On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Tim Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think that George's POV -- which is also mine -- is that as the >> world shifts, the percentage of video distribution which is >> amenable to multicast, and not well served by unicast, is likely >> to grow, and it would be a Good Idea to be ready for that >> situation already when it arrives. > > Really? If anything, I'd say quite the opposite. Watching media in the > time-slot that someone else has decided on is *so* 20th-century - I can't > remember the last time I sat down to actively watch a programme in its > original transmission slot. (As opposed to having the TV on as background, > e.g. 15 minutes of breakfast news in the morning). I guess multicast to a > recording application (or appliance) might work - but essentially my > requirement is strongly skewed towards video-on-demand. > > I have absolutely zero interest in sport of any kind though - I'm given to > understand there's quite a high demand for live viewing of that. > > Regards, > Tim. > >
Content can still be multicasted to the edge caching servers, for near-real-time updates, that you then may visit/view on-demand with your favorite unicast client Charles
