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The future of televisionhas a unique Prescottconnection.

Tim Veale and UnaRhodes, who live on So-phia Street, are the firstcustomers and were theinitial beta testers of astate of the art entertain-ment centre box manu-factured by Montrealcompany Liberty TV. Thebox has allowed them tocut off cable and satelliteservices completely, rely-ing solely on free off-the-air signals from an an-tenna and the selectionof channels on the Lib-erty TV box. That one-twopunch of antenna andbox has given the Prescotthome more channels andmovies than anyone elsein the town.

The Liberty TV box isunlike any other stream-ing box on the market. Itoffers unrestricted freeviewing of sports, moviesand live television showsfrom anywhere in the world using true 1080phigh definition. It’s a verysimilar concept to AppleTV, which offer restrictedservices and plenty ofpay-per-use and monthlyfees, but the Liberty boxunleashes everythingon the Apple TV and in-cludes everything else,

with no monthly fees.In a test at Veale andRhodes’ home this week-end, countless footballgames, hockey matchesand movies were avail-

able for instant or liveviewing and the picturequality was noticeablybetter than that of cableor satellite. There wereliterally hundreds of livechannels and thousandsupon thousands of mov-ies, all available throughany easy to use interface, which allows for precisechannel selection andcustom searches.

“We really love the Lib-erty TV box,” said Veale.“We don’t pay anythingfor TV, but we have 24 lo-cal channels off-the-air with our antenna and wecan watch anything we want with the box. I enjoythe search ability and Ican find anything I canthink of. Just last week I was able to watch a greatdocumentary I found onThe Eagles.”

Rhodes also notedthat she was even ableto watch old classic tele-vision programs like Gilli-gan’s Island if she felt like watching one.

Liberty TV is the visionand creation of AdamPhillips, a game develop-er who is also Rhodesson-in-law. He’s createdthree variations of media-streamers for Liberty TV- Prometheus, ValkyrieCore i5 and the custom

designed Ragnarök Corei7.Each box is actually

a mini computer aboutthe size of an Apple TV,but the main difference

between the two is thetechnology inside and thestreaming services usedto obtain TV signals andmovies. Unlike Apple TVor any other commer-cially available mediastreamer, Liberty TV useshigh-end computer pro-cessors and video chips,

while the others utilizetechnologies and partsfrom cell phones andtablets. The processingpower of the Liberty TVbox provides a stronger

and cleaner high defin-ition picture for both liveTV and archived movies.

“Liberty TV ultimatelyis a giant search enginethat finds publically avail-able content and providesit in an easy to use formaton your television,” Phil-lips noted. “The feeds

that it provides are un-blocked and unrestrictedand are usually in thehighest resolution avail-able. There is one add-on that can be installed

that provides upwards of1,300 channels and it’scompletely legal for any-one to use and watch.”

With the future of Can-adian television servicesbeing debated by the Can-adian Radio-televisionand TelecommunicationsCommission (CRTC) in

the last few weeks, manyhave been left wondering what it all means for tele-vision viewers. The battlecomes down to choicefor Canadians and theresults may mean highertelevision fees and moreout-of-country channelrestrictions across theboard. The CRTC has yetto announce any chan-ges, but services provid-ers like Bell, Shaw, Rogersand Cogeco have alreadypredicted the upcomingchanges will cost custom-ers more in an already ex-

pensive market.“We’re a grass rootscompany,” Phillips point-ed out. “We don’t do anymarketing or advertising, we rely entirely on peoplelike Tim and Una. Themore boxes that get outthere, the more peoplebecome interested in itand the more well sell. We have a rabid group offollowers on Twitter and we’re getting a lot of atten-

tion in the UK, where TVprices are much higherthan we pay here. Peoplein the UK are droppingtheir cost of living dra-matically just by watch-ing their TV through aLiberty TV box. “

Phillips’ goal is to re-move the barrier of the

CRTC for those who are willing to live without itsregulations and open upa world of Internet tele-vision with no restric-tions. He noted the Liber-ty TV boxes do not violateany Internet laws becausethey do not download anycontent and they addi-tionally don’t fall underany CRTC regulationsfor broadcasting. He alsomentioned that custom-ers do not have to payfees for the content at anytime and they’ll still havean unlimited selection

of TV, movies, NHL, NBAand NFL games to watch. All that’s required to

run any Liberty TV box isan unlimited 5mbps In-ternet connection, whichcan be obtained fromseveral area providers foras low as $39 per month.

Further informationon Liberty TV can befound on the company’s website at www.libertytv.ca.

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The Journal NEWSPrescott residents beta testing new television media box

Adam Phillips showcases the Liberty TV media box at the home of Tim Veale and Una Rhodes this past weekend. Phillipsis the son-in-law of Rhodes and is hoping the unlimited potential of the streaming media product will reduce the pricepeople pay for television. DAN SAVOIE PHOTO

Emergency crews responded to a garage fire at 696 East Street (at the corner of East and Wood Street East) on Mon-day afternoon. A wooden garage behind the home caught fire and was a burnt shell by the time firefighters put theflames out. DAN SAVOIE PHOTO

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