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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:44:31 -0500
On Jan 6, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:09:19AM -0600, Andrew Odlyzko wrote:2. The question I don't understand is, why stream?There are other good reasons, but fundamentally; because of live telivision.In these days, when a terabyte disk for consumer PCs is about to be introduced, why bother with streaming? It is so much simpler to download (at faster than real-time rates, if possible), and play it back.That might be worse for download operators, because people may downloadan hour of video, and only watch 5 minutes :/
Our logs show that, for every 100 people who start to watch a stream, only 2 or 5 % watch over 30 minutes in one sitting, even for VOD where they presumably have some interest in the movie up front, and more more than 9% will watch all of VOD movie, even over multiple viewings. This is also very consistent with time, but I don't have any pretty plots handy. (Our cumulative audience in 2006 was 2.74 million people, I have lots of statistics.)
So, from that standpoint, making a video file available for download is wasting order of 90% of the bandwidth used
to download it. Regards Marshall
--Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: colm +pgp () stdlib net
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- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?, (continued)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Roland Dobbins (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Roland Dobbins (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Colm MacCarthaigh (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Roland Dobbins (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Roland Dobbins (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Colm MacCarthaigh (Jan 06)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 06)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Michael . Dillon (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Alexander Harrowell (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Michael . Dillon (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Alexander Harrowell (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 07)
- Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Alexander Harrowell (Jan 07)