[140177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Wed May 4 12:26:20 2011
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 17:26:10 +0100 (BST)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the
> world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is
> amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely
> to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that
> situation already when it arrives.
Really? If anything, I'd say quite the opposite. Watching media in the time-slot that someone else has decided on is *so* 20th-century - I can't remember the last time I sat down to actively watch a programme in its original transmission slot. (As opposed to having the TV on as background, e.g. 15 minutes of breakfast news in the morning). I guess multicast to a recording application (or appliance) might work - but essentially my requirement is strongly skewed towards video-on-demand.
I have absolutely zero interest in sport of any kind though - I'm given to understand there's quite a high demand for live viewing of that.
Regards,
Tim.
