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Re: Has anyone seen or tried it?
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.
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| 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! | |
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