Technobabble #4

Internet Syndication of Arrested Development TV Series

Microsoft’s MSN video service has snagged syndication of the cult favourite TV show Arrested Development.

Suckle Virtually at the Teat of the Boob Tube

With new web services such as place-shifting, you’ll be able to watch your recorded TV programs from your TiVo, DVD, etc., via your mobile phone or a computer in some other location than your TV. But not everyone is happy about this new technology.

Or You Could Stay At Home

… And watch one of the 103-inch plasma TVs that Matsushita plans to sell next year. For a frame of reference, these TVs will be larger than a double-sized mattress.

Then Again

Infinera and Internet2 are working on next-generation Internet services of 40-100 Gbps (gigabits per second). For a frame of reference, that’s damn fast. (If my calculations are correct, 40 Gbps will let you download a 2-hr movie of 1280×800 pixels in about 5 seconds.)