All things related to multicast

["Michael Hallgren" <>]

> 
> 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. :-)



Ahh, fairly small UK company recently had to shut down and access limit
their 
audience during a football game -- 'cause hitting a mix of network (uplink) 
_and_ server resource limit. Sure, IMHO, an angle of "attack" for advocating
Mcast into the "commercial world?" Thoughts?

Still, operational experience/input required, else "too hard to bet on"
somehow.


mh

> 
> 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
> 
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