| Brash but on Target. The Internet is not capable of distributing HD or mass market video. The Internet a almost 40 year old technology that was design to transmit 8 bit ASCII data between university research centers and DOD installations on robust network that can survive a nuclear strike. The problem I see with video over IP latency cause by the need to chop the video frame into packets, then are sent across multiple networks nodes, then reassembled at the customer end. This includes time used to correct errors cause when the data packet not arriving at the same time in the same order, or have been dropped and resent.
So far most Video over IP can be best seen on a 4 in window on my computer, forget about to fit the video on my 17in monitor less on the 32in LCD screen I am looking at. As much as internet technology speed improved, I still have to deal with frequent video hiccups. If that was not bad enough think what would happen if Google tried to offer live streaming of American Idol. Think of the bottle neck that would cause.
To me the solution is some type of dedicated network that bypasses the internet and connect ISP POP to ISP POP. The concept of a dedicated video network has long existed before the Internet took off. Corporate office used fractional T1 or T3 to transmit video conferencing or other video feed across campuses. This is what the Telco’s were trying to tell us before the net neutrality fanatics start screaming neutrality. |
