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Re: TV Garden

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Post by pavel_lishin »

larfus wrote: post #41
vault wrote: post #4

Thanks. I could spend hours watching distant cultures. Their colours, environment, technical equipment... I saw some people in Somalia using DJI microphones, those that in the West are mainly used by YouTubers. I also see TVs that are normally subject to fees. I'm aware the FAQs say it's only public streams, but I fear this won't last long.

I think its inevitable death will be from all that unrestricted pornography. That being said, these kinds of projects usually hold up for quite some time.

Where are the pornographic channels? You know, so I can avoid them?

Re: TV Garden

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

mcflubbins wrote: post #24

Checks out. Clicked on a channel in the Philippines and immediately had to sit through 5 soap related commercials, precisely what I recall from my time there.

> had to sit through 5 soap related commercials

Not the skin-lightening kind, I hope? Those ads were... odd.

I spent the late-1990s in Manila, for me it was Jollibee ads, and an oddly recurrent anti-corruption PSA which, I think, made corruption look quite appealing, actually.

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Post by sepositus »

larfus wrote: post #41
vault wrote: post #4

Thanks. I could spend hours watching distant cultures. Their colours, environment, technical equipment... I saw some people in Somalia using DJI microphones, those that in the West are mainly used by YouTubers. I also see TVs that are normally subject to fees. I'm aware the FAQs say it's only public streams, but I fear this won't last long.

I think its inevitable death will be from all that unrestricted pornography. That being said, these kinds of projects usually hold up for quite some time.

My children were interested in playing with it, but this was my fear. Is there actually pornography streaming on it?

Re: TV Garden

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Post by andreresende »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #46

Can someone explain the economics of this? So, there are a bunch of open http endpoints serving free video feeds and they don't care about bandwidth? It's not like radio where you broadcast it and people passively receive the signal. This is a great service for language practice, though. Wish it had a login + favorites system.

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Post by lawgimenez »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #52
mcflubbins wrote: post #24

Checks out. Clicked on a channel in the Philippines and immediately had to sit through 5 soap related commercials, precisely what I recall from my time there.

> had to sit through 5 soap related commercials Not the skin-lightening kind, I hope? Those ads were... odd. I spent the late-1990s in Manila, for me it was Jollibee ads, and an oddly recurrent anti-corruption PSA which, I think, made corruption look quite appealing, actually.

Skin lightening products are famous here for social status. It’s so fake.

Re: TV Garden

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Post by hunter2_ »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #46

Can someone explain the economics of this? So, there are a bunch of open http endpoints serving free video feeds and they don't care about bandwidth? It's not like radio where you broadcast it and people passively receive the signal. This is a great service for language practice, though. Wish it had a login + favorites system.

I never got into this aspect of networking, so I truly don't know what I'm talking about and wish someone will correct me, but on some level, IP does indeed have broadcast/multicast capabilities that cause the sender's egress traffic to remain independent of the number of recipients rather than being equal to the sum of recipients' ingress traffic, right? Does this only work downstream of the last router, and therefore has limited usefulness on the internet?
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