[94079] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Vegoda)
Tue Jan 9 09:11:32 2007
In-Reply-To: <03235919BBDE634289BB6A0758A20B36FD964B@NT-SJCA-0751.brcm.ad.broadcom.com>
Cc: "Gian Constantine" <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:10:12 +0100
To: Bora Akyol <bora@broadcom.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 9, 2007, at 1:51 AM, Bora Akyol wrote:
[...]
> I would argue that other than sports (and some news) events, there is
> pretty much no content that needs to be real time.
I'm not sure I agree. I've noticed that almost any form of live TV,
with the exception of news and sports programming, uses the benefit
of real time transmission to allow audience interaction. For instance:
- Phone in discussion and quiz shows
- Any show with voting
- Video request shows
Not only does this type of programming require real-time
distribution, as these shows are quite often cheaper to produce than
pre-recorded entertainment or documentaries they tend to fill a large
portion of the schedule. In some cases the show producers share
revenue from the phone calls, too. That makes them more attractive to
commissioning editors, I suspect.
Leo
