tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post116136555705758617..comments2023-09-11T08:58:24.710-06:00Comments on Reach Upward: When Will We Watch TV Over the Internet?Scott Hinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1162249009110860362006-10-30T15:56:00.000-07:002006-10-30T15:56:00.000-07:00Mormons already do ;)http://byu.tv/Mormons already do ;)<BR/><BR/>http://byu.tv/plaidspoliticshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00393586634918991649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1161625575328885842006-10-23T11:46:00.000-06:002006-10-23T11:46:00.000-06:00There's too many powerful interests at play in the...There's too many powerful interests at play in the IPTV market for it to lift off at all.<BR/><BR/>First, you have content providers. They live in a magical world where they think it's okay to charge more money to use a less expensive content delivery system. I don't understand that one bit. Most economists will tell you that a lowered cost of doing business should result in lower prices, not higher. It's more proof that they just don't get it.<BR/><BR/>Then you have the telecommunications cartel. In 1992, they defined broadband as 45Mbps service. Today, they define it as 200K service. That can barely muster a low-quality stream of video, much less a DVD. The biggest scandal is that they were supposed to deliver that 45Mbps to 86% of American homes by this year. In exchange for that promise, the 1996 telecommunications act gave them over $200B in concessions. Now that they've broken this promise, do you think they're going to give the money back? Not likely.<BR/><BR/>We're caught between clueless content distributors and greedy telcos. Between them, video over the Internet will be supressed until we can't stand it any longer. Thank goodness networks like UTOPIA give us a little glimmer of hope.Jesse Harrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468928702710912142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1161404185351460102006-10-20T22:16:00.000-06:002006-10-20T22:16:00.000-06:00Good points on the need to change financing models...Good points on the need to change financing models as we undergo change in the way media is served.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-1161379329462757782006-10-20T15:22:00.000-06:002006-10-20T15:22:00.000-06:00The blurring of the lines between media delivery i...The blurring of the lines between media delivery is definitely mind boggling. It won't be long before personal computing, mobile entertainment, and home-based entertainment will be served with the same hardware, from the same online sources.<BR/><BR/>One of the paradigms that will suffer is that of commercial advertising. We have TIVO at home, and almost NEVER watch commercials - but we also RARELY watch television programs live in real time either. <BR/><BR/>Networks are going to have to find new sources of revenue, because television advertisers who depend on eyeballs aren't getting their money's worth - and it's only going to get worse from here for them.<BR/><BR/>One of the companies on the forefront of this movement, a bandwidth optimization and supply company, is called Akamai Technologies. They, and others like them, will lead us into this new frontier. <BR/><BR/>Doesn't hurt to own their stock either.<BR/><BR/>:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com