On Sunday 15 August 2010 09:47 PM, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
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On 15-Aug-2010, at 7:57 PM, "Mukund Deshmukh"mukund.deshmukh@gmail.com wrote:
Here are some links to cheap STB type pc devices and interesting writeups.
As JTD has pointed out, there is no up link in STB, so it is not possible to browse. Some time back I have read about, down link through satellite and up link through land line.
A ISP in Pune called jabarokee which operated in 1998 used a similar thing. Since dot / vsnl used to be expensive, they used dot line for upload and satellite for download. I am sure better tech exists today as compared to those days.
I don't know how the satt. thing got in from the members. The technology I had mentioned was a simple STB or lets call it CPE to avoid confusion, that would boot into a linux system from the broadband available via an ethernet port from MTNL's ADSL modem. Since there were problems with net logins, I am suggesting a device that has a local login using a flash card (pen drive) as the installed OS. No satt. technology here.
Google is already implementing this technology in a media centric way in Sony LCD TVs. I have already seen and set up Sony TVs in Mumbai, that have an ethernet port as well as a wireless lan that allows the viewer to visit Youtube and other limited number of video sites online to see their videos on the TV itself via LAN or WLAN. Once again I make it clear, there is no satellite linking involved. Now if the same hardware is programmed to have a light weight desktop, you have a TV and a PC built into one. Pupply Linux, Slax and such desktops. No satellite.