[94256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Mon Jan 15 08:13:52 2007
In-Reply-To: <C09B9187-B63B-491E-8BEF-8117B1917095@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:13:11 +0000
To: Gian Constantine <constantinegi@corp.earthlink.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 12 Jan 2007, at 15:26, Gian Constantine wrote:
> I am pretty sure we are not becoming a VoD world. Linear
> programming is much better for advertisers. I do not think content
> providers, nor consumers, would prefer a VoD only service. A
> handful of consumers would love it, but many would not.
There are already cheap and efficient ways of doing VoD-like services
with a PVR - I timeshift almost everything that I want to watch
because it's on at inconvenient times. So shows get spooled to disk
whilst they're broadcasted efficiently, and I can watch them later.
Any sort of Broadcast-Video-over-IP system that employed that
technology would be a winner. You don't need to 'broadcast' the show
in real time either if it's going to be spooled to disk, even as it
is viewed.
-a
