June 18, 2004

Moviebeam

Posted by ryan at 05:03 PM in technology . | 2 Comments

I came across this article today about Disney rolling out their Moviebeam service that delivers near-DVD quality movies to a set top box by broadcasting the data over NTSC signals. It is of interest to me as I worked for Dotcast when they were developing the datacasting technology for Disney.


 

Comments

Does it sound like the kind of stuff you worked on?

It's kind of weird, the other day I was thinking about how cool it was that once you wrote code that ran on a satellite. :)

Posted by: polamex at June 18, 2004 5:32 PM

We didn't have code *on* satellites, they were just used to transport the data (movies). The software was at the start and end points.

Click the "see a diagram" link at http://dotcast.com/htdocs/ssi/network/network.htm to get a better idea as to how it worked.

This is all we worked on at Dotcast. At first it was meant as a more generic system for broadcasting data to a variety of devices, but things started revolving around a movie distribution service during my time there.

Posted by: ryan at June 18, 2004 5:57 PM