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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

  • From: Andy Davidson
  • Date: Mon Jan 15 08:15:02 2007



On 12 Jan 2007, at 15:26, Gian Constantine wrote:

I am pretty sure we are not becoming a VoD world. Linear programming is much better for advertisers. I do not think content providers, nor consumers, would prefer a VoD only service. A handful of consumers would love it, but many would not.

There are already cheap and efficient ways of doing VoD-like services with a PVR - I timeshift almost everything that I want to watch because it's on at inconvenient times. So shows get spooled to disk whilst they're broadcasted efficiently, and I can watch them later.


Any sort of Broadcast-Video-over-IP system that employed that technology would be a winner. You don't need to 'broadcast' the show in real time either if it's going to be spooled to disk, even as it is viewed.

-a