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Brandon; > > 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 The straight forward model to support the audiences of raiod/tv by the Internet is to integrate the Internet with broadcasting by sending IP (multicast) packet over radio wave. Masataka Ohta
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