Comments on: TV’s Future is On Demand http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/24/tvs-future-is-on-demand/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:39:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Crystal http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/24/tvs-future-is-on-demand/comment-page-1/#comment-799513 Crystal Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:35:15 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3018#comment-799513 I thought the same thing until my ISP started talking about limiting bandwidth. I enjoy downloading content from Unbox to my TIVO and when I found out they were going to limit my downloads, I was disheartened. I looked around for ISP's doing the same thing and they are out there. Is this the future of video on the Internet? I thought the same thing until my ISP started talking about limiting bandwidth. I enjoy downloading content from Unbox to my TIVO and when I found out they were going to limit my downloads, I was disheartened. I looked around for ISP’s doing the same thing and they are out there. Is this the future of video on the Internet?

]]> By: automatic_ab http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/24/tvs-future-is-on-demand/comment-page-1/#comment-799500 automatic_ab Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:56:21 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3018#comment-799500 “the increasing popularity of web video and the ‘on demand’ nature of the Internet will force television networks to begin rethinking their delivery methods and eventually upgrade their networks to be able to handle completely on demand services.” Though this may be true, the amount of money that it would take for any of the major networks to put a "dependable", key word here, infrastructure in place that would support "all 110 million households streaming different content on their own schedules" would be astronomical, I think, to say the least; it would also take a really, really long time to do. I'm sure it will be possible and maybe possible now to put such an infrastructure in place, however, based on my perception on how networks think, at the end of the day, the question will be, "Is it in the best interest of the network to put such an infrastructure in place." Oh and just for the record, I love HULU. If it is then the future of TV, count me in. “the increasing popularity of web video and the ‘on demand’ nature of the Internet will force television networks to begin rethinking their delivery methods and eventually upgrade their networks to be able to handle completely on demand services.”

Though this may be true, the amount of money that it would take for any of the major networks to put a “dependable”, key word here, infrastructure in place that would support “all 110 million households streaming different content on their own schedules” would be astronomical, I think, to say the least; it would also take a really, really long time to do. I’m sure it will be possible and maybe possible now to put such an infrastructure in place, however, based on my perception on how networks think, at the end of the day, the question will be, “Is it in the best interest of the network to put such an infrastructure in place.” Oh and just for the record, I love HULU. If it is then the future of TV, count me in.

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