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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 19:53:09 -0800
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Subject: Re: t-and-f: Jabbour is the future: was Letter...NYC mara... coverage
The answer is BOTH-
put it on the net.
And allow any station who wants to provide over-the-air
Let me first thank Tom for his vote of confidence, and clarify some facts:
1- The Internet has the ability to carry TV-quality video. Last weekend
we webcast high-school soccer in TV-quality (1.5Mbps) in addition to
DSL-speed (384Kbps). Fully one fifth of our viewers enjoyed the TV-quality
I'd much rather webcast
track meets than field hockey and volleyball...
It's really a shame to be running down other low-profile sports; you
know, there are most certainly plenty of people who feel the same way
about tf. Speaking as a big volleyball fan, I'd love to see more
volleyball
My apologies if I misinterpreted what someone posted.
Lee
Lee,
You misunderstood. Kamal only said what he, personally, would rather
webcast. Kamal is a track guy so interested in his favorite sport not so
much the others. He wouldn't mind if other people webcast their own favorite
sports. So
GM cares about a few thousand hard core fans? I doubt it. IF they did,
they'd already fund nationwide coverage.
Ultimately (75 years from now? 100?) all television will be delivered via
broadband, but at a heck of a lot higher bandwidth than today, given the needs
of HDTV.
Companies like
Tom Derderian wrote:
TV is dead. Webcast is the future.
Most webcasts have mediocre picture quality although I have seen a few with
pretty good pictures, assuming that you have a high speed connection. The
poor quality ones are a chore to watch and the low quality really shows
through when the
No offense to Mr. Jabbour, but I'm amazed anyone thinks the time is
remotely near for webcasts to take the place of televised events. The
present technology is borderline bearable, and that's with a [presumably]
relatively miniscule number of people trying to watch. Who really
believes servers
From: Tom Derderian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Tom Derderian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 19:39:05 -
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Subject: t-and-f: Jabbour is the future: was Letter...NYC mara... coverage
The internet is the only hope for our sport. Jabbour is the future. There is
The answer is BOTH-
put it on the net.
And allow any station who wants to provide over-the-air
coverage to do so as well.
Relegate the exclusive contracts to the dustbin of history.
RT
On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 19:05:34 -0800, you wrote:
From: Tom Derderian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Tom
