tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3163661793340851130.post1477662716027058653..comments2023-04-11T04:30:19.834-05:00Comments on Thought Garage: Orb MyCasting - Confused! Complicated!Muralihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05130348224222189516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3163661793340851130.post-11826952948113700962006-11-17T09:16:25.000-06:002006-11-17T09:16:25.000-06:00hey murali!much like Skype - which turns your PC i...hey murali!<br><br>much like Skype - which turns your PC into your personal telephony system - Orb turns your PC into your personal broadcasting system, "mycasting" ALL your content to you wherever you have the Web<br><br>when you think about your home music collection, the huge convenience of a system that uses what you have already - instead of asking you to upload content to an online service - becomes really clear<br><br>all the music - or home videos, or recorded TV shows, or photos, or downloaded podcasts - that users already have on their hard drives is INSTANTLY available to them EVERYWHERE they have the Web once the small piece of Orb freeware's installed on that PC; compare that with the time (never mind the privacy issues) involved in uploading massive quantities of your personal content to someone else's server<br><br>and: serverside solutions for economic reasons have to make broadcast choices about what format/bitrate combinations they can afford to stream. which means, for your own stuff, you might very well either not be able to stream your content at all to your mobile device at any given moment, or that it might be downsampled needlessly. since Orb uses your OWN infrastructure to do the transcoding, however, your content gets mycasted to you by your own PC at the best quality you can handle at the moment you want it<br><br>the new wifi-enabled phones are a great example of how cool this is: when i'm on my nokia N80 and move from my somewhat-weak EDGE connection on Cingular to a full multi-meg WiFi hotspot, i want to take full advantage of it for my streamed TV, youtube videos, etc.!<br><br>and remember that all this restreaming is done on the fly, without the permanent creation or download of alternate copies, so that whatever you can enjoy at home, you can enjoy everywhere; last thing you want is to have to download files to your mobile device when all you want to do is show the person standing next to you a hilarious youtube clipian at orbhttp://www.orb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3163661793340851130.post-79825722183144497132006-11-17T11:47:14.000-06:002006-11-17T11:47:14.000-06:00Thank you very much Ian for your comments. The ide...Thank you very much Ian for your comments. The idea is very powerful. What I am not comfortable is running my own server on my computer.<br><br>1. Always ON computer and Always Connected to the Network are not some things that can be taken for granted, atleast in my case.<br><br>2. If one or more family members are using the service, I don't think I will be able to use my computer for my work or whatever I am doing. So, If I ever want it, I am not running on my laptop definitely. Alternately, I can buy a server, $200-$300 barebones PC to run it. Or a Sling box (with storage) approach would be quite wel<br>come too.<br><br>3.It will be great for listening to music or watch videos on my Mobile, for myself. But if I want to share my videos/music collections with friends, I still prefer a network based solution. I don't think any desktop computer can take the beating of 10+ simulataneous users.<br><br>4. A little lack of quality in Server side solution is okay for me. When YouTube converts my video to flash, it looses quality. But that is still pretty good to me. I am not quite bothered if there are 40000 hits in a week or 100 hits a week.<br><br>5. Uploading is just one time activity.I am okay to run my laptop for 24 hours to upload and then an hour now and then. Still better than running it all the time.<br><br>Privacy is a serious issue, though.muralinoreply@blogger.com