All things related to multicast

[Bob Riddle <>]

one last thing, then I'll be quiet.  Take a look at 
http://people.internet2.edu/~bdr/dvguide.html - one goal of this effort 
is to build a channel guide of content from schools that have their own 
radio and/or TV station.   When the folks at the University of South 
Florida started multicast their jazz radio station - I was surprised at 
the "thank you's" they received from distant alumnus.

John Watters wrote:

> I'll bet that if we had CNN, the Weather Channel, and one or two other
> TV channels with live feeds available I could get a lot of people
> interested on my campus real quick. And, since I control the whole
> campus infrastructure, I can get it pushed out to them -- no hassles
> with departmental NetAdmins, etc. I already have multicast available to
> about 75% of the campus (the part that has been rebuilt in the past 3
> years; the rest is in process & should be finished in 2 more years).
> There is just no demand because there is nothing being multicast that
> anyone cares about.
>
> Trying to guess what the next big app will be is fine, and should
> certainly be considered. But, what we need now is to get an app out
> there that people want now. I suggest that live TV (if it something
> good; CSPAN doesn't count) could be that app. You would think that a
> commercial TV network would see the benefit in allowing their feeds to
> be sent out via multicast without any fee. The advertisers would reach
> more people meaning that the networks could then charge them more for
> their advertising minutes. And, the network would get enormous PR as
> well as a large increase in viewers. Only if we can get several of the
> big players interested would we have enough content to have a real
> impact.
>
> Another idea is to try to get the major movie distribution companies to
> run loops of the movie previews of current releases -- the same 4-5
> minute samples that you see when you go to the theater. There are always
> a fair number of new movies on the street. So, you might be able to get
> 30-60 minutes of programming that could be replayed in an endless loop.
> But, it would have to be changed every several days to reflect new
> releases. If the stuff was out of date, it would be useless. It's free
> advertising for their movies. And it would have some interest to users
> (though not nearly as much as live TV would have).
>
> Can anyone suggest how to go about getting something like this moving?
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