[opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless...
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:40:08 -0400
Some of the news servers can download 3-4-5 mbps on individual
demand to current broadband subscribers. Given AVC encoding and
the inevitable decline in prices with bigger pipes and Internet
advertising supported high quality HD VOD soon becomes feasible,
even without multicasting. (except for piratephobia)
- Tom
Kon Wilms wrote:
> Walled garden datacasting of 'internet data' to consumers using PC
> receivers, no matter the size or manner of the content, in the age of
> distributed p2p networking ala BitTorrent, is a dead business.
>
> The only datacast delivery mechanisms worth anything are b2b walled
> garden (digital signage, education, professional receiver delivery),
> tie-in value-added content (ITV or data synchronized with programming
> content), mobile content delivery, and device management (firmware,
> etc.).
>
> It is however interesting to see people continue to bring up failed
> business models like delivering content I can download off a cable modem
> or DSL line, or talk about the huge problems we face with large popular
> file downloads when P2P distribution and file swarming has solved this.
>
> Cheers
> Kon
>
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 20:19 -0400, Tom Barry wrote:
>
>>A sort-of walled garden might be my news group provider. I
>>currently don't pay by the month but instead pay $40 for every 100
>>GB downloaded, over whatever period of time.
>>
>>You could imagine an ISP with that model being willing to host
>>lots of the type of content discussed below, with the users just
>>on a bit meter much as you'd pay for electricity or water.
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