Comments on: Broadcasting via the Net http://www.mikepeel.net/blog/2006/03/18/broadcasting-via-the-net/ Mike Peel's Blog. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:54:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: kei http://www.mikepeel.net/blog/2006/03/18/broadcasting-via-the-net/#comment-22 kei Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:51:20 +0000 http://www.mikepeel.net/blog/2006/03/18/broadcasting-via-the-net/#comment-22 I can see what you're saying. To which I'd like to add a bit. First, there is quite a lot of TV already streamed on the Internet. <a>Musicbrigade</a> has LIVE streamed music video channel. It's a premium pay-per-month service. Similarily, <a href="http://www.jpopsuki.com" rel="nofollow">JPOPsuki</a> also runs a music channel where you can log into the broadcast for LIVE music videos from Japan. Yahoo!'s <a href="http://launch.yahoo.com" rel="nofollow">LAUNCHcast</a> is also an attempt at such a service. The annual Victoria Secrets fashion show is broadcasted on the internet LIVE every year. I can keep going if you want more examples. ^_^ Yes, the problem is bandwidth. And, no, the problem is not so much of the issue of Piracy. Let me explain. Indeed the bandwidth required is currently only possible by high-density cable (:ntl) or by Satellite DTH TV (Sky, DTH - Direct To Home). Essentially, "Sky" is an internet-esqu service. You connect to the Sky network (c.f. ISP) to recieve huge amounts of data in a high capacity direct dowstream. And sticking with Sky, the problem is not so much piracy. On the Sky network with their Sky+ service, which is the only way to record TV off the Sky network (you can't plug Sky into a VCR and record) is to use the Sky+ box. The programming on the Sky+ network comes with an encrypted primer that deletes the recorded programming after a set amount of time. Recording sattelite TV for personal use doesn't violate any copyright laws. I'm sure some techies somewhere have devised a way to record this programming and keep it for longer periods, and now you get DVD-recorders that can record TV output as opposed to transmission input. But that aside, the piracy problem isn't what's keeping Internet LIVE TV. It is just an issue of the bandwidth. As for recording TV from basic aerial transmissions, they are free-view and hence can be recorded and stored without copyright infringement. Copyright infringement only pops up in cases of re-distribution or re-broadcasting without official legal consent. So in a few years time, when the UK too will have a fibre-optic telecom infrastructure, it too will be able to support the 1Gbps bandwidths that some places in Japan are already enjoying. This would enable perfect HDTV streaming of TV over the Internet. Just wait and you'll see - pun intended ;) I can see what you’re saying. To which I’d like to add a bit.

First, there is quite a lot of TV already streamed on the Internet. Musicbrigade has LIVE streamed music video channel. It’s a premium pay-per-month service. Similarily, JPOPsuki also runs a music channel where you can log into the broadcast for LIVE music videos from Japan. Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast is also an attempt at such a service. The annual Victoria Secrets fashion show is broadcasted on the internet LIVE every year. I can keep going if you want more examples. ^_^

Yes, the problem is bandwidth. And, no, the problem is not so much of the issue of Piracy. Let me explain. Indeed the bandwidth required is currently only possible by high-density cable (:ntl) or by Satellite DTH TV (Sky, DTH - Direct To Home). Essentially, “Sky” is an internet-esqu service. You connect to the Sky network (c.f. ISP) to recieve huge amounts of data in a high capacity direct dowstream. And sticking with Sky, the problem is not so much piracy. On the Sky network with their Sky+ service, which is the only way to record TV off the Sky network (you can’t plug Sky into a VCR and record) is to use the Sky+ box. The programming on the Sky+ network comes with an encrypted primer that deletes the recorded programming after a set amount of time. Recording sattelite TV for personal use doesn’t violate any copyright laws. I’m sure some techies somewhere have devised a way to record this programming and keep it for longer periods, and now you get DVD-recorders that can record TV output as opposed to transmission input. But that aside, the piracy problem isn’t what’s keeping Internet LIVE TV. It is just an issue of the bandwidth.

As for recording TV from basic aerial transmissions, they are free-view and hence can be recorded and stored without copyright infringement. Copyright infringement only pops up in cases of re-distribution or re-broadcasting without official legal consent.

So in a few years time, when the UK too will have a fibre-optic telecom infrastructure, it too will be able to support the 1Gbps bandwidths that some places in Japan are already enjoying. This would enable perfect HDTV streaming of TV over the Internet. Just wait and you’ll see - pun intended ;)

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