I was at an incentive auction discussion earlier in the week where it was suggested that the broadcasters see a rosy future with ATSC beaming to mobile, but there is still work to be done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC-M/H On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Michael Painter" <tvhaw...@shaka.com> > >> Anyone besides jra remember the last Super Bowl? >> Better this year? Worse? >> I'm sure whomever is listening in would like to know as well. >> >> http://www.multichannel.com/blogs/translation-please/multicast-unicast-and-super-bowl-problem > > Well, in fact, the most recent Massive Failure was the webcast of the > Concert For Boston, on 5/31. They were using a vendor called LiveAlliance.tv, > who did not appear to be farming it out to Limelight or Akamai or Youtube, as > far as I could tell, and they apparently only figured for a scale 5 audience, > and then got more than 500k attempts. > > They got rescued by a vendor named Fast Hockey who are an amateur hockey > webcast aggregator, I gather, and *are* an Akamai client. > > My estimation is that the reason that webcasting will never completely > replace broadcasting is that -- because it is mostly unicast -- its > inherent complexity factor is a) orders of magnitude higher than bcast, and > b) *proportional to the number of viewers*. Like Linux, that doesn't scale. > > And broadcasters are not prone to think of the world in a view where you > have to provide technical support to people just to watch your show. > > "He's at the 40... the 30... the 20... this is gonna be the Super Bowl, > folks... the 10... [buffering]" > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -
