P2POD drops P2P video onto your HDTV

So apparently a company by the name of AHT International from the Netherlands is going to be showing off their new P2POD at CeBIT this year. It's supposed to be a device developed using software pioneered at  Delft University of Technology that allows it to not only capture media from peer-to-peer networks, but also play it streaming over the Internet from said networks onto your 1080 HDTV -- but because apparently the quality and speed of the service is enhanced by more P2PODs being online, we assume then that these things are going to be on some proprietary P2POD P2P network (not that it could use BitTorrrent for streaming media anyway, because the files don't transfer serially). Perhaps the best part of all about this thing is that it supports Windows Media DRM (for playing back, um, legitimately licensed media); expect this thing to cost $150 in Q3, if ever makes it out of vaporous lawsuit-bait status.

[Via I4U]

[bowlhed @ Feb 16th 2006 10:39AM]

this was looking good until i saw DRM and propietary in the mix...

[yet another Matt @ Feb 16th 2006 10:46AM]

The netherlands has a different sort of legislation over file sharing networks, so i imagine this only to land there.
But i did think the legislation banned illigal uploads, so im not sure houw having more p2pods around improving the service works legally.

[d2crew @ Feb 16th 2006 11:26AM]

Not to be an grammar nazi but I'm pretty sure you guys meant "streaming" instead of "sreaming".

[CrazySoB16 @ Feb 16th 2006 11:36AM]

Looks like an elongated 360 (shapewise)Doubt I will ever waste my money one though.