Consider that most of the stuff up on YouTube is actually taken from the TV broadcast. That's already illegal, but they don't seem to do anything about it.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, John Vega <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Helen Huntley wrote: > > They're not going to be that way forever. > > The only certainty in technology is that it gets faster and cheaper, > exponentially, always. > > Imagine, then, a day not too far away when fans from their seats will use > their phones to stream onto the Internet a video feed, for free, that > conceivably could approximate the images for which ESPN and CBS have paid > billions of dollars. > > Not hardly. > A lens the size of a pinhole will never create images remotely close to > what an HD camera on the sideline will produce. > > It doesn't matter what technological advances occur; the optics simply > aren't there - and I don't think that their laws have changed since the day > of DaVinci. > > That, plus the fan is much further way the the sideline camera. Something > about the square of the distance. A few hundred feet can be a very big deal > for clarity. > > Now, even if it were possible, think of the size of an HD video feed. A > dual-layer Blu-Ray is 50GB for a 2 hour movie. Let's call a 3 hour football > game 75GB. Someone thinks a fan with a phone can stream a file that size > over the cell network? I'm not even certain that a USB2 cable would offer > that kind of throughput. > > -Zeb > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
