IPTVision > Beyond broadcasting: IPTV can be local, too
[Digital TV Facts: The Latest | The switch to digital television] In the new world of IPTV, he maintains, local connections””between humans, as well as between wires””can make a world of difference: The Internet television story, even as written here in columns going back as far as the late 1990s, pushed the idea of enabling the aggregation of widely-dispersed viewing audiences, allowing programming to thrive that might not be successful on any local station, much less on the national network. A good example is NerdTV, which wouldn’t attract enough viewers on most PBS stations to even generate a rating, yet when offered as an Internet download, drawing from a global population, makes some pretty good numbers.
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[Recreational Reading] My TV and I: The article’s premise is that: IPTV should be a distributed rather then centralized system, local IPTV sources should be located inside your ISP or broadband provider, and PBS is an organization in a unique position to champion local IPTV distribution. It’s a good read and is the kind of thing that makes me excited to see something like this actually happen.
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[Pulverblog.pulver.com] The Jeff Pulver Blog - Notes, comments and observations: While most of the pulver crew engaged the Internet communications industry North of the Border at VON-Canada, Jonathan Askin co-hosted Day 1 of F2C: Freedom-to-Connect, an event designed to bring leading Internet thought-leaders and innovators to the Beltway to formulate ideas to help shape the legislative and regulatory policy debate currently waging in America, a debate that will likely affect the nature and future of the Internet for decades to come. Our attitude is that, if we do not engage legislators and regulators NOW, the rules will be written by those who do not necessary know or have the best interests of the would-be Internet innovators, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts at heart.
[Dig.csail.mit.edu] Neutrality of the Net | Decentralized Information Group (DIG ...: (In France, for example, I understand that the layers are separated, and my colleague in Paris attributes getting 24Mb/s net, a phone with free international dialing and digital TV for 30euros/month to the resulting competition.)In the US, there have been threats to the concept, and a wide discussion aboutwhat to do. That is why, though I have written and spoken on this many times, I blog about it now.
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