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Posted by Goro on 02/28/06 15:31
Patrick Joseph McNamara wrote:
> "Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1141054262.317895.81990@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >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).
really? i dont get any popups at all, but theni'm using Firefox with
AdBlock and FlashBlock enabled so i don't get any btohersome stuff.
> 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.
Right now, nice Xvid encodes can be had for about 350MB per hour. the
715MB ones looks really nice, but the 200-350MB ones look fine. The
1/2hrs at around 150-200MB look alright also.
But now x.264/h.264 allows for higher compression ratios with better
picture fidelity. Combine the reducing filesizes with every-increasing
bandwidth (Cox just increased from 4Mbps to 6 for free and now offer
9Mbps for $15 more per month) and it gets ever-more reasonable.
Someone was even saying that they thought that video download could be
Broadband's killer app. After all, for just general web-browsing, who
cares about 2Mbps v 4 v 6 v 9? But for video downloads, you certainly
want more and more bandwidth.
It's not there yet, but with all the people doing the illegal
downloads, it's hard to see that we won't get to a legal form sometime
in the near future.
-goro-
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