Helios, Torrentspy, Isohunt, Mininova
p2pnet news | Product News:- “So you got yourself a nice connected home theater setup,” posts P2P Blog:
A fat media server with up to a Terabyte of hard disk space. A media receiver that streams HD data to your living room. And of course a nice, big flat panel TV. So where do you get the media to enjoy with this setup? Well, of course Torrentspy and Minnova. At least that’s what the media center maker Helios Labs is suggesting.
It goes on, “Helios Labs has recently been running ads through Google Adwords, some of which appeared on this site, that read: ‘BitTorrent to your TV. Download. Connect. Watch on the big screen’.”
It also features the logos of Torrentspy, Isohunt and Mininova, “as well as a TV screen with images from the popular TV shows House and Heroes,” says the story, pointing out, “Many electronics makers have been running ads on Torrent websites for years,” and adding:
“They tend to blame ad agencies for these campaigns, but of course it’s only logical that they would go where their customers are. You just usually don’t expect them to be as honest about it as Helios Labs.”
Very interesting.
Also interesting is that Helios has a long-standing relationship with RealNetworks, owner of the corporate P2P file sharing application, Rhapsody.
Enter Helix, described by the Wikipedia as a, “project to produce software that can play audio and video media in various formats, aid in producing such media, and serve them over a network.
“It is intended as a largely free software/open source digital media framework that runs on numerous operating systems and processors (including mobile phones) and was started by RealNetworks which has contributed much of the code.”
Stay tuned.
Also See:
P2P Blog – Media center maker endorses Torrentspy and Mininova, September 14, 2007
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