[140726] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Wed May 18 16:17:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=begDX46GunOHmdJ4Yyu2rWcQrqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:13:59 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Landon Stewart <lstewart@superb.net> wro=
te:
>> There was a lengthy discussion about that on NANOG a week or so ago. =A0=
I
>> 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 med=
ia.
>> There's no way to pause, rewind or otherwise seek multicasted media thou=
gh.
>> 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?
>
It's not. These people need a pair of rabbit ears and a DVR.
CB
