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  • The Swiss end of FM Broadcasting

    The Swiss end of FM Broadcasting

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWithin the next year FM broadcasting [will come to an end in Switzerland in 2024](https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/la-ssr-arretera-completement-la-diffusion-radio-fm-a-la-fin-de-l-annee-28552045.html) and people with old cars are sad. So are people who want to hold on to FM for nostalgic reasons. For hobbyists it’s a shame too, because then all FM radio equipment will become obsolete as we…

  • Leaving Netflix Soon

    Leaving Netflix Soon

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the last week, or less, I have been choosing what to watch, not based on what’s new, or recommended, but on what is leaving Netflix soon. With netflix it is very easy to think “I don’t know what to watch” and “I don’t want to watch anything that is being recommended.…

  • Content Ownership in the Age of Streaming

    Content Ownership in the Age of Streaming

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Guardian has an article from yesterday that dicussses the fragility of content ownership in the digital age. Specifically it looks at how [“My whole library is wiped out”](https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/14/my-whole-library-is-wiped-out-what-it-means-to-own-movies-and-tv-in-the-age-of-streaming-services) after a streaming service stopped streaming content. It told people “pay 200 USD to move to service B”. I encountered this issue eight…

  • Quai Des Brumes – Filmin and Film Culture

    Quai Des Brumes – Filmin and Film Culture

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFilmin is a Spanish video streaming site that offers old films, documentaries and television series. It provides an alternative to Netflix, Amazon Prime and other video streaming services that provide mainly mainstream films and television series. For a while I was watching Northern Exposure, a series that has not been broadcast for…

  • CuriosityStream – a place to find interesting documentaries

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I started exploring CuriosityStream, a video streaming website that makes finding and watching documentaries easy. You can have a trial run of seven days but after watching three documentaries since yesterday evening I am convinced that it is a place where I want to watch more content.  I like documentaries that…

  • Video piracy in the 21st century

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was watching a Magnum PI episode where Higgins had a film camera pointed at the television screen to record a game of snooker broadcast from “half way around the world” by satellite.  Today I noticed this article speaking of the way in which twitter’s Periscope app and Meerkat…

  • Eurovision coverage of the FIFA World Cup

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you are living within the European Broadcasting Union member countries you can access live footage of the FIFA World cup matches as well as highlights by going to EurovisionSports. Highlights are also included at the end of the individual games so that you may relive the highlights. There is also…

  • Vancouver live in Europe – Streaming

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe European Broadcasting union are providing live coverage of the Vancouver Olympic games to Eurovision member states. There are 6 live channels in Standard definition as well as a channel for certain events in high definition. Also available are the live broadcasts that members of the European broadcasting Union are making…

  • Qik, Snowfall

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere, some qik snowfall, on the last day of the year

  • View from the vineyards – Fun little trip

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteEveryone’s always sitting in an office or at least in cities. I’m breaking away from that to stream the countryside. Remind people that it also exists.