setup. No telling what is available but I wouldn't be surprised if somebody's home-brew car system has something like this already worked out.

  • Amazing! (Score:4, Funny)

    by BallPeenHammer ( 720987 ) on Monday November 03, 2003 @09:04AM (#7377118)
    Wireless TV! What will they think of next? Perhaps wireless radio!

    • There is also this marvelous idea to make hardcopies of e-mail and physicaly transport the hardcopy to the recipient, thus allowing you to communicate with people who don't have access to the internet, or even a computer. The lag is a little worse thought, but I'm sure they are working on that.

    • Not freakin likely. I've been working in the radio communications industry for years. People continue to call it "wireless" and I keep installing more and more wires. I recently had to install a 5 GHz radio for a network link, Proxim advertised it as wireless and.....I shit you not....my boss was pissed off that the installation required me to go through the roof and run 75 feet of WIRE! "It's supposed to be wireless" he said.

      He had a good point.

  • I doubt it will catch on tho. Next you'll be telling me we can get radio from a satellite.

  • broadcast...? or better? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by certron ( 57841 ) on Monday November 03, 2003 @09:23AM (#7377219)
    I guess for it to be a real broadcast, it would have to be on at a certain time, and have to have real people 'tuning in' to see it. In this case, it is more of a video press release/news program.

    Don't get me wrong, this is pretty cool in itself, but I was a little disappointed when reality reminded me that this wasn't some multicast video streaming thingie, with a program being available almost simultaneously over all nodes in the network. (Although, a sniffer-based audio/video player could be kinda cool, too, and actually be like a real broadcast, with lots of little repeaters...)

    Then again, traditional time-based network shows (or informative / documentary shows) may be on the way out, and this is, in fact, a future video structure.

    • I guess for it to be a real broadcast, it would have to be on at a certain time, and have to have real people 'tuning in' to see it. In this case, it is more of a video press release/news program.

      A broadcast is defined essentially as any over-the-air transmission intended for the general public -- as in, not designated for any particular person. So while this may not meet your definition of a broadcast, it may well meet the FCC's definition. Although I can't find any reference in the article to what you'r

      • I guess I mis-read the parent of my previous post...I think they were refering to the "tv show" in general, not something specific to the field day, which is what I was expecting when I made my "Although I can't find any reference in the article to what you're talking about, but then again I only skimmed it..." comment...
    • Well, currently, even with buckets of cash Time Warner can't seem to get a Matrix trailer out to everyone. Their supply chain(Akamai)saturates too quickly.

      Bram Cohen of Bittorrent has said that he'd like to create a live streaming Bittorrent for the purposes of a virtual 'real broadcast'. This is the only real solution for those without buckets of cash and internet2 connectivity.

      But the problem in this is that the ability to enforce 'tit-for-tat' downloads is lost in a live broadcast, and this is what mak

  • FCC Part 15 (Score:4, Informative)

    by Goody ( 23843 ) on Monday November 03, 2003 @09:28AM (#7377237) Journal
    The episode also includes a how-to for making a BiQuad antenna

    How about they do an episode on how to get an Amateur Radio license so you can operate under FCC Part 97 (not 15) and build your own antennas and perform all the radio modifications you want -- legally :-)

    • Is it really that hard to get a license? I thought the hoops were easier to jump through these days... back when I got mine (95) it's wasn't very hard... a bit of studying for a couple weeks and then a series of tests and your good to go (if you pass the tests).

  • Please leave Bittorrent windows open (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Robotron2084 ( 262343 ) on Monday November 03, 2003 @10:23AM (#7377532) Homepage
    This is the obligatory post to remind people:

    Please leave Bittorrent windows open so that others can easily download the file. Seattle Wireless is doing their best to cope with /. effect. Leaving the BT windows open helps reduce the server load on their computers, and improve performance for others.
    • Normally it's a pain in the ass to grab anything linked here, but I'm currently getting 1180K/sec, and it's going up. Thanks Slashdot! Thanks BitTorrent!

    • MPEG mirrors? (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Many universities block BitTorrent, so a fast mirror of the MPEG video would be useful (especially an HTTP server on Internet2 or a connected network).

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