[opendtv] Re: News: Sirius Founder Says Company Won't Be Able To Compete
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:17:28 -0400
Streaming media becomes complicated when the bandwidth comes anywhere
close to the total average bandwidth you have available. Then you have
considerations of constant and max bit rates plus a significant time to
accumulate any sort of a safety buffer.
This used to be true for quality real time audio but these days an audio
stream takes only a small percentage of a broadband connection and
people can afford to be a bit sloppy, which simplifies things.
Likewise, streaming HD video still takes some cleverness on broadband
and is mostly not available yet for wireless mobile. But there is some
sort of Moore's law equivalent for wired and wireless broadband and it
should do for video the same as for audio. This should mostly reduce
the issue to a fight between rights holders and distributors.
Local TV broadcasters seriously need to start looking into streaming.
- Tom
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>> Hmmmmm... I think I predicted something like this a few weeks ago...
>
> Yes, you did. And this also has ramifications in the TV arena, not just
> OTA, but also DBS and cable broadcast.
>
> But I think this quote from the article misses the point:
>
> "Sirius (nasdaq: SIRI - news - people ) chief executive Mel Karmazin, of
> course, sees the company's prospects differently. In the same Fortune
> story, he says that despite the increased competition from internet
> radio, Sirius will be fine because it introduces listeners to new music
> that may not be in their iPod libraries and has exclusive content from
> sources like Howard Stern and CNN."
>
> The exclusive content aside, future competition to the broadcast media
> (OTA, stallite, and cable broadcast) is not so much from pre-recorded
> content downloaded from the Internet, but more from streaming media over
> wireless Internet. As wireless Internet expands its reach, e.g. over 3G
> and 4G telco links. IMO.
>
> I think that streaming media, over wired or wireless Internet, is
> considerably more complex than broadcast. Which is why it's taking so
> long to become a credible competitor to broadcast. But its time is
> coming.
>
> Bert
>
>
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