| reply to notyet321
Re: silly indeed using a media center PC is no different than GoogleTV. The only thing it uses is a web browser. A Media PC isn't going to work if they block PCs. They can block browsers from accessing the content; just like they are now. No big deal. Hell; they can block IPs and it will work.
A media PC is NOT going to do anything different than Google. Hell who would use the Google TV box anyway? cheaply made and over priced. WOOO you can watch NetFlix and YouTube! YAY!  |
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| said by hottboiinnc:using a media center PC is no different than GoogleTV. The only thing it uses is a web browser. A Media PC isn't going to work if they block PCs. They can block browsers from accessing the content; just like they are now. No big deal. Hell; they can block IPs and it will work. A media PC is NOT going to do anything different than Google. Hell who would use the Google TV box anyway? cheaply made and over priced. WOOO you can watch NetFlix and YouTube! YAY! Many people would probably not agree with that first statement; a PC browser is significantly different than a Google TV browser (»www.google.com/tv/getit.html).
Do you know that all "Windows 7 Home Premium" editions include "Media Center," as do "Pro" and "Ultimate"??? - Vista Home Premium and Ultimate also include this There was also XP Media Center Edition - it ("Media Center") is a program included with the operating system... Perhaps by "media center pc" you mean a simpler machine than a PC?
I realize that content can be blocked in several ways.
Why do it for content that was already OTA?
What is wrong with watching a stream, especially from the network itself?
Blocking all web based streams would mean that they have essentially stopped doing it altogether I suppose... In that case, the term "block" applies only in the sense that it has stopped altogether.
...What would be the point of that? |
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| reply to hottboiinnc
It's not a problem to exit the media center application to return to the native OS and run any "normal" browser you want to (Firefox, for instance), which is not the same thing as running the [Chrome] browser in/on/with Google TV; at that point you'd be just like anyone else not running media center, aka a typical PC environment. |
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