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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
EngadgetFanBoi @ Nov 29th 2007 7:46PM
High quality HD streaming seems like its still quite a bit away. Bandwidth is the largest bottleneck as full-quality uncompressed HD feeds are far too large to be streamed. Also, content providers like ABC, NBC, CBS would be wise not to release the HD videos for free as this seems like it would cut into a major source of their revenue. Medium resolution (as they currently have) seems like an ideal compromise for free online streaming as it allows users to get their content for free (and wait through advertisements) or pay extra for higher resolution (with no ads).
Anyways, I use Newsgroups for my HD content on my PC, and it works quite nicely. The problem there for me is HDD space as each HD episode of Heroes (for example) comes to well over a gigabyte (720p). With newsgroups, I average over 1 MB/s, so it takes about 10 minutes to download an average 720p TV show. As speeds increase to 20mbps (Fi-os), this download time would be cut by 2/3 so as to take only 3 minutes to download a 720p version of the average half-our TV show. Did I mention no DRM?
Mike Botros @ Nov 30th 2007 1:10PM
I don't see why the OTA networks shouldn't provide ad-supported HD content steaming online. I've watched part of a lost episode in HD to try out the service, and the 720p is pretty good quality. They provide the same service free over the air if you have an ATSC tuner and antenna; same shows, higher bitrate encoding, ad-supported.
In fact, they better provide this service if they'd rather people go to their website for to watch a missed episode in HD with a few 30 second ads, than bittorrent the episode ad-free. People will get the content they want, if the stations want to make money, they have to supply what people want, more conviently, on demand, with a couple minutes of ads. Better than waiting a couple hours for the episode to bittorrent its way over.