IIRC iMP uses a bittorrent type protocol to share upto 7 day old BBC programs. Sky is also about to introduce a broadband option for live TV viewing which will apparantly be free to premium Sky subscribers.
doesnt blueyonder have a tv service they've been beta testing? edit: its now a fully working tv service http://blueyonder.narrowstep.tv/
RTT Good idea, but I'd hate to see it attempted in the states right now, due to tremendously slower net access. Doesn't Japan have 100Mbit for most people, or something to that effect? Good idea, but knowing how most video streams already have forced ads stuck in place, I think I'll keep not watching TV, or on the rare occasion of there being a show I like, downloading it questionably (TV is still a grey area provided your cable/sat/whatever provides the channel it airs on, right? not flat-out illegal like most movies anyways)
Maybe all 3 letter acronyms should be starred out Anyway, this is intresting, on demand is something thats neat and certainly seems like "the way forward" kind of like how flat rate phone calls were with telecomms. One question though, is do we really want to be tying up our upload bandwidth while we watch stuff? If the cost is reduced as a result of the company not really needing to provide much bandwidth at all then, that'd be intresting, and sure many people would go in for it. But if the customers using their bandwidth for distribution just means the companies get higher profits, well, I'm not so sure people will like that.
my question is, what happens to people on 'limited' Internet plans where they only have a certain amount of data transfer per month? They're not going to be able to stream much TV before their allowance runs out - could this be the end of 'limited' internet service plans? I sure hope so.
I honestly can't wait for this to happen to the US and abroad, but if I'm paying I don't want censorship and I don't want commercials.
I think it would be. I mean, I doubt Japan has "limited" usage net plans, half the countries on 10MBit/s or faster anyway. I'm pretty sure usage limits will have gone the way of the dinosaurs within a few years even in stone-age Britain. This does sound very intresting though, maybe the end of TV as we know it, and onto just buying access rights to an entire catalogue of movies and shows to watch as we please, with content being updated more frequently maybe on the more expensive packages. No more channel surfing hopefully
Seems as though we're almost approaching a point where advertising just doesn't exist/isn't tolerated. My Firefox nails *everything*, even googleads (though I've whitelisted bit, which does a 'get and hide' so impressions count but I don't see them). I personally won't watch anything with ads anymore. I've given up on TV (though more due to crap programming than advertising), and the first thing I do when I buy a movie is rip a copy of it with 'just the movie' (no ads, no menus, no idiotic antipiracy threats). On the rare occasion I read the paper, I never respond to ads in any way at all. Maybe companies are going to start needing to put together desirable products, for a change, not just stupid crap that n00bs buy. there'll never be an end to channel surfing though. Perhaps a decent guide, but I wouldn't expect much beyond that.
Well, I can't wait. I'll have to see if I can get involved in the trial. Don't know if the University would go with it though. Of course if I could get P2P to work here at Uni I probably wouldn't bother.
I cant wait. TV on demand - watch what you want when you want it is definately the way to go in life. It's why BT works so well for everyone (apart from getting the latest shows without having to wait 6 months over here). If something is "released" at 10pm, then you can download it and watch it whenever you have a spare hour: that's FAR better than the current, crappy, watch it when it's on unless you go out of your way to record it.
