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1. People don't have the bandwidth.
2. People don't want to watch TV on their computer.

Claiming March Madness online video requests as a reason internet TV has "grown significantly" is pretty faulty IMHO engadget. How many of those people were sitting at work watching the games on their computer because they had no other way to watch them?]]>Mar 31st 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/31/internet-tycoon-mark-cuban-has-little-faith-in-internet-video/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/31/internet-tycoon-mark-cuban-has-little-faith-in-internet-video/
3. Consumers do not value streaming like they value physical media such as DVDs. Because of this the rights holders wish to maximise profit and will not discount to satisfy the masses. Instead they will litigate and develop new formats to make streaming less viable (hello blu-ray).

Until rights holder can see a non-cannibalistic and as-profitable distribution network with streaming they'll stick with the gravy train of physical media.]]>Mar 31st 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/31/internet-tycoon-mark-cuban-has-little-faith-in-internet-video/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/31/internet-tycoon-mark-cuban-has-little-faith-in-internet-video/
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-514014.html
Mar 15, 1999 12:00:00 AM
AUSTIN, Texas -- Just as MP3 was getting off the ground, the Internet music format is dead, or nearly so.

That, at least, was the pronouncement of Mark Cuban, president of online multimedia aggregation site Broadcast.com (NASDAQ:BCST), at the opening of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival here Sunday.

"MP3 will die. I'm sure of that," Cuban said. "It will be absorbed by RealNetworks (Nasdaq:RNWK) or Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), and it'll become just a notation... No one has the economic incentive to keep it alive."

Responding to the challenge that MP3 already has a strong culture around it, Cuban quipped, "Disco also used to have a strong culture." ...

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