[3664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: audio/video again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geert Jan de Groot)
Tue Aug 6 06:26:58 1996
To: Henk Smit <hsmit@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 16:41:48 PDT."
<199608052341.QAA27605@hsmit-ss20.cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 11:07:20 +0200
On Mon, 5 Aug 96 16:41:48 PDT Henk Smit wrote:
> Yesterday I watch a "cyber-TV-program" on US TV. They showed a "cool
> screensaver" that was continuously displaying new stock quotes it was
> getting over the net. And another screensaver that displayed video
> pictures of the Olympic Games.
> What worries me here is that people are developing applications that
> use (lots of) bandwidth, even when people are not even using their
> computers.
Shouldn't be a problem if people have to pay for their traffic.
Assuming that there would be a way to listen to foreign radio
stations per telephone, how many people would make long distance
calls to feed their 'radio'?
geert jan
