Posted by Patrick Joseph McNamara on 02/27/06 16:24

"Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I just downloaded and watched the lecture video about the Future of
> Bittorrent and TV broadcasting. It was pretty interesting if at times
> seemingly shortsighted. Still it brings up some nice points (and some
> bad ones, the future of advertising on shows might be BUGS? :P ).
>
> I get the feeling that while he is good-intentioned and fairly
> well-researched, the future of tv broadcasting might not fall into any
> fo the forms he mentions.
>
> Here's a link to the video.
> http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ZQ4SK7EK83243528BD0H3QSLS
>

I've only caught a clip of it so far. The download page has constant popups
asking for password (which I cancelled).

I think the speed of the Internet is still too slow for downloadable TV to
overtake broadcast, but it seems that the stations are trying to create a
PPV format for it which will eventually fail. It's impossible to eliminate
file sharing systems. And people really don't want to pay for individual TV
shows. They're better going for some model which allows free broadcast,
maybe something with ads inserted into the broadcast.

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