David Zax, Technology Review
Aereo came to New York on Wednesday, and as Technology Review’s man in the Big Apple, I took the service for an initial quick spin. First of all, what is Aereo? It’s a service that streams over-the-air local TV to a device of your choosing (provided, for now, that the device of your choosing is an iOS device or a PC or Mac running Safari). It’s a technological feat Aereo has pulled off by engineering tiny TV antennas and locating them, en masse, in data centers; these data centers can then stream the TV to you instantly over your Internet connection. Aereo is also in a bit of legal hot water, since Aereo is doing all this without paying TV stations a licensing fee that they claim they’re entitled to. TR’s Brian Bergstein has given a good overview of what he calls “a legal show worth watching,” one that has yet to reach its finale.
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