A TARDIS gives you the entirety of time and space to visit at the touch (perhaps a whack) of a lever. Kamaelia Macro is a project to provide you with the same tools for TV -- to timeshift all TV -- to allow you to dip into any channel at any time and see all the sights you missed the first time around. Michael Sparks will show you Kamaelia Macro, how it works, how to build your own, and then show you what Kamaelia is really for.

Sparks will also describe Kamaelia's current big ticket problem -- tools for experimentation on technical aspects of putting the BBC's archive online. He'll show you how digital TV, TCP/UDP/Multicast servers, and game-based interfaces can be used together, and touch on the BBC's visual system construction tools and recent work involving nascent tools for 3D, P2P distribution, secure communictions, and how they do this in a scalable manner allowing reuse.

Finally, he'll illustrate that this ease and power comes from Kamaelia systems being parallel, but only in the similar way to Unix pipelines, and while designed to be novice friendly, also tested against novices. This provides Kamaelia's key aspect: any component can rapidly be used with anything else.

What could you do if you gave your PVR the ability to stream, blog, chat on IRC, 3D capabilities, games control, sketch on a whiteboard, recognize handwriting.... ?