[140728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed May 18 16:21:54 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:15:40 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=begDX46GunOHmdJ4Yyu2rWcQrqg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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?
for some of us, the thing that is wonderful about netflix is the long
tail. my tastes are a sigma or three out.
randy
