Choke! Choke! Choke!
I read an article about video choking the Internet. One quote caught my attention and therefore my rage as well.
"But if the customer starts watching internet TV like the average household watches regular TV, 8 hours a day, BellSouth's cost would go up to $112 a month, according to Kafka."
Few things about this one:
1. That's far too many hours to watch TV. For any household.
2. What is this stat based on? Four person family? Shut-ins? TV store front windows?
3. Does that number include advertising?
4. Seriously, that's too much TV. It's an entire work-day of TV.
If it includes advertising, then they can reduce the proposed cost-per-hour of the pipleline as traditional models will have advertising pay for itself. If I'm watching streaming online content at "tv quality" resolution at hours at a time, it's also likely being piped in from the major studios.
Therefore, it's harder to pin this on stealing and piracy.
YouTube has a time-segment restriction. I imagine Google Video does too.
Higher resolution streams only come from the studios and networks. Everything else is either crunched into Flash, Quicktime, RealPlayer or Windows Media. Failing those, it's downloaded as a single file and thereby not streaming. But that's just nit-picking.
If someone is watching 8 hours of streaming content in Hi-res; they're idiots.
Use the device that's best suited for that: the TV itself.
How can we get the benefit of streaming online content, the user-based control that seems to draw people from traditional means? Unlock the TiVo or PVR. Start from there. The reasons people are jumping ship from a closed, mysterious cable box to their home PC are control, commercial-free, and content.
That and I can watch the entire first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica for free.
"But if the customer starts watching internet TV like the average household watches regular TV, 8 hours a day, BellSouth's cost would go up to $112 a month, according to Kafka."
Few things about this one:
1. That's far too many hours to watch TV. For any household.
2. What is this stat based on? Four person family? Shut-ins? TV store front windows?
3. Does that number include advertising?
4. Seriously, that's too much TV. It's an entire work-day of TV.
If it includes advertising, then they can reduce the proposed cost-per-hour of the pipleline as traditional models will have advertising pay for itself. If I'm watching streaming online content at "tv quality" resolution at hours at a time, it's also likely being piped in from the major studios.
Therefore, it's harder to pin this on stealing and piracy.
YouTube has a time-segment restriction. I imagine Google Video does too.
Higher resolution streams only come from the studios and networks. Everything else is either crunched into Flash, Quicktime, RealPlayer or Windows Media. Failing those, it's downloaded as a single file and thereby not streaming. But that's just nit-picking.
If someone is watching 8 hours of streaming content in Hi-res; they're idiots.
Use the device that's best suited for that: the TV itself.
How can we get the benefit of streaming online content, the user-based control that seems to draw people from traditional means? Unlock the TiVo or PVR. Start from there. The reasons people are jumping ship from a closed, mysterious cable box to their home PC are control, commercial-free, and content.
That and I can watch the entire first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica for free.
3 Comments:
What load of crap from the ISP!
If they are worry about 'polluting' the web with your 18-wheeler-HD-video on the information superhighway, I might agree with tolled internet. There are too many garbage in cyberspace.
But justifying by cost? What are you, a business-man trying to con us into thinking you are not a business man? Can't do the math? Hire an accountant. A lawyer. A systems analyst. Watch TV for 8 hours too; there might be your answer to offset the $112 there.
If your marketing research shows a 'fu@ked-up' group that watches TV 8 hours a day THROUGH THE INTERNET, maybe you ought to be just as 'fu@ked-up' and offer the pipelines for free. After all, perpetrating this trend will net your advertising dollars. Out the whazoo.
Pick-pocket is a crime. Picking-our-pockets with law on your side doesn't make you guilt-free. Don't listen to the tele-evangelists, okay?
What load of crap from the ISP!
If they are worry about 'polluting' the web with your 18-wheeler-HD-video on the information superhighway, I might agree with tolled internet. There are too many garbage in cyberspace.
But justifying by cost? What are you, a business-man trying to con us into thinking you are not a business man? Can't do the math? Hire an accountant. A lawyer. A systems analyst. Watch TV for 8 hours too; there might be your answer to offset the $112 there.
If your marketing research shows a 'fu@ked-up' group that watches TV 8 hours a day THROUGH THE INTERNET, maybe you ought to be just as 'fu@ked-up' and offer the pipelines for free. After all, perpetrating this trend will net your advertising dollars. Out the whazoo.
Pick-pocket is a crime. Picking-our-pockets with law on your side doesn't make you guilt-free. Don't listen to the tele-evangelists, okay?
I think that they are getting scared... The internet is really close right now to being able to offer media with the same convenience as the old media's like tv and radio... It's close to being able to take over and offer cheeper, less controlled infotainment. American capitalism has been doing everything up to banning their favourite cigars to hold the communists off, and where do we see the revolution? electronic, and amungst us. We have things evolving like the linux community where people are working together to Fu@k the man... it's got them scared that maybe they gave us too much too easy already and we aren't looking quite enough like the incapable plebs that they need to work in thier money factories and promote their message. Sure they get their cut on advertising, but they don't want a little cut, they want it all.. paid for several times over by those who can't function without them.
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