On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Landon Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a lengthy discussion about that on NANOG a week or so ago. I > don't claim to understand all facets of multicast but it could be a sort of > way to operate "tv station" type scheduled programming for streaming media. > There's no way to pause, rewind or otherwise seek multicasted media though. > It would be going backwards in terms of what consumers want these days. >
why not permit your users to subscribe to shows/instances, stream them on-demand for viewing later... and leave truly live content (news/sports/etc) as is, with only the ability to pause/rewind? how is this different from broadcast tv today though?
