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YSTV broadcasts across campus by using compserv's network, with streams terminating at individual 'drain' computers, which display the stream full screen. | YSTV broadcasts across campus by using compserv's network, with streams terminating at individual 'drain' computers, which display the stream full screen. | ||
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YSTV and URY used this network from the early 90s until around 2008 when it was "replaced" by an IP-Based system. | YSTV and URY used this network from the early 90s until around 2008 when it was "replaced" by an IP-Based system. | ||
There aren't many ways of sending video via cable accessible to YSTV anymore. Although we still technically own the broadcast network. The university estates dept have done a pretty good job of hiding what is left of the Reddiff / ystv system, although there are still a few points where you can still witness the sh**ness of the mammoth network. | There aren't many ways of sending video via cable accessible to YSTV anymore. Although we still technically own the broadcast network. The university estates dept have done a pretty good job of hiding what is left of the Reddiff / ystv system, although there are still a few points where you can still witness the sh**ness of the mammoth network. As reddiffusion's signal quality is "rubbish" and the system was too much to manage, it has been mainly abandoned. Should you ''actually'' want too use it in future, be warned: the bandwidth in some bits of connecting hardware/electrics is really really small, really covered in asbestos, and really painful to get to - estates ain't gonna let you in those asbestos filled vent rooms and covered walkways.... | ||
