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Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company


From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:02:19 -0400

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Landon Stewart <lstewart () superb net> wrote:
There was a lengthy discussion about that on NANOG a week or so ago.  I
don't claim to understand all facets of multicast but it could be a sort of
way to operate "tv station" type scheduled programming for streaming media.
There's no way to pause, rewind or otherwise seek multicasted media though.
It would be going backwards in terms of what consumers want these days.


why not permit your users to subscribe to shows/instances, stream them
on-demand for viewing later... and leave truly live content
(news/sports/etc) as is, with only the ability to pause/rewind?

how is this different from broadcast tv today though?


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