Olelo Community Television's new, trial digital community television service looks like it is helping fill the gap left when according to Public Court Documents on Maui, Akaku: Maui Community Television Lawyer Lance Collins sued a local Maui non-profit charity, requested and received a preliminary injunction from a Maui Circuit Court to enforce the denial of access of Pulelehua, Maui Community Television to the approximately thirty thousand viewers a month that were freely receiving the digital community television service via a public access "website" the non-profit charity's students had created specifically to bring Public Access community television to the outer Islands, especially Molokai and Lanai, where access to this crucial public resource is especially needing and access to the cable television system has not been provided, during these tumultous times of land use upheavel, the destruction of natural resources, the seasonal availability of clean, drinkable water, healthy food and the escalating cost of energy.
The new service is called Olelonet Community Programming and fortunately appears to be based on the same Maui Media Lab LLC, Digital Television, IPTV Netcasting, video on demand technology that has been providing digital community television and radio service throughout and for the Kingdom of Hawaii since 1998 and throughout the rest of the world since 1994.
However, unlike the litigiously shuttered (sued out of existance,) student run Pulelehua, Maui Community Television service which also appeared to be based on Maui Media Lab LLC's digital television netcasting system, Olelo.net is presenting their trial Community Programming service using Microsoft Windows Media Encoding, which limits access to the service to computers running Microsoft Windows on a fast, broadband Internet connection. Other computer users need to download and install the required Windows Media Plugin if available.
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