Web-like, broadband TV
p2p news / p2pnet:- Within the next 10 years, TV will be much more web-like, with millions of shows to download, says a new report.
TV piped into living rooms via broadband will completely change TV and the Net as we know them, say Lovelace Consulting and informitv, quoted by the BBC. And, “Within five years, the authors predict, many households will have their TV piped through a satellite dish, rooftop aerial or cable network, and through a broadband phone line,” says the story.
Net-based innovations and developments in digital TV have been more or less separate worlds, but today, they’re converging and the ‘pull’ of broadband network television will replace the ‘push’ of traditional broadcast television, according to co-author Graham Lovelace.
“This means that the control of what programmes and content is available to watch will move out of the hands of the traditional broadcasters and into the hands of the viewer.”
Traditional broadcasters have been “wrestling with technologies such as PVRs (personal video recorders) which allow viewers to take more control over what and when they watch” but “IPTV (Internet Protocol TV ) has the potential to disrupt that even more,” the BBC continues. “Hundreds of different programmes could be sent to different homes at the same time.”
The report seems to have missed the fact that, thanks to p2p, much of the above is already taking place.
Be that as it may, “genuinely interactive television” will also become more practicable but, “the real power of IPTV could be in its convenience and range of choice which the viewer will subsequently have, such as micro-local content,” says the BBC, adding:
“People could tune into live traffic camera streams, or film their own football teams to put on a local IPTV channel, as they do in Norway.
“In Italy, one man uses IPTV to deliver news to the rest of his apartment block; another films himself having breakfast with his blow-up doll.”
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BBC – Broadband to rule the TV waves, September 14, 2005
September 14th, 2005 at 3:49 pm
Thanks to peer to peer and many other other Internet protocols, I have enjoyed a much better TV viewing experience. I no longer have to put up with the crap that the satellite programmers and TV broadcasters foist onto me. Since TechTV changed its name to G4… and Leo Laporte left, it went from being a geek show to being another lamescream crap channel. I now get my geek TV from my broaband connection at work. I can download free (legal) programming that is more entertaining and informative than all the sex and violence laden drivel that makes up broadcast type media. When broadband is offered where I live, I will cancel my satellite service and download my entertainment. Choice is better for regulating TV than government rules.
I’m sure many others are going to do the same if they have not already done so. Rather than adapt and embed advertising into scenery, make movies that are actually entertaining, and charging reasonable fees for content, the media cartels would rather quash the competition and stifle innovation. First, they are trying to do this with frivilous lawsuits. Next, they will go after the coders of applications en mass, and when that fails, they will do something else that will have little chance of success – they will buy out the ISP’s (the ones they don’t already own). Once these cartels control the ISP’s, we will see more bandwidth restrictions, monitoring, traffic blocking, and possibly even more rules, regulations, taxes, and fees on our fat (data) pipe.
This is where people will begin to take matters into their own hands.
People will begin to buy and use their own equipment to connect to their neighbors and share locally. Many forms of TV entertainment will take a couple of days to fully propagate but it will propagte. Concepts like “PodCasting” are beginning to catch on. The cartels have allowed the genie to escape from the bottle, and their is no putting it back in. The “information highway” will be either a bunch of small roads, or it will be several “super highways”. Either way, the information will continue to flow whether the cartels like it or not. However, the cartels will be the ones choosing what type of information highways we have.
They can either accept the fact that we are customers instead of mindless consumers and adapt to service us, or they can continue on the same course they are on and we can service ourselves. If the cartels shut down the “superhighway” or make it undesireable to travel, people will do what they always done before. They will take the back roads. If the cartels force us take the back ways and make us use Podcasting, FreeWan, CDR’s, DVDR’s, 16 Gig flashdrives and such, they will be the ones left behind. the 16 Gig flashdrives themselves can hold 3 full ripped or full featured DVD’s worth of entertainment, and they are rewritable. Now that mass storage is so cheap, one can drive around town with an entire movie store in his or her car boot. Combine this massive storage with a laptop computer that has wiress networking, and the cartels will have little control over the free flow of information. Yes, these are the good ol’ days.
We are the boss, and the media cartels can either adapt or they can die.
September 20th, 2005 at 12:40 am
Rock on!!
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