Karl Bode
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Re: What he says isn't wrong.
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Want to deliver the SuperBowl or American Idol in HD in realtime to 10s of millions of simultaneous viewers ? Not in this lifetime without some breakthrough technology that hasnt been invented yet.
Bold is the part I find likely incorrect. And if live American Idol broadcasts are all broadband video needs to be on par with traditional cable television, consider me unimpressed with the argument. |
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Nightfall
My Goal Is To Deny Yours
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join:2001-08-03
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| said by Karl Bode  : quote:
Want to deliver the SuperBowl or American Idol in HD in realtime to 10s of millions of simultaneous viewers ? Not in this lifetime without some breakthrough technology that hasnt been invented yet.
Bold is the part I find likely incorrect. And if live American Idol broadcasts are all broadband video needs to be on par with traditional cable television, consider me unimpressed with the argument. I agree Karl
Broadband is a very young technology when you think about it. The first homes were being outfitted with broadband back in 1995. In 1996 is when @Home really started deploying to home in major cities. Gee, thats only 10 years ago. Who knows what will come in the next 10 years or 50 years for that matter.
He is right that HDTV is growing. People want to see more and more broadcasts of shows in high quality picture and sound. He is also right that we can't do that right now to millions of american homes over existing broadband. However, there are solutions that are being deployed such as fiber. New technology is on the horizon that will make bringing these things into the home a reality in the coming years.
Just not right now....
On a side note, am I the only one who actually admires Mark Cuban? True, he may be someone who overinflates himself, but the guy has a great business sense to him. Plus, I think of him as a pretty good entertainer. 
Just my .02 cents.
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RadioDoc
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Anyone besides me see irony in the technical quality increasing while the program quality decreases at an even faster rate? If I want "reality" I'll look out my window.
Cuban's a tool, but until someone figures out how to efficiently broadcast real HD content to millions of Internet receivers at a time at a cost comparable to current television he's right. Even cable companies have come to this realization, pushing their digital distribution deeper into the network to save bandwidth. Broadcast technology (yeah, even good old OTA) is far superior to individual connections to each receiver since it costs the same to transmit to one viewer as it costs for ten million. Imagine HBO having to run a separate cable to every subscriber. That's essentially what we've got now for Internet video. It is grossly inefficient.
True multicast would help. Where'd that end up anyway?
edit: word order
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wwdubbia
join:2002-06-03
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said by Nightfall :said by Karl Bode : quote:
Want to deliver the SuperBowl or American Idol in HD in realtime to 10s of millions of simultaneous viewers ? Not in this lifetime without some breakthrough technology that hasnt been invented yet.
Bold is the part I find likely incorrect. And if live American Idol broadcasts are all broadband video needs to be on par with traditional cable television, consider me unimpressed with the argument. I agree Karl Broadband is a very young technology when you think about it. The first homes were being outfitted with broadband back in 1995. In 1996 is when @Home really started deploying to home in major cities. Gee, thats only 10 years ago. Who knows what will come in the next 10 years or 50 years for that matter. and 3 years before that in the early 90's... 56k was groundbreaking to the average home user.
For Cuban to say that this is impossible is just to focus attention on his company. I remember when they said that CD's wouldn't replace cassettes, and if you had talked about something like the 'iPod' back then that would allow you to hold 10k songs in your pocket, you would have been locked up in the technoasylum.
There are different kinds of vision and Cuban obviously is short or narrow sighted. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
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said by Karl Bode : quote:
Want to deliver the SuperBowl or American Idol in HD in realtime to 10s of millions of simultaneous viewers ? Not in this lifetime without some breakthrough technology that hasnt been invented yet.
Bold is the part I find likely incorrect. And if live American Idol broadcasts are all broadband video needs to be on par with traditional cable television, consider me unimpressed with the argument. We went from barely being able to control flight to going into outer space and out own moon in under 100 years.
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wwdubbia
join:2002-06-03
Clinton, NY
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said by RadioDoc :Anyone besides me see irony in the technical quality increasing while the program quality decreases at an even faster rate? If I want "reality" I'll look out my window. I think it's a natural byproduct. You have to produce more content faster... quality is bound to suffer. |
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King P
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Unless you believe the argument that we didn't really go to the moon and that it was all a publicity stunt done in hollywood...  |
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moonpuppy
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| said by King P :Unless you believe the argument that we didn't really go to the moon and that it was all a publicity stunt done in hollywood... SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Or I'll punch you in the mouth.
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