{"id":1195,"date":"2005-06-03T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T18:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2005\/06\/03\/david-pogue-describes-akimbo\/"},"modified":"2005-06-03T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T18:35:17","slug":"david-pogue-describes-akimbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2005\/06\/03\/david-pogue-describes-akimbo\/","title":{"rendered":"David Pogue describes Akimbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a> Technology &gt; Circuits &gt; TV&#8217;s Future Is Here, but It Needs Work&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/tech2.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/02\/technology\/circuits\/02pogue.html?&#8221;&gt;The New York Times &gt; Technology &gt; Circuits &gt; TV&#8217;s Future Is Here, but It Needs Work<\/a><br \/>\nIn short Akimbo is developing a new set top box that allows downloads of TV shows off of the internet.  David describes the issues, such as lack of content due to piracy concerns and so on..<\/p>\n<p>I like the statement:<br \/>\n&#8220;This is piracy paranoia run amok. It&#8217;s insane to think that anyone would pay so much for cheesy cable reruns and oddities like three-minute how-to videos for new mothers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What he doesn&#8217;t mention is the serious amount of content being created by non-commercial interests and being distributed on the internet for free.  For any set top box to make it they have to offer what the cable\/tv companies don&#8217;t, media for the people by the people.  What good is using the internet without it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology &gt; Circuits &gt; TV&#8217;s Future Is Here, but It Needs Work&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/tech2.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/02\/technology\/circuits\/02pogue.html?&#8221;&gt;The New York Times &gt; Technology &gt; Circuits &gt; TV&#8217;s Future Is Here, but It Needs Work In short Akimbo is developing a new set top box that allows downloads of TV shows off of the internet. David describes the issues, such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2005\/06\/03\/david-pogue-describes-akimbo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Pogue describes Akimbo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-and-multi-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}