| You sound sorta like Bill Gates when he claimed 640K would be more than anybody would ever need. Sorry, this just isn't the case. You are sitting on the horizon where video delivery by multiple agents using IP transport will pop-up all over the place. The Internet isn't just for data traffic anymore.
Just in the past six months, several broadcast networks (ABC, etc.)started offering the previous night's programming online for free download. Imagine what that will be like 12-months from now when you might have 50-100 channels doing this across the Internet.
With each increase in broadband capacity at the last-mile comes an increasing number of new applications for its usage. With a provider delivering 10Mbps downstream bandwidth you could easily deliver DVD-quality in streaming form under its original MPEG-2 format, or even HDTV via WMV or h.264. No need for the cable/satellite entities to stop you. Now imagine someone like ESPN offering you this kind of video service on live events for a fee. |
