--- Kevin Atkinson <kevin at atkinson.dhs.org> wrote: > With the reality that copy protection is going to > fail and the fact that > once everyone gets high speed internet connections > entire movies will we > able to be swapped much like music is now, does > content on demand TV have > a future? My theory is that it might because if > people can get the show > they want when they want with little to no cost then > why will the average > joe bother hunting down the video on file sharing > services?
The key phrase there is "little or no cost". Video on demand is something that can't be rolled out at zero cost. The $ required just for the infrastructure and maintenance is too high. The question, I believe, is whether content on demand have an *immediate* future. I somewhat doubt it, but I'm not suitably knowledgable in the technological side (thus my estimates on $$ required could be suspect) to really be considered an authority. > As I side note does anyone here believe that the > Recording Industry does > *not* deserve to die. In their current form they are deserving of little mercy. Should they stop trying to rule the airwaves, packets, and TVs of the world then they might actually have a future performing a valuable service. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
