MikeStammer
No prison can hold me
Premium
join:2002-12-26
Aurora, IL | Has anyone seen or tried it?
i dont see how we currently have the bandwidth to do this yet. Even those of us lucky enough to have 6 Mb pipes seem limited. Is this HDTV quality or like streaming video quality? |
|
B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
| Was going to say something similar. We can barely get low-res streaming to perform reliably. Even for AUDIO.
The older linked thread indicates that Akimbo, at least, requires 700-1500k of steady bandwidth.
I just can't imagine how these things are going to fly.
If they're just going to perform time-shifted downloads, well, that's what BitTorrent is for, I guess. Not to mention PVR's.
-- B
--
In a realm outside causality and function |
|
Brown2
@rr.com
| reply to MikeStammer
My guess is its not 1080i HDTV quality. But more likely something like 480p quality.
But I can't see how they are going to make a business off of non-realtime video. All of these services so far are based on downloading the content to a local device and playing it back after it downloads. Especially when I can pay for service with my cable company and get real-time 1080i HDTV video. Which is going to let far better than anything these services can offer.
Until they get fiber video into the homes, you won't be able to really see anything close to cable TV with IP TV. The bandwith is just not there right now for true real-time video. |
|
B
Premium,MVM
join:2000-10-28 |
Dot Com Part II -- The Search For Bandwidth
-- B
--
In a realm outside causality and function |
|
jap
Premium
join:2003-08-10
038xx
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to B
May not be streamed. The BBC just started offering 3minute segments of their in-house, owned non-fiction (documentaries, nature shows, news, and the like) TV footage - some of it quite old. Their intent is to eventually offer all of their TV shows for download. I think the startups mentioned in this article are smart to get a jump on the content hosting prior to the demand spike because it's cheap for them to put it up, they get a jump on content conversion, practice at distributed bandwidth delivery, and the fiber base is going to grow fast, once it gets started. Market share, market share, market share.
The cool thing is such massive files in mass consumption will definitely drive us into intelligent peer-caching networks. Years of piracy has groomed the public to accept being part of the delivery system; I knew there was a silver lining to all this piracy! |
|
