Article: P2P television

[hArTh]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/10/05/2232203.shtml?tid=188&tid=129&tid=95&tid=1

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[MaD]

Here in SA with Telkom's crippled, handicapped service you can probably watch one segment of Isidingo and a factually incorrect Telkom ad then you've hit your cap and int'l is unusable.

Tell me what were those trials for with the 1mbit movies?? There were a handful of flicks which were being tested by ppl all around SA, looked pretty promising in that we could watch streaming movies over DSL for a fee... someone must have hushed that when the word 'profit' was mentioned...


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[Spamtheman]

That does imply that watching Isidingo will not immediately cause your brain to rot thereby rendering you unable to operate a computer. The thought scares me.

 

[pat22]

Video on demand via existing phone lines is coming. It will be great to have say a library of 700,000 films and TV shows available anytime.

Bad news Mr Video.

 

[Spamtheman]

"Video on demand via existing phone lines is coming"

Kindly explain how you imagine this is possible, for any kind of decent streaming video you need at least 1 mbit connections. Secondly do you think we have a large enough market at the moment for any decent sized company to invest? Without enough financial clout to negotiate with existing licence holders where do you think content will come from?

I suspect a case of too much Isidingo watching.

 

[Perdition]

pat22's post is not without merit. Mr Video should certainly be looking into VOD and getting ready to introduce it the second it is viable here (and it will eventually be viable). In the US companies like Tivo and Netflix are experimenting with video on demand where you rent movies from Netflix and it is downloaded to your Tivo unit (via your broadband connection) for you to watch.

 

[Jerrek]

I hate to break it to you, but we've had Video On Demand for a few months now. It isn't anything new. The latest season of Stargate, for example, is available on my cable company's OnDemand channels. Just click, browse, and go.

Tivo and Netflix are doing it a little different. While it is similiar to OnDemand, it is not quite the same. One uses a broadband connection, and the other is obtained over your cable TV line.

 

[pat22]

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I suspect a case of too much Isidingo watching.
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Not at all. It won't be here for a while (maybe a long while) but VOD via broadband will be available soon. I forget where I read it, but the Eurozone phone companies and content providers are working on it.

Perhaps my post should have differentiated between us and them[xx(]