<tidytrees@mail.ru> wrote in message 
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> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>> > John W. wrote:
>> >
>> >>For those interested, there's a short article in the January
> _Wired_
>> >>about using a broadband connection to watch international
> programming.
>> >>The technology is TV2Me and is expensive; see www.spaceshift.net.
>> >>John W.
>
> TV2Me "space-shifts" *all* a locale's TV to anywhere else the
> subscriber goes. It's legal, a one-to-one encryoted system, -- to the
> subscriber it is, functionally just an extension cord to his (distant)
> bedroom.  So it's not a selected handful of special-for-eport programs,
> but all the same TV avaiable on cable in Tokyo.  The NY Times "shoot
> out" between it and a system by Sony was astounded that the TV2Me
> (about $5000) "upstart" delivered "television quality" pictures, even
> on a 50" plasma monitor. The obstacle to any such system, would be that

 > SNIP

I think the Sony system mentioned was this one

http://www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/Press/200502/05-0201/

Review here, about two PageDowns

http://www.japaninc.com/newsletters/index.html?list=gw


Sryn
sryn@yahoo.DELETETHIS.com


P.S.  Any advice (hopefully) for me as I'll be moving to Vancouver for six 
months from the end of this month?  Just a specialised eLearning course at 
SFU.