{"id":546978,"date":"2005-10-10T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546978-web-based-video-far-off.html"},"modified":"2005-10-10T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T00:00:04","slug":"web-based-video-far-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546978-web-based-video-far-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Web-based video far off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">News.Com reports that the likely reason for the delay is the fact that cable and satellite TV companies want to protect their turf and continue to make consumers buy 200 channels worth of content. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is quoted as saying he is confident the forces of freedom will win, but it will take a long time. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">There are also technological reasons likely to cause delays. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Hastings points out that video-over-the-Web must be good enough for fancy equipment, like 50-inch plasma TVs, saying the Internet is not quite geared up for that yet. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downloading TV shows from a Web site is a long way off, according to a panel of Internet executives meeting in San Francisco to discuss the future of entertainment and media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}