-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Flash TV -- the broadcasters'' nightmare Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:04:50 -0500 From: Bob Frankston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Following up on the idea of "Open Source Telecom" we can think about open source TV. I saw a piece in the NYT today about a new show "Kappa Mikey" (http://www.animationcollective.com/news/news02062006.htm) from The Animation Collective. What makes it interesting is that it is done in Flash. Doing animation in Flash is nothing new nor is the idea of simplified production (as with South Park or even Clutch Cargo nearly half a century ago). Flash content doesn't take much network capacity because it is coded mostly as objects. It avoids the whole the need to compress - it is a compressed format. What is strange is rendering it as video at the head end and then recompressing it as MPEG2 (or MPEG4) for transmission and then doing an analog decompression. This destroys the integrity of the content (AKA signal). This is not just about bypass, this is about simply getting the real signal through. It's a scenario that is far worse for the broadcasters than bypass because it is changing the rules in a way that makes the paths they control a liability not an asset. Bob Frankston http://www.frankston.com <http://www.frankston.com/> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [email protected] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
