Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ John Bailo ] on Wednesday 28 February 2007 09:13 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> AT&T Resumes Rollout for Cable TV
>>
>> Snore. Cable is dead.
>>
>> Bittorrent can deliver any show via the Internet.
>
> And if you use the official site and pay for "premium content" (which any
> sane person would not), then it'll only work in Windows Media Player, on
> Windows. That service was launched a couple of days ago. It's a recipe for a
> flop, just like the Zune's "squirting" feature, or the Origami, whose team
> apparently semi-abandoned the project.
>
He misses the point - bittorrent gets around the connectionless
networking problem by getting zero throughput, ie., using a terminating
buffer which is the full length of the whole transmission. Clearly,
this cannot be used for real-time broadcasting, and as you cannot
necessarily work out what everyone will want to watch in 5-10 hours
time, it cannot work for anything other than huge-lag content
distribution. Further if everyone starts using it, the connectionless
nature of the internet will drag throughput down to zero.
One day, you'll all work out what I was on about...
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