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You can’t pause it, you can’t record it, you just have to watch it, like broadcast or cable TV pre-TiVO. And that makes it an ideal commercial medium and one v
by spudlyo 16y ago
You can’t pause it, you can’t record it, you just have to watch it, like broadcast or cable TV pre-TiVO. And that makes it an ideal commercial medium and one very good for preserving intellectual property rights, unlike all those others.
There's just one little problem, consumers don't want to go back to a pre-TiVO world. Emulating broadcast TV on the web isn't going to fly. It reminds me of 'push technology' which ultimately failed because consumers didn't want it.
- physcab 16y agoWell, it might work if you could deliver the content when the consumer wants. Broadcast TV works because I know every half hour something new is beginning or I can look up in the TV Menu when something is going to come on. P2P Broadcasting will always be chaotic in nature and thats the underlying problem. If they could somehow guarantee order and reliability, then they could pull it off.