Space Shifting Your Digital Media

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/252/tv2me_pace_shifting

"It appears that place-shifting, or as TV2ME likes to call it, “space shifting” – the ability to move an entire media environment from one location (your home) to another (hotel, work, anywhere) with full control and playback capabilities – is all the rage these days. A new competitor hitting this new found market is TV2ME, a creation by Ken Schaffer, the inventor of the wireless guitar and microphone in the early 1970's, and his group of engineers at K2B, Inc. have a product that will turn your PC, when connected to a TV2ME SourcePoint A/V adapter (approx. $5,000) and all your home entertainment equipment, into an Internet media broadcaster."



It's an interesting concept, though I can't see this catching on just yet - most of us are trying to figure out how to get our media content from one computer on our network to another. Adding in external networks only complicates things further. Still, this is definitely the future of accessing digital media.

I evision a future where just by picking up a portable media player, through a biometric authentication system, you'll have immediate access to all your content. How cool would that be? 8)

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/252/tv2me_pace_shifting

"It appears that place-shifting, or as TV2ME likes to call it, “space shifting” – the ability to move an entire media environment from one location (your home) to another (hotel, work, anywhere) with full control and playback capabilities – is all the rage these days. A new competitor hitting this new found market is TV2ME, a creation by Ken Schaffer, the inventor of the wireless guitar and microphone in the early 1970's, and his group of engineers at K2B, Inc. have a product that will turn your PC, when connected to a TV2ME SourcePoint A/V adapter (approx. $5,000) and all your home entertainment equipment, into an Internet media broadcaster."



It's an interesting concept, though I can't see this catching on just yet - most of us are trying to figure out how to get our media content from one computer on our network to another. Adding in external networks only complicates things further. Still, this is definitely the future of accessing digital media.

I evision a future where just by picking up a portable media player, through a biometric authentication system, you'll have immediate access to all your content. How cool would that be? 8)

[OSUKid7]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I evision a future where just by picking up a portable media player, through a biometric authentication system, you'll have immediate access to all your content. How cool would that be? 8)

Oh I hope that happens sooner rather than later. I'd also like to see all computer data stored on a back-end server - sort of like today's blade servers. We should never need these noisy, large boxes in every room of our house to access our data. I know that's the opposite of the original PC philosophy, but this network-centric PC design makes much more sense to me.