Re: [httpstreaming] Current Status and Our Goal

[Kathy McEwen <[e-mail]>]

There is a problem with delay over the web if a service provider wants to provide a service with the absolute minimal delays giving consumers of broadcast tv an experience they have come to expect on delivery setup times.  Perhaps physics will preclude us from ever being as fast as delivering all content down a pipe to consumers homes...we may still find ways to be supremely better than 20 seconds or even 1 to 2 seconds. 

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On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:28 PM, "Ali C. Begen (abegen)" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>>> Sure but preparing that content for multicast does not happen right away. If you want adaptive streaming style delivery
>> over the web, you will incur delays. And there is wrong with that.
> 
> Sorry for the missing word. I meant there is *nothing* wrong with that.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kathy McEwen [mailto:[e-mail]]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:48 AM
>> To: Ali C. Begen (abegen)
>> Cc: <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: Re: [httpstreaming] Current Status and Our Goal
>> 
>> There are ways to reduce and eliminate the delays to set up the multicast as well.  Adaptive streaming over the web does not
>> preclude improvements to multicast efficiencies.  Rather, a co operative implementation of adaptive streaming and highly
>> efficient multicasting is perhaps the needed secret sauce... To be made not so secret thru open industry standardization.
> 
> Oh well, I don't disagree with the above except the fact that some things are meant to stay as secret sauce. Furthermore, viewers are becoming more and more non-live content consumers even for the live events (for different reasons).
> 
> -acbegen
> 
>> .../Kathy
>