Sound & Video

Broadcast TV on Your Computer

I didn't know it until about a month ago, but there's this thing called DVB-T, a standard for digital video broadcasts (the "DVB" bit) by terrestrial broadcasters (the "T" bit). You can get really cheap little USB devices to receive and decode these broadcasts, and Gary brought one of them in to the meeting before last.

How Not to Be Seen

At Software Freedom Day, Hugh mentioned the burgeoning art form of machinima, and I played an example of a music mashup. Well, here's a machinima mashup (try saying that after a few shandies), combining Monty Python's "How Not to be Seen" sketch with the first-person shooter game, "Halo", to humorous effect.

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