[140720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed May 18 16:03:46 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinagNO0gA6P4BGpPfXKGqTpgME=kw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:02:19 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net> wrote=
:
> There was a lengthy discussion about that on NANOG a week or so ago. =A0I
> don't claim to understand all facets of multicast but it could be a sort =
of
> way to operate "tv station" type scheduled programming for streaming medi=
a.
> There's no way to pause, rewind or otherwise seek multicasted media thoug=
h.
> It would be going backwards in terms of what consumers want these days.
>
why not permit your users to subscribe to shows/instances, stream them
on-demand for viewing later... and leave truly live content
(news/sports/etc) as is, with only the ability to pause/rewind?
how is this different from broadcast tv today though?
