Thursday, March 31, 2005

Orb Networks Drops Subscription Fees, Streaming Media Service Now Free to All Users

From ehomeupgrade.com:
Orb Networks, Inc., a developer of streaming media software and services, today announced the company’s groundbreaking streaming media software, Orb Media, will now be FREE to all users. Orb’s software and service gives consumers the ability to spontaneously access their live TV, music, photos, videos, and other digital content located on their home PC from virtually any Internet-enabled device, from anywhere in the world, and now provides that service without adding any new monthly fees for new and current customers. Additionally, Orb has added a new Photo Sharing service to its solution allowing customers to share all of their selected photos with friends and family at any time.

Orb’s mission is to provide consumers with the easiest, most innovative way to access their digital home media files wherever they are. The Orb solution is available to the millions of Windows® XP operating system and Windows® XP Media Center Edition users in the United States and is now made even more convenient for users to access their digital worlds by providing Orb Media absolutely FREE.

This is exactly what I have been envisioning for some time now: a service that lets you access the music, video, tv, photos, etc. on your home computer from anywhere via the Internet. This service makes that functionality easy and accessible to the average computer user. It's not as sophisticated as the 1337 h@ck3r5 would want, but that's OK...

1 comment:

JNB said...

I was so excited when I saw this! It has some of the features I have been looking for. BUT, I need CPU of 2.4 Ghz. I'll have to wait until I get a new computer. Yet I am still excited that this kind of thinking is going on in the computer world. Just last night I was trying to work out how to get things to Dad's ipaq, so it's ironic that this AM you blogged this.