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Re: PAIX

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Sat Nov 16 07:22:07 2002 






- While we're on the topic of local video, what happens when

television migrates to IP networks?




Why should it? There's a cheap, ubiquitous, widely deployed broadcasting
medium already. I never understood network integration for the sake of
network integration.




That medium only works for large audiences. It does not address
geographically

large sparse audiences at all.




In any case, TV (of all things) does not have problems with latency or
jitter below 10s of seconds.  All TV content is pre-packaged.




Live events and interactive show's are not. In some cases you start to
suffer if your

latency goes to multiple-seconds range. That's quite rare anyway, >500ms

network latency is quite rare and add few hundred codec and de-jitter
latency and

you'll find that excessive jitter is your enemy, not the latency itself.



Pete