From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed May 14 15:07:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA08720 for multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbag.jf.intel.com (mailbag.jf.intel.com [134.134.248.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08709 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aahz.jf.intel.com (aahz.jf.intel.com [192.198.161.2]) by mailbag.jf.intel.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA01887; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by aahz.jf.intel.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #13) id m0wRmBq-000hy2C; Wed, 14 May 97 15:06 PDT Message-Id: From: batie@aahz.jf.intel.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: Teletext and intercast To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 15:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705142047.WAA27038@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at May 14, 97 10:47:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a hard time believing that there > are technical or legal impedements to the deployment of something > like intercast outside the US. Again, I'll disclaim any real knowledge of matters, but I've heard that the VBI market is getting crowded. While teletext has the advantage of being grandfathered, it wouldn't surprise me if new applications for it had to go through hoops to get space allocated, not to mention typical bureaucratic stuff (aren't a lot of the overseas tv stations government run?). You also have to worry about what other people are doing with it already (I've heard of at least one instance where they discovered that the hard way). -- Alan Batie ------ What goes up, must come down. batie@aahz.jf.intel.com \ / Ask any system administrator. +1 503-264-8844 (voice) \ / --unknown D0 D2 39 0E 02 34 D6 B4 \/ 5A 41 21 8F 23 5F 08 9D