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.
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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 |
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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 |