BitTorrent comes to TV. CES announcement today that there’s a new partnership between tiny San Francisco-based BitTorrent, and Silicon Valley network-equipment maker Netgear. This new Netgear product, developed with BitTorrent, will find any media that is sitting on your PC (high-def movies, music, photos, etc) and send it over to your TV, over a speedy wireless standard that is being called 802.11G. Got to get some of that!
Netgear’s announcement is here. According to the NYTimes, geeks will love it and football fans will cringe. How to bring new tech products to the masses? That’s the challenge.
BitTyrant is better. ;) Uses bittorrent but boosts download speeds. Developed at U. of Washington.
Also curious as to the problem with copyright material. Pretty much all TV shows are offlimits currently for BitTorrent from a legal perspective, and same with music. There’s a good deal of Creative Commons material, but I doubt that’s what it’s used for.