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

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com> wrote:
> On 5/18/11 2:33 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> > If we're really talking efficiency, the "popular" stuff should probably
> > stream out over the bird of your choice (directv, etc) because it's hard
> > to
> > beat millions of dishes and dvr's and no cable plant.
> >
> > Then what won't fit on the bird goes unicast IP from the nearest CDN.
> > Kind
> > of like the "on demand over broadband" on my satellite box.  Their
> > selection
> > sucks, but the model is valid.
>
>
>
> If someone hadn't mentioned already, there used to be a usenet provider that
> delivered a full feed via Satellite.  Anything is feasible, just have to

doug went out of that business, it wasn't (apparently) actually viable.