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posted by Editor
on Wednesday October 11, @06:22PM
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Accessing personal media over the Internet is one of the major product themes at the DigitalLife consumer technology exposition in New York this week. A number of young companies are showcasing solutions for consumers to play
pictures, music and video stored remotely from anywhere on the web, either on other PCs or on mobile devices. Unlike peer-to-peer based file sharing systems, many of which are crumbling or restructuring under legal pressures, with these systems content is not actually transferred, so that others can enjoy the content without apparent risk of violating IP rights. Rather, these companies are
touting a kind of personalized "broadcast" approach, in which content is streamed over the web to others who may be
interested in experiencing a unique, personalized mix of media associated with an individual. Users organize the content they wish to broadcast into customized "channels", which friends and acquaintances can consume either through their web browser, or mobile devices. The concept has been popularized by the hardware-based Slingbox, and now several upstarts, including Orb, Twango, and Sharpcast aim to provide the same value with software.
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Orb is touting "MyCasting", which makes it easy to stream live and recorded TV, photos, audio, and video to any web-connected device. The company has set up many key partnerships, including hardware suppliers such as Nokia for remotely browsing Orb content on its mobile phones, and Hauppauge Computer Works for capturing
broadcasts on the home PC. Twango lets users upload photos, videos, and audio and then share it privately or with the whole world. It offers clever ways to upload content, such as letting camera phone users submit content by simply emailing it to special addresses that automatically post the content to channels. Finally, Sharpcast uses a replication model, whereby content is automatically synchronized via its servers from one machine to another. Sharpcast can currently be used to automatically back up photos online, organize them into
web albums, and synchronize them instantly between multiple PCs that a user needs to access, and optionally to mobile phones.
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