On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2009/5/31 Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org>: > >> Wikipedia over TV would never work. There isn't the bandwidth for it. > > > > > > So only broadcast a subset. > > A very small subset. > A single channel can broadcast over 5Mbps. That's 52 gigabytes per day, enough to broadcast all of Wikipedia in a few days on one channel, and all updates as they come in live on a second channel. TV's with hard drives are a pretty new in the developed world and > presumably all but non-existent in the developing world Who said anything about using a TV? > So, you would have to give people these hard-drives, > so you might as well fill them before you hand them out. So, what you > are suggesting is the same idea as Brian suggested but with the > ability to update articles over TV transmissions - not a bad extension > to the idea, but it's the same basic idea. Thanks. I also suggested not using hand-held devices, though. Too expensive. > > By the way, I'm not really sure what you mean by "TV is a broadcast > > medium". But presumably anyone without Internet access but with TV > access > > is receiving the TV signal through a broadcast, so I can safely ignore > this > > nitpick. > > By "broadcast medium" I mean a one-way transmission of information. I don't know about yours, but my TV uses two-way transmission. So a statement that "TV is a broadcast medium" is just not correct. True, it's probably correct in the vast majority of situations, but, blah blah blah, I think you see what I'm getting at... The TV people choose what you broadcast and you just choose to either > pick up what they send or don't. You can't request specific > information like you can online. Umm, yes I can. But like I said, I was nitpicking. TV isn't a medium, and it isn't necessarily broadcast. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l