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RE: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...]
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:17:45 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Bora Akyol wrote:
He hasn't taken broadcast TV delivery into account in the Triple Play scenario. You gotta plumb them packets good for that...I don't watch anything live anymore, all via Tivo. If Tivo could do bittorrent and download the content, then would I need broadcast?
Broadcast remains an extremely efficient method for bulk distribution of content to those TiVo's even if you watch everything on a delay. Some grad student can probably write a thesis what the cross-over point is for different use conditions. FedEx vs. P2P vs. Unicast vs. Broadcast vs. ??? I think BitTorrent is successfull because that's where the content people want is. I don't think users actually care much about the protocols. We've seen how fickle users can be, quickly migrating to different protocols/applications depending on where the content they want is. Are there any Gopher servers left?
TV model is going to change significantly in the next 3-5 years.
I'll agree, but I have no idea how. Most of the predictions will be wrong, they always are. I've seen a lot of cool future stuff from various companies and individual inventors. But it will be the consumer that decides the winners.
Current thread:
- Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Scott Weeks (Feb 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Bora Akyol (Feb 06)
- Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Christian Kuhtz (Feb 06)
- RE: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Sean Donelan (Feb 06)
- Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Christian Kuhtz (Feb 06)
- Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Sean Donelan (Feb 07)
- Re: Triple Play [was: CAUTION: Potentially Dumb Question...] Christian Kuhtz (Feb 07)