GET your rain checks and excuses ready, the dreaded home movie is back with a
vengeance. And this time it won’t just be the occasional clip of your
neighbour’s camping holiday. Thanks to the Internet and satellite broadcasting
an endless stream of other people’s home movies will be beamed directly into
your home.
The idea of “personal broadcasting” comes from satellite operator Eutelsat,
which thinks that enough people use digital camcorders and computer editing
equipment for it to catch on. Trials of the service, called Open-Sky, start in
Italy next month.
Eutelsat is inviting home-movie makers to upload their videos…
