I did a blog post on this very topic last year.

http://johnsokol.blogspot.com/2010/11/increasing-internet-reliablity-dual-wan.html

Use a cable modem and DSL at the same time.
Xincom XC-DPG502
TP-Link TL-R480T+

Sounds more like Google's plan,

mod parent up please.

I am working on building out the Amorphous OS, (you can Google it) Firefox or something like it would be a big part of it's functionality.

>The 'browser as an OS' concept is still stupid.
Yes, we already have browsers,

A Cloud based OS and blurring the lines between OS executable binaries and HTML though isn't a stupid idea.

I've already given a talk at BAFUG, and am preparing presentations and design docs for each subsystem.

True,
    Skype was initially about the tech, but also a customer base. With WebRTC out there, the value of the tech drops fast leaving just the customer base which most likely hit staturation, and was starting to decline.

Yup, your heard me, Global IP Solutions that was aquired last year by google was maker of the Engine that Skype was using.

Looks like they parted ways back in 2007 with Skype 3.2.

Looks like Skype really shot them selves in the foot on this one, Google just opensourced it with a BSD style license and soon Skype will be history.
Which may explain why they sold off to Microsoft reciently.

You can read more on my blog post.
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/2011/06/webrtc-bringing-real-time.html

So what happens when someone streams CNN on justin.tv or ustream?
Many people are starting to cancel their cable service as the bills have started to become excessive and the content has gotten crappier. (or maybe it's just seems like it as I get older)

I really want to start a Cable TV service over the Internet , as in IPTV.
http://www.videotechnology.com/tv/ Try the space bar to change channels.

All the technology is in place for this already, and I know how to get legitimate content licenses.

So yesterday I spoke on the phone briefly with Steve Wozniak who expressed a slight interest. I really need to get sponsors and a few people with some pull to make these things happen.

I also am planning on starting an Open source project for an Alternative to Google TV (Android) called Amorphous OS, that's based on Linux.
http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/amorp/ I gave a talk on this 10 years ago, since then we have done some experients but I could really use some help on security and Object models.

We need the Open Source community to step up and own this technology otherwise we'll all be left out again like the Phone Companies and Microsoft did to us in the past.

I think an open source alternative to Google TV / Apple TV could easily find it's way in to Televisions if the effort is put in to such a project.

Few people realize that most of these BlueRay players, and Set top boxes such as TiVo are based on Linux already. What remains is the next layer up.
X windows is unacceptable for some things, and things like KDE and other windows managers just aren't consumer friendly.

Android's model of Apps is really out dated. Even Java Applets are more advanced in that they don't get "Installed" and "upgraded" or "updated"
I want to take this to another level for the way applications are build, offered, managed and secured.

I believe that Amorphous OS can be the way to do this, with Micropayment it could even make the Open Source Model profitable and still remain open.

Anyone with any real interest can reach me at videotechnology.com

John

I have been researching this now for several years. That how to make due without Cable TV and the Difference in Internet vs. Cable for TV viewing.

There are a few things there the Live streaming channels are really missed.
So I have created a site to reproduce these.

http://www.videotechnology.com/tv/ It's mostly news for now. I will be adding sports and music next.

I also have started http://utvii.com/ but this is still under works.

At http://www.videotechnology.com/ I am also writing articles on this subject for my main web site.

I have a business plan for delivering full cable TV over the Internet right now that I am still finishing up and have some people interested in funding.

This sounds a lot like my SETINE idea, "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Near Earth" http://www.setine.com/

For this I was thinking of having 2 camera, wide angle high res still , and a Servo controlled 1080i HD camera with 35x Zoom like they use in high end CCTV systems.

The idea is the one camera would spot objects in the sky that don't follow expected patterns. The second on would zoom in and track it, and record it.
These could then be collected on the Internet and use crowd sourcing to ID objects and improve image processing algorithms for object identification.

> most technically knowledgeable film editors and sound designers
Clearly optics isn't one of his strengths.

Anything beyond around 20 feet in a dark theater is infinity focus for the human eye and more like 6 feet in daylight.

What this means is your eye focuses the same for any objects 20 feet away or further, Such as when sitting in a theater.

So as long as the 3D isn't projecting images out of the screen at you, your eyes aren't going to notice anything unusual in focusing.

So it's all up to how the 3D content was shot.

Technical details:

What we want to know is the hyper focal distance of the eye,.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocal_distance The closest point of focus at a given aperture, at which infinity falls within the Depth of Field

Optics of the human eye By David A. Atchison, George Smith PG 214 has a nice graph on this.
http://books.google.com/books?id=MHgx-jBA0TAC&lpg=PP11&ots=DGJxkLC644&dq=depth%20of%20field%20human%20eye&lr&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q=depth%20of%20field&f=false

Astronomers the maximum iris opening is 7mm this gives a max aperture is f/3.5.
Wikipedia says f/2.1 to f/8.3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apertures

The focal length of the eye is 17 mm http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/JuliaKhutoretskaya.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocal_distance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertseber/2372620675/ Optimal Aperture For Foreground Sharpness With Infinity Focus
http://www.dofmaster.com/charts.html
http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/technical/dofcalc.html

I have some article on my blog about 3D content issues.
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/2010/08/thx-and-blufocus-join-forces-to-certify.html
http://videotechnology.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-bad-3d-not-3d-glasses-gives-you.html

I have thought about P2P based VPN like networks, but there are political/legal issues with that.

Without a "legal entity" in charge they can just block it. Also it's not possible to grow it as a real network.

By copying the private corporate network model your afforded some legal protections and if they where to block it, they would also have to block every major corporations VPN's that they use for there employees to telecommute.

Another nice benefit is that it would be considered a private network and therefor free of public scrutiny to some extent. So pirated content could be argued to be view completely differently then on the open internet.

In addition as a real physical network, other networks could join, and people could become directly physically connected. T1's etc.

There are some real advantages.

I am thinking that replacing the protocol though would be the strongest way to differential it. Not sure how viable that is though.

But it could be free of the current DNS IETF system.

Most of you don't know the history, and are therefor doomed to repeat it.

For much of my life I have spent fighting the Ma Bell / AT&T monopoly. From the monopolistic control over Unix to all long distance services, to hicap pipes.
It wasn't until there breakup in the 80's that direct physical connection of modems was even allowed on to the phone networks.

Well we are down to the last few companies controlling the last mile, and many of the backbones. Legislation will just further this till we are all locked down to a few Internet services and the rest will be squeezed out or severely hampered.

IP TV and Cable TV over IP will be the largest changes coming. And companies like Cox and AT&T find themselves in a conflict of Interest.
Providing last mile Internet while at the same time watching it eat away at their cash cow, cable TV.

I think we can provide a VPN like tunneling service across the public Internet over to a private network. Most corporations already do this for their employees.
Getting that last mile has always been the hard part.

We could then make this private network host content only available on that network, but would anyone want too?

I mean if you are going to invest in a web server you'd want it to be accessible to as many users as possible.

Still I have some ideas I may be willing to discuss with an NDA.

For an interesting read checkout my ecip.com

A new language designed to "compile" or streamline translation in to many different language. One that contains the meaning structures needed to output English, Mandarin, Spanish or any other language on the fly..

I could easily see how you could import a doc from your native language and have it ask questions from the operator to clarify ambiguities in meaning that would effect translation.

Then we could run Ubuntu in a VM under Chrome.

I wrote this back in 2001, and it's still relevant!
http://www.dnull.com/dos/DOS-Block.htm

Running through something like a Citrix Netscaler helps filter out much if your lines aren't overwhelmed.
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=21679

There are a few other companies that seem to have a solution, but this really looks more like a CDN with enough capacity and some filters to ride out what ever attack could be launched at them.

http://www.prolexic.com/index.php/why-prolexic/ddos-mitigation-services/
http://www.arbornetworks.com/stop-ddos-attacks.html