Da-Chief
07-15-2008, 08:44
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One gets the feeling that if Dallas Mavericks owner and HDNet CEO Mark Cuban wasn't absolutely terrified of broadband video, he wouldn't be constantly ranting (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/76275) about how broadband video is going to fail. His latest blog entry (http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/07/14/the-way-to-save-internet-video/) laments that the high definition video you're getting online from alternative delivery sources (AppleTV, Hulu) usually is far from HD. His solution, is for upstart video delivery operators to partner with existing cable operations, move the video cloud to the node and encode and insert into the traditional video distribution systems.Rather than Hulu sending its video directly across the net to your PC, and let the end user figure out how to watch and distribute from there, it should send it to a box hosted by your cable/telco and possibly even satellite provider, which then transcodes the video and places it on the existing TV distribution system and sends it across a channel branded with your name and the name of the file to your TV.
Cuban goes on to suggest that cable operators should then store all of that content via networked DVRs to eliminate redundant storage. The only problem is, someone in the cable industry should know that efforts to create a networked DVR have already been sued into oblivion (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/86621) by the entertainment industry, which fears a loss of control over their content -- much the same way Cuban fears cable TV competition.
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One gets the feeling that if Dallas Mavericks owner and HDNet CEO Mark Cuban wasn't absolutely terrified of broadband video, he wouldn't be constantly ranting (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/76275) about how broadband video is going to fail. His latest blog entry (http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/07/14/the-way-to-save-internet-video/) laments that the high definition video you're getting online from alternative delivery sources (AppleTV, Hulu) usually is far from HD. His solution, is for upstart video delivery operators to partner with existing cable operations, move the video cloud to the node and encode and insert into the traditional video distribution systems.Rather than Hulu sending its video directly across the net to your PC, and let the end user figure out how to watch and distribute from there, it should send it to a box hosted by your cable/telco and possibly even satellite provider, which then transcodes the video and places it on the existing TV distribution system and sends it across a channel branded with your name and the name of the file to your TV.
Cuban goes on to suggest that cable operators should then store all of that content via networked DVRs to eliminate redundant storage. The only problem is, someone in the cable industry should know that efforts to create a networked DVR have already been sued into oblivion (http://www.corpsman.com/shownews/86621) by the entertainment industry, which fears a loss of control over their content -- much the same way Cuban fears cable TV competition.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Mark-Cuban-Still-Terrified-of-TV-Competition-96106)
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