"Andy Zbikowski (Zibby)" <zibby+tclug at ringworld.org> wrote: > > Now that I read it again, you're right. But he's talking brodcast. Not > satlite, but plain old brodcast tv. (Well, Digital TV brodcast now...) > > Well, it is possible. I know there was some show before the advent of > cable modems that included some sort of download in their show's signal. > No idea how it was actually decoded on the user end. Computer Chronicles used to do this. They'd send batches of shareware packages by using about 1/3 of the screen. To humans, it just looks like static. I'm not sure how much stuff got sent. They ran it for about 1-2 minutes, and while it was going, they would say what was getting downloaded. I suspect it ended up in the 30-50 MB range. > Setting the FCC regulations aside, could this really work? First hurdle > is that your brodcast tv signal is one way. It takes some high power > equipment and tall towers to get the signal to you. You would need a > similar setup to get it back for 2 way communication. True, but there is potential here -- certain data is good to broadcast. Weather images and data, for instance. I know that certain HDTV broadcasts are supposed to include extra information, so the frameworks are presumably already there, or are at least fairly well along. Hmm.. Though I wonder what will happen if someone were to serruptitiously include extra stuff in ordinary broadcasts. Send out a whole Linux ISO in ten minutes or less ;-) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Radioactive halibut is / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ good for fission chips. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010807/c87a8f00/attachment.pgp