Monday, June 29, 2009

Electric Box App Level26

Digital Terrestrial and IPTV.

The DTT seems to be a useless thing for people like me who uses the Internet as a medium for entertainment and information (as well as business and education). Hard to believe that this
half will take hold in a simple and popular, or rather it is almost impossible to believe that digital terrestrial will be the most simple and effective video communication.
Telecom Italy, 90 years after the failure of the project of a superfast network throughout Italy is proposing a "solution" commerciale.Si is a single decoder that in addition to DTT is able to receive IPTV service pay-TV that uses the network as a means of transmission. Popular in this sense is Alice Home Tv Other operators are trying to IPTV services but may not benefit from the Telecom network speed. IPTV is a need for availability of high bandwidth which at present seems to run out: it seems that the gang is mostly occupied by the peer to peer connections.
This type of connection is made directly between the different users of the Internet mainly to exchange video, is also used by Web TV like Joost that offers its users a wide variety of video content for free. In fact, transmission of Joost is extraordinarily fast and uninterrupted. The problem is the limited transmission capacity of the network throughout Italy. Telecom has tried to turn on Anti-services that provide digital-divide, as in my case, but a broadband connection that is divided by about 40 families, and therefore subject to sudden changes in speed (especially on weekends).
Telecom wants to expand the infrastructure, but the process is very expensive, so is trying to convince users to pay for more choice and better quality of television programs. With these gains is proposed to expand the infrastructure, but it will be difficult to convince users to pay a variety of content which can currently get for free.
The web TV is becoming a lot: Rai offers streaming in all programs (with the rare exception of some sports events) and in many cases also on demand for free on his website. Mediaset Popular programs have been loaded (illegally) on YouTube. In addition, there are still many content legally available on the network that will hopefully make the move to look like those of Mediaset illegal. The peer2peer allows the download of many films and TV shows (illegally) and unless it is blocked by ISPs or the government I see no reason why the users may be willing to pay.
To know more about Italy watch an interview with Piero de Clare of Telecom on Key4Biz.

Friday, June 12, 2009

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D'Alia, censorship on the Internet and false alarms.

These days the internet is full of alarmed calls to an amendment of the decree security (repression of activity of apology or instigation of criminal associations or illegal activities carried out via the Internet) that would take away the freedom to bloggers.
In straight lines Amendment D'Alia has not gone!
Internet is free! So free that Google works great! And the network is the best way to spread news that we have both written and video, but also entertainment and communications. We are entering a period (or we already have) where the production of information is available to everyone and we can really choose what to watch and listen. We must be journalists
us of ourselves, because as you know the information in Italy is very bad.
I used Google and did a check.
The security decree has not been fully approved, it consists of many items that have been voted one by one.
The article in question is number 60.
I typed on Google news and D'Alia internet and it took me a little to discover the truth through an article on Repubblica.it Vittorio Zambardino .
An excerpt from the article:

The beautiful - and tragic - of this story is that not only coincides with a dramatic moment for freedom of expression, that the network is ignoring the large, but brings about a result of "the wolf wolf ", which then make it impossible for the correct information when the bills actually censors the network, which some members of the majority are in the drawer, will come under discussion in parliament.
Courage, dear bloggers and Facebook users, with the same punctuality with which you have set the alarm, now scatters the correction of this false news.

If you read the text on the website of the Senate's decree safety and fun to find the words eliminated at the side of the 5 points that make up the terrible article.
This shows us something important. That the Internet has great power to spread the news in Italy (and the world) at an incredible rate, and the most interesting thing is that everyone contributes to the spread. The problem is that in the same manner spread spam, chain letters and hoaxes. Always check before spreading any news, only in this way you will use the full power of the network.