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New Chipset in Revo iBlik WiFi |
New Chipset in Revo iBlik WiFi The new Revo radios are now using chipsets from http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com or Frontier Silicon, please visit www.frontier-silicon.com. The Revo products have always been well designed and have proved their success with our customer base. So what does this change mean? well from installs in the field the results show the effective WiFi ranges seems to be greater and the start up times are faster. So for this technically unsympathetic world all in all the Revo product line has just got better. They have the same functionallity as before of Internet Radio, favourites list and media player. The menu for the media player has a few more stages but this distracts very little from the overall improvements. |
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Free Delivers Broadband TV to Vallauris |
Free Delivers Broadband TV to Vallauris Finally, after almost 12 months of waiting, Free www.free.fr has delivered the full broadband package to Vallauris. For eleven months I have been benefitting from a degrouped line provided by Free in France. The package was impressive: free phone calls to 45 countries, up to 5 Mbit/s download, just under 1 Mbit/s upload connection and a HD set top box with a TNT tuner thrown in. Until this month I did not benefit from the broadband TV and the FreePlayer which is a PC/Mac software based on an excellent Open Source multimedia player called VLC www.videolan.org . VLC in combination with the set top box enables you to view the TV on any PC or Mac on your network. The set top box has an internal hard drive and can work as a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) the storage capacity of which you can easily be extended with an external drive or USB flash drive. All in all Free with their HD set top box delivers a Geeks paradise but to a non technical person it can prove a hurdle - happy viewing! at least now Vallauris is on the map with the neighbouring Sophia Antipolis. |
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Hot on the Heels of Joost comes Babelgum |
Babelgum has just launched its first Beta of its player. This is the latest wave of technology waiting in the wings to shake up the broadcast industry. Possibly best described as "The Long Tail" of TV it is a peer to peer technology which focuses on the niche TV consumer. They have collated a wide range of viewing content - if you are a Madness fan or just curious, sign up for the Beta and check out the music section, www.babelgum.com . |
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British Free to Air Satellite TV in the South of France |
British Free to Air Satellite TV in the South of FranceWith all the excitement of TNT and Internet TV it is easy to forget Free to Air Satellite TV and it is very straight forward to recieve UK Free to Air Satelitte TV in the South of France. Free to Air includes all the BBC channels, ITV and Film 4 (don't forget all the Radio), you will need a 80cm + dish and some where to put it. The dish should be aligned 28 deg east which in lay mans terms means face south and turn 28 degrees to the left. The elevation is approx 38 degrees, to fine tune twist the the head anti-clockise (looking from the back) by 10 degrees in the Nice - Cannes area et Voila all the BBC, ITV and Film 4 you want. There are some very reasonable Free to Air kits available in Castorama and Leroy Merlin. |
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Free Joins the Long Tail of TV |
Free Joins the Long Tail of TV "Free" www.free.fr the 2nd largest ADSL provider in France, has added the facility to allow viewers of its broad band TV service to become producers of their own viewing content. Now you can take any video that you have made and place it on a TV channel so it can be viewed on Television by all. Just tune into channel 13 on the Free HD TV box and you will enter a world of huge possibilities to become your own production and distribution company. To input your film footage you can attach a camera or video device to the HD TV Box with an cable and upload it centrally, et voila! Traditionally PC's and the Internet have been the building blocks of the Long Tail of consummerism as it enabled a greater amount of producers to create content and distribute it easily. "Free" have made a major step into the consummer market as they have effectively taken the PC out of the equation. |
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