Tapping something different
July 27th 2008 07:53
I've only ever heard of faucets in relation to what we call taps - those things that spew forth water at varying speeds. But Inrete, an Italian company devoted to help and support large enterprise customers in their IT network needs offer a service called Faucet PVR. It's a web-based personal video recorder that can capture any time range on the all the major on-air clear broadcast channels available in Italy.
I thought personal video recorders must be something similar to VCRs, but of course they're much more sophisticated than that. But Wikipedia, that increasingly helpful online encyclopedia, says: A digital video recorder (DVR) or personal video recorder (PVR) is a device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive or other memory medium within a device. The term includes stand-alone set-top boxes, portable media players (PMP) and software for personal computers which enables video capture and playback to and from disk.
With Faucet PVR, the recordings are all reside on the Faucet servers. Users can access and download what they have selected to video record. Faucet does not record indiscriminately. It provides an interface to a web-based digital video recorder that each individual can use to record his preferred television shows.
So there you have it. Always there's technology that you haven't picked up on!
I thought personal video recorders must be something similar to VCRs, but of course they're much more sophisticated than that. But Wikipedia, that increasingly helpful online encyclopedia, says: A digital video recorder (DVR) or personal video recorder (PVR) is a device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive or other memory medium within a device. The term includes stand-alone set-top boxes, portable media players (PMP) and software for personal computers which enables video capture and playback to and from disk.
With Faucet PVR, the recordings are all reside on the Faucet servers. Users can access and download what they have selected to video record. Faucet does not record indiscriminately. It provides an interface to a web-based digital video recorder that each individual can use to record his preferred television shows.
So there you have it. Always there's technology that you haven't picked up on!
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