GBTV #552 | Adobe Flash Platform, Color ePaper, iStubz, Spy HandBag Camera, BLACX SATA Dock
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Posted in: Video
Posted by: Cali Lewis
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At NAB, Adobe announced the Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home, which will bring Flash to HDTVs.
Bridgestone Corp is working on color ePaper that will allow input from a pen and decreases refresh time.
iStubz iPhone/iPod charging and syncing cables give you some length options at 7cm and 22cm.
The Spy HandBag Camera is perfect for those of you who are familiar with the cheesy backstory of GeekBrief.TV (which is here). The bag has a camera with a hidden pinhole lens.
We’ve covered lots of SATA hard drive docks on The Brief. I was at a friend’s house and saw he had the BLACX SATA Dock, the same one that Devin Coldewey had blogged about that you can get for $20.
You can save money on domain name registrations and renewals from GoDaddy.com with discount codes GB1, GB2 and GB3. For an explanation of each code, click here. Anthony used promo code GB1 to save money when he registered ThatWordPressGuy.com.
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April 20th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
That hard drive docking device looks pretty cool but I think I’ll still hold out for a Drobo. Love lots of storage space for media!
April 20th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
i think i would pay about $5 a month for hulu on boxee.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
We shouldn’t have to pay anything for Hulu on boxee! The model is customers are allowing content providers the unprecedented access to advertise to us not limited by time or traditional broadcast logistical constraints. (we even pay for the internet access and they provide the server space and content). Watching on boxee doesn’t cut out their commercials or save a copy on our hard drive like traditional TV with a TIVO does. It doesn’t inhibit or change that model in any way from watching it on a computer. They might as well say you can only watch our programs if you’re a particular race, or economic class. The implicit deal is you give me the program I want when I want it and you get my eyeballs and attention for a set period of time. Content providers are looking at it from the wrong perspective. They say, 1) you can watch (the most recent 4 episodes) on a cramped computer if you look at our ads but watching on a TV is a “premium” or “convenient” service you have to pay for. The truth is technology and a willing consumer has GRANTED the content providor the privilege of offering their content to me at any time. Before tapes you had one shot to get your message out. Now you have the ability to offer your content anytime. So stop acting like you’re providing something to me and start getting your content out to people who want to watch it.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
There have been times that I’ve been glad to watch a show on Hulu, especially when some television scheduling snafu has made my DVR miss the last few minutes of a show. However, if I paid for those instances, then I’d be rewarding the television industry for missing their schedules and ruining my DVR investment. I couldn’t find any movies worth watching on Hulu. It would be hard for them to compete with Netflix anyway. It’s silly for them to block boxee and offer their content freely on the web. There’s no point in paying for them to put Hulu on boxee when I can just fire up my web browser.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
No way would I pay hulu. They run ads! They don’t need my money.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Well, I’ll probably be in the minority here, but yes I would pay for Hulu. The ads are inconvenient and very very short. I’d love to pay something like $5. I’d probably pay for something as high as $10, although for that price I’d want ZERO ads and an option to access the back catalog and higher quality (maybe).
As a side note, what I don’t understand is why they just don’t place the exact same copy of the episode that heirs on TV with the long commercials and everything. I understand things like regional ad agreements and measuring CPM and so forth, but that seems really like the most obvious solution. Thoughts?
April 20th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
For a few dollars a month, I can have a superlative choice of feature films, documentaries and television series from Netflix, Blockbuster or for free from our local public library. There is also a plethora of classic television programs, cartoons, documentaries and ephemeral films available from the Internet Archive. ^..^~
April 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Would I pay money to view hulu on boxee?
I would not pay any website or software to view programing.
I pay $90 for DishNetwork, $43 for Verizon FIOS, and $30 for AT&T Internet on iPhone.
How much more should I pay!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Bottom line– Is Hulu ad supported or subscriber supported? It can be both, but not at the same time.
I might pay to use Hulu, but I’d expect to see no ads while using it through boxee, logged in on the hulu site, or anywhere else. Any fee, even if it’s a dollar, is too much to pay to watch commercials. Paying simply because the networks are greedy is reason enough to fire up Transmission and browse over at The Pirate Bay.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:25 am
The Boxee-Hulu issue’s nothing to do with finances, it’s a question of licensing. Because it’s open source, Boxee works unrestricted in all territories, whereas Hulu only works in the US at present, so folks like me in the UK can’t access Hulu, but if content came through Boxee then we could circumvent those restrictions which however great for us viewers, would put Hulu up to their ears in lawsuits, not to mention the chaos it would cause to scheduling.
Take Family Guy – we’ve not had any of the new Season 8 shows over here yet, so I can’t imagine Fox willingly giving away potential TV viewers in other territories to convenience a piece of open-source software to. As much as it would benefit me!
Sadly licensing is a painfully complex beast – And I should know – I work for a music licensing company!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I might pay if Hulu could explain how it is different for me to watch Hulu on my laptop verses watching it on Boxee? A lot of folks are already paying to watch Hulu by purchasing software such as Playon. Get a clue Hulu, embrace technology, don’t stifle it.
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