Streaming video is what we - a generation of TV viewers – grew up with. You watch what is broadcast when it’s broadcast as it’s broadcast. You blink; you miss something. Something disrupts the signal; a fragment of what you’re watching is gone forever. Doesn’t matter whether the content is as fresh as today’s sports event or as stale as a Bogart movie; it comes streaming at you. That’s what broadcast TV technology delivered and that’s what we consumed.
It’s absurd, however, to assume that streaming video is what we want. This absurd assumption is nevertheless behind much of the planning – especially by traditional telecom carriers – for the next generation of Internet.
Tom Evslin
Tom, you miss the important feature of the Internet: Interactivity!
That is what makes IPTV alluring.
Communication, do you remember? It's all what we are screaming and shouting since long.
Internet is the network of networks, it can put together people who are millions miles away, it gives voice to ones who wouldn't have one...
You forget that the most requested feature in EVERY entertainment IS being a part of it...
If you download and you look at it you have a may be cheaper, may be more comfortable, may be more used copy of the actual TV.
But we want something DIFFERENT, don't we?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Stumble It!
1 comment:
Patrizia:
As usual you're a step ahead of me. The interactivity is VERY important (upcoming post) which is just one of many reasons why bandwidth shouldn't be locked up for dedicated uninterruptible down-streaming.
Post a Comment