Lord_of_the_Dense
October 11th, 2004, 08:06 PM
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a move sure to raise the eyebrows of Hollywood and its partners, a California startup will unveil a service Monday that allows subscribers to remotely access their digital media files — even watch live television — from any gadget with an Internet connection.
Want to watch your HBO while waiting at the doctor's office, or use your cell phone instead of a portable music player to listen to songs from your home's digital jukebox?
The technology from Orb Networks Inc., based in Union City, grabs a user's music, video, or photo files stored on their home PCs and streams them to Web-enabled devices such as cell phones, laptops, or personal digital assistants. A user's cable or satellite TV can also be accessed as long as the video output is somehow hooked up to a home computer network.
Read entire story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=2&u=/ap/20041012/ap_on_hi_te/orb_networks).
Want to watch your HBO while waiting at the doctor's office, or use your cell phone instead of a portable music player to listen to songs from your home's digital jukebox?
The technology from Orb Networks Inc., based in Union City, grabs a user's music, video, or photo files stored on their home PCs and streams them to Web-enabled devices such as cell phones, laptops, or personal digital assistants. A user's cable or satellite TV can also be accessed as long as the video output is somehow hooked up to a home computer network.
Read entire story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=2&u=/ap/20041012/ap_on_hi_te/orb_networks).