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> HOWEVER, most of the 24x7 media sites (CNN, etc.) are doing on-demand > video, rather than streaming a constant feed. 1) rights 2) unicast doesn't scale to the sort of audiences of radio/tv broadcasts and if you try it becomes financially unviable too (even with people attempting to fake multicast, e.g. Akamai) One way to manage both is to use the VCR model > On the one > hand, content providers aren't offering 24x7 multicast feeds because there > isn't enough multicast access at the end-points. We offer it regardless but there's not many can use it > Apart from 24x7 broadcast there isn't an obvious killer app. And there's reasonable argument over making the intenet = tv brandon
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