If MovieBeam enabled the ethernet port as another option for movie delivery, it would make the service accessible to almost every customer who has a broadband connection, not just the customers within OTA signal coverage. The OTA method was not good, even if they did stay around, they wouldn't of lasted past 2009 when the FCC ruling would require mandatory digital signal conversion. It would of required upgrading or adding a digital tuner on every MB box.
Not to mention, ethernet connectivity could of helped in billing (instead of a phone line) in addition to adding numerous interactive features. They could of been competing with digital cable services and streamed regular TV as well. They should of took me on to lead engineering and management. :-) (I'm available, BusyWithBiz@gmail.com)
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Good times. Head to ebay right now to buy a lot of 200 of these boxes for about a dollar a piece... I wonder how hackable the hardware is.
It is not hackable at all. Everything is encrypted down the the hard drive. It has a hardware encryption chip on the hard drive itself.
If MovieBeam enabled the ethernet port as another option for movie delivery, it would make the service accessible to almost every customer who has a broadband connection, not just the customers within OTA signal coverage. The OTA method was not good, even if they did stay around, they wouldn't of lasted past 2009 when the FCC ruling would require mandatory digital signal conversion. It would of required upgrading or adding a digital tuner on every MB box.
Not to mention, ethernet connectivity could of helped in billing (instead of a phone line) in addition to adding numerous interactive features. They could of been competing with digital cable services and streamed regular TV as well. They should of took me on to lead engineering and management. :-) (I'm available, BusyWithBiz@gmail.com)
-Fred S.