| We have the technology.... ...for Cuban's specific examples, anyway. Delivering the Superbowl or American Idol in HD in realtime requires two things, both of which we have today
1) IP Multicast. The technology exists, though it's not currently implemented in a manner which makes this possible. No breakthrough is necessary, merely grunt work. With multicast, you have one path between the source node and any given subscriber node, not multiple.
2) Pipes big enough to get one HD stream through every link in the system. Again, this doesn't require any breakthroughs.
Of course, this would be a pretty silly use of the internet. The other technology we have which does this (satellites, cable, and TV broadcasting) is optimized for this sort of thing. |
| This should go into the bucket with bill gates and the maximum of 640k of memory, and al gore saying he invented the internet. I do not agree with Mark on this, as the rate at which technology improves will only come to realization sooner in the future. Maybe 10 years, and this will be laughable.. |
