All things related to multicast

["William F. Maton" <>]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, 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

Three years ago, someone in Europe tuned their IP/TV broadcast to a UEFA
Cup match between Feyenoord and some other European team.  Back then,
there was no other way to watch football from Europe except for the token
Manchester United tape delay.

I was glued to the monitor. :-)

So yes, a community of interest that finds it can utilize a multicast
infrastructure will be followed by others into doing the same thing, *and*
find an audience that will demand access to that infrastructure.

> 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

IMDB or Apple ought to be able to do this, since they carry the trailers.
Since they hae worked otu all the legal and MPAA issues, it's just a
matter of extended that ersource to a new market via multicast.  But will
people know about that and ask for access to multicast?

> Can anyone suggest how to go about getting something like this moving?

Approach IMDB and Apple about connecting via mcast.

wfms