[142332] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 22 17:12:01 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E0242EF.8000600@mompl.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:07:21 -0700
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Joe Greco wrote:
>> that things are changing. The number of TV's in a household are =
going
>> up. Some can now stream directly to the TV. I have numerous devices
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> How can it go up even more? I thought every bedroom and living room =
has one by now, in the average family house. In my experience families =
have fared pretty well getting these TV signals through more traditional =
means.
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>> that stream Internet radio audio, something that would have seemed
>> completely frivolous 15 years ago, but today my AV receiver comes =
with
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> There has been in place for many decades multiple perfectly viable =
alternatives of getting TV or radio signals into your house. Using your =
good old antenna, satellite, cable... Considering these alternatives I'd =
say the idea of the internet replacing old existing infrastructures =
shouldn't be the top priority.
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> Now if you mean added functionality or special ways of doing things =
that delivering content over the internet can provide I can see a point.
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> Be that as it may, I don't think current methods and techniques in use =
will scale well to fully replace antennas, satellite and cable to =
provide tv and radio signals.
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> (remembering for example the recent discussion about multicast)
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They won't, but, that's not what consumers think about when they decide =
where to get their content.
Consumers look at convenience, cost, and availability. In some cases, =
quality also enters the picture.
If you don't believe that consumer content acquisition is shifting away =
from traditional methods towards internet-oriented mechanisms rapidly, =
you haven't been paying attention to the bandwidth growth at Netflix as =
just one example. Hulu, Youtube, and even the various networks own =
web-based episode streaming services are all additional examples that =
cannot be ignored.
We're going to have to either find a way to convince consumers to change =
direction, or, we're going to have to develop new methods and techniques =
that will scale to fully replace antennas, satellite, and cable because =
that's what consumers are starting to do.
Owen
