On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
It's not. These people need a pair of rabbit ears and a DVR. CB
