[140767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Wed May 18 19:42:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DD457D3.501@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 19:42:15 -0400
From: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.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 7:35 PM, JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18/05/11 1:13 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>
>>
>> It's not. These people need a pair of rabbit ears and a DVR.
>>
>
> Roughly 90% of the content I'm interested in watching is not available over
> the air. E.g. Comedy Central, CNN, Discovery, Showtime/HBO, etc.
>
> jc
>
>
> Sure, but I'm guessing that something like that 80% of the content that 80%
of people watch *is* available on some satellite/cable channel.
IP is perfect for the long tail, and yes, some of are mostly consumers of
the tail :), but still, there is a win to be had on the front end of the
beast...
